Get Weekly Updates of the Most Edited Articles on Wikipedia
With so many competing media outlets – between the pandemic, police violence against people of color, the upcoming elections and an especially active hurricane season – this is very important. about what is happening in the world. If you’ve found yourself scrolling a lot in the past few months, there is another way to get rid of this itch associated with the abundance of detailed information. It comes in the form of a weekly newsletter that highlights hot topics on Wikipedia. Here’s what you need to know.
How to subscribe to The Weeklypedia
As you probably guessed from this headline, the newsletter is called The Weeklypedia and, again, the good people from Recomendo were the ones who informed us. You can subscribe to the weekly newsletter here , although anyone can access this week’s review (or any previous issues ) by visiting the site. The newsletter is also available in 20 languages other than English, and looks like you could submit a request in another language if yours is not currently on the list.
Each week, you will receive an email listing the top 20 Wikipedia articles with the most revisions, the 10 most actively edited new articles over the past week, and the most active discussions on Wikipedia. So no, this is not the same as reading the news, but it gives an interesting insight into what worries people around the world enough to add or edit Wikipedia.
Examples of what’s covered
Here are some of what’s in this week’s newsletter :
Top 5 Articles with Most Changes
- Republican Congress 2020 ( 951 changes from 128 authors)
- 2020 Atlantic hurricane season ( 792 revisions by 170 authors)
- Tropical Storm Laura (2020) ( 789 changes by 145 authors)
- Deaths in 2020 ( 496 changes by 87 authors)
- Timeline of Coronation Street ( 470 changes by 2 authors)
Top 5 Most Actively Edited Articles Created in the Last Week
- Hurricane Laura (789 changes by 145 authors)
- Filming Jacob Blake (467 changes from 126 contributors)
- Miron Sher (196 changes by 6 authors)
- Results of the 2020 Northern Territory General Election (182 changes by 14 authors)
- Ice Cream (song by Blackpink and Selena Gomez) (162 changes from 66 authors)
Top 5 most active discussions
Have you woken up this morning hoping to learn more about the longtime British evening soap opera Coronation Street? Probably no. And of course, all the usual caveats of Wikipedia apply (anyone can edit it, check the original links / links, etc.), and this is not a way to keep up with the latest news. But it’s an interesting insight into what the world is thinking (or at least the minds of those who use and edit Wikipedia).