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The Most Edited Wikipedia Articles from Every Year of Its Existence
- Phithagoras 11y agoI find it very amusing that RuneScape made the top 10 list. As a retired fiend, it reminds me just of how popular it was at that time.
- jessriedel 11y agoSeems silly to include lists like "Deaths in year XXXX". This is hardly rigorous anyways.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoFiveThirtyEight has a much more comprehensive take on the same subject: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-edited-wikipedia-pages-over-the-last-15-years/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-edited-wikipedi... In fact, given how FiveThirtyEight describes obtaining the data[1], my guess is that Digg copied the link above. [1] "we asked the site’s operator, the Wikimedia Foundation, for data on the most-changed entries of English-language Wikipedia in each year."
- tgb 11y agoThe most odd-ball of the lot seems to have been edited largely by one person [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geospatial_summary_of_the_High_Peaks/Summits_of_the_Juneau_Icefield&offset=&limit=500&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geospatial_summar...
- Nicholas_C 11y agoInterestingly enough I did a cursory google search of Kirk James Miller and nothing really came up that I noticed. I expected him to be an academic or researcher.
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