"There are the sports tournaments and reality TV shows that demand moment-to-moment updates. (Last week, there were 268 edits on " 2026 Malaysia Open (badminton)" and 605 on "Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 9.") There are the biographies of people whom someone has decided deserve memorializing. (Last week, user Mary Mark Ockerbloom created the article on Quaker abolitionist John Vickers and edited it 161 times."
"But the most common Wikipedia genre represented each week is news. When something big happens in the world, some Wikipedian will start an article - and within minutes, editors will descend on it, using news articles as raw material to construct something encyclopedic. Here's last week's top 10 - it's awfully close to a summary of the week's front pages:"
Weekly lists of the most-edited Wikipedia pages reveal recurring categories and the volunteer labor behind them. Highly specific lists are often managed intensively by a few dedicated editors. Sports tournaments and reality-TV pages receive frequent, real-time updates. New biographies are created and repeatedly edited by users working to memorialize individuals. The most common category each week is news, where editors quickly convert reportage into encyclopedic entries. Major events and anniversaries, including Wikipedia's own 25th anniversary and its first edit, generate concentrated editing activity and public interest.
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