Think back on the past year… what stands out? Donald Trump, probably. And death, a whole lot of death.
We lost Prince and David Bowie, Florence Henderson and Zsa Zsa Gabor, and a whole lot of other famous people, as you can see from the "Deaths in 2016" Wikipedia entry, which just so happens to be the most active article on the free online encyclopedia this year.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, on Tuesday released a recap of activity on the site this year, and said that "Deaths in 2016" was "by far the most-edited" entry, receiving some 18,230 tweaks. That's more than double the amount of edits made to the second most active article of the year: Donald Trump's Wikipedia page, which racked up 8,933 changes in 2016.
"2016 was a year of transition and change in much of the western world. Some events could be described as tragedy, others as cause for celebration," the Wikimedia Foundation's Ed Erhart and Samantha Lien wrote in a blog post. "Regardless of how you feel about this year, Wikipedia editors were there to help you understand what happened in 2016 and then some."
Without further ado, here's the top 20 the most-edited English Wikipedia articles of 2016, straight from the source:
- Deaths in 2016 (18,230 edits)
- Donald Trump (8,933)
- List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsements (6,527)
- United States presidential election, 2016 (6,162)
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 (5,715)
- 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (5,540)
- Bailando 2015 (5,342)
- Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 (5,328)
- 2016 in sports (5,277)
- 2016 in South Korean music (5,074)
- Beverly Gray (4,957)
- Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election (4,743)
- Panama Papers (4,659)
- 2016 in Philippine television (4,600)
- 2016 Pacific typhoon season (4,244)
- 2016 Atlantic hurricane season (3,874)
- Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 (3,736)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (3,593)
- The Life of Pablo (3,574)
- Vincent van Gogh (3,551)