Wikipedia statistics show that 2015 was the year of the movie
2015 was the year of the movie on Wikipedia, with eight film-related articles in the top 25—and one climbing all the way up to No. 3 in the last two months of the year.
Top 20 most-edited pages on Wikipedia in 2015
Death, pop culture, current events ... and one person writing about the Juneau Icefield.
A dark side of comedy: the impact of John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes on Wikipedia
After John Oliver called on the Internet to vandalize the Wikipedia biographies of US congressional representatives, Wikipedia's volunteer editors cleaned up the vandalism.
Top 10 Most Edited Pages on Wikipedia in 2014
Wikipedia is the world’s largest free knowledge resource, but what makes it so unique is its dynamism–it is a living, breathing knowledge network that changes all the time, thanks to hundreds of thousands of editors around the world who keep it growing and current. ... Here are the top 10 most edited pages on English-language Wikipedia in 2014. Many of the topics are to be expected, like Deaths in 2014 or the Israel-Gaza Conflict. (...)
What’s in a name? In the case of ‘wiki’, lots of things.
Anyone who’s been watching the news will have heard about Wikileaks by now. Wikipedia shares the generic “wiki-” prefix in its name, but there’s no relation. Occasionally even major news sources like the BBC get this wrong, which can lead to serious confusion, even when it’s quickly fixed.