Death and Donald #trump were the most edited Wikipedia pages of 2016
December 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Death wins Wikipedia pretty much every year. Since 2007, the page on everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia listing annual deaths has topped its yearly ranking of most-edited articles. (Pre-2007, that spot was taken by such non-controversial topics as “George W. Bush” and “Creationism.”) This year was no different, and “Deaths in 2016” has been declared the most-edited page of 2016, followed, somewhat predictably, by the article for “Donald Trump.”
Trump and the US election actually took up much of 2016’s most-edited rankings, claiming five of the top 10 positions. But while Trump took the second most-edited spot, the page for “Hillary Clinton” didn’t even crack the top 20. Instead, “List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign…