Hot on the heels of Twitter, Facebook, and Google releasing their 2016 retrospectives, the Wikimedia Foundation has now revealed the most-edited Wikipedia articles for 2016.

As with previous years, there are some surprises and some, well, non-surprises in there. As you’d perhaps expect, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and U.S. politics in general featured highly. But the number one most-edited Wikipedia article of this year was actually Deaths in 2016, with 18,230 edits at the time of writing. From David Bowie to Prince, there were quite a few high-profile deaths over the past twelve months, though deaths always feature highly among the most-read and most-edited pages on Wikipedia.

Other big news events that featured highly include the Pulse nightclub terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida (6th) and the Panama Papers (13th). But among the surprise high-ranking inclusions are Bailando 2015, which is the tenth season of an Argentine TV dance competition, and Beverly Gray, a series of 26 mystery novels published between 1934 and 1955.

There’s actually an interesting little sub-story to the article that made it into 20th place. Ahead of the launch of Loving Vincent, a “painted” animated film about the life of Vincent van Gogh, which debuts next year, four Wikipedia editors worked together to rewrite the Wikipedia page on van Gogh himself. The article was subsequently promoted to “featured” status, which is attained after being reviewed by the Wikipedia community at large.

The number of edits they made together is what elevated the Vincent van Gogh article into the top 20 list. One of the collaborators, who goes by the pseudonym Modernist, said:

[van Gogh was] historically one of the most intense, psychologically coherent, intuitive, emotional, expressive, and aesthetic visual communicators in the history of western painting. An artist misunderstood for decades, constantly being misinterpreted, re-interpreted, studied, re-studied, yet seemingly always escaping a clear understanding of his true nature. Van Gogh is both compelling and somewhat mysterious, and yet he is considered universally to be a great artist; certainly worth studying, reading about and writing about as well.

At any rate, here is the full top 20 most-edited articles of 2016.

1.Deaths in 2016 (18,230 edits)

2.Donald Trump (8,933)

3.List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsements (6,527)

4.United States presidential election, 2016 (6,162)

5.Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 (5,715)

6.2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (5,540)

7.Bailando 2015 (5,342)

8.Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 (5,328)

9.2016 in sports (5,277)

10.2016 in South Korean music (5,074)

11.Beverly Gray (4,957)

12.Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election (4,743)

13.Panama Papers (4,659)

14.2016 in Philippine television (4,600)

15.2016 Pacific typhoon season (4,244)

16.2016 Atlantic hurricane season (3,874)

17.Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 (3,736)

18.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (3,593)

19.The Life of Pablo (3,574)

20.Vincent van Gogh (3,551)

在Twitter、Facebook和谷歌（Google）发布2016年的回顾之后，维基媒体基金会（Wikimedia Foundation）也公布了2016年被编辑次数最多的维基百科词条。

正如前几年一样，有些词条的上榜令人惊讶，另一些则显得顺理成章。你或许也能猜到，“唐纳德·特朗普”、“希拉里·克林顿”和“美国政治”肯定有很高的排名。不过今年被编辑次数最多的维基词条实际上是“2016年逝世者”，自创立至今已经被修改过18,230次。从大卫·鲍伊到普林斯，过去12个月中逝世的名人不在少数，不过死亡在维基百科中一直都是阅读量和编辑数排名靠前的话题。

其他上榜的重大新闻事件包括佛罗里达州奥兰多市的夜总会Pulse遭到恐怖分子袭击（排名第6）和巴拿马文件泄露（排名第13）。不过“Bailando 2015”和“Beverly Gray”名列前茅却有些出乎意料。前者是阿根廷一个电视舞蹈大赛的第十季，后者是1934至1955年间出版的26本系列神秘小说。

还有一个词条，是因为一个有趣的小故事而排到前20的。展现文森特·梵高人生的油画动画电影《致梵高的爱》（Loving Vincent）将在明年上映。在此之前，四位维基百科的编辑合作改写了梵高词条的维基页面。随后，这个词条得到了整个维基用户群的关注，并被推荐为“特色条目”。

这些用户对文森特·梵高词条的编辑，也让它进入了这份榜单的前20。一位网名为Modernist的贡献者表示：

（梵高是）西方绘画史上最热情、精神最一致、直觉最敏锐、感情最丰富、表达最有力、美学眼光最高的视觉传达大师之一。这位艺术家遭遇了数十年的误读，他不断被曲解、再理解、研究、再研究，但我们似乎仍未确切了解他的真实本性。梵高既引人注目，又有几分神秘色彩。他是全世界公认伟大的艺术家，绝对值得研究、阅读并为之写些什么。

总之，以下是2016年被编辑次数最多的20个词条。

1. 2016年逝世者（Deaths in 2016，18,230次）

2. 唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump，8,933次）

3. 希拉里·克林顿总统竞选支持名单（List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsements，6,527次）

4. 2016年美国总统大选（United States presidential election, 2016，6,162次）

5. 2016年共和党总统预选（Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 ，5,715次）

6. 2016年奥兰多夜总会枪击案（2016 Orlando nightclub shooting，5,540次）

7. Bailando 2015（5,342次）

8. 唐纳德·特朗普总统竞选支持名单（Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements, 2016，5,328次）

9. 2016年全球体育赛事（2016 in sports，5,277次）

10. 2016年韩国音乐（2016 in South Korean music，5,074次）

11. Beverly Gray（4,957次）

12. 美国总统大选各州民意调查（Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election，4,743次）

13. 巴拿马文件（Panama Papers，4,659次）

14. 2016年菲律宾电视节目（2016 in Philippine television，4,600次）

15. 2016年太平洋飓风季（2016 Pacific typhoon season，4,244次）

16. 2016年大西洋飓风季（2016 Atlantic hurricane season，3,874次）

17. 2016年民主党总统预选（Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016，5,715次）

18. 蝙蝠侠大战超人：正义黎明（Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice，3,593次）

19. The Life of Pablo（坎耶·韦斯特最新专辑，3,574次）

20. 文森特·梵高（Vincent van Gogh，3,551次）（财富中文网）

作者：Paul Sawers

译者：严匡正