The Wikipedia Power Ranking
A weekly power ranking of the people who set direction in business, technology, and geopolitics — ranked by how hard their Wikipedia biography was fought over that week. Each row carries the rank, the change since last week, and that figure's average rank across the past 52 weeks; 116 people are tracked and the top ten shown. This measures attention on Wikipedia, not power itself: the heavyweights hold the top most weeks, so the story is in the movement.
What does it show?
The order rarely surprises; the jumps do. A figure leaping dozens of places above their 52-week average is being rewritten unusually hard, and that is generally the week's story.
Methodology
Ranks a hand-curated roster of 116 people who set direction in business, technology, and geopolitics by how many times their English Wikipedia biography was edited during the last complete Monday-Sunday UTC week. The roster lives in data/consequential-people.json. The table shows the current top ten with the change in rank since last week and each figure's average rank over the previous 52 weeks; all tracked figures are ranked even though ten are displayed. Ranking is by raw edit volume, so this measures where editorial attention is concentrated, and the heavyweights sit near the top most weeks. The information is in the movement: a figure well above their own 52-week average is being rewritten unusually hard right now. Tied edit counts share a rank rather than receiving an arbitrary order, so a week can show the same rank more than once. History is reconstructed from Wikipedia's revision record rather than accumulated going forward, so the comparison columns are real from the first publication. The 52-week average is taken over however many weeks a biography has existed, which is fewer than 52 for the most recently created pages. Two limits. Edit volume tracks attention and contestation, not importance, wrongdoing, or accuracy — a page can be busy because of a milestone, an award, or a formatting cleanup. And roster membership is an editorial judgment about who matters, so the standings can only report movement among the people they cover.