the WEEKLYPEDIA

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Articles

This week, 106,717 authors made 608,980 changes to 243,597 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. 2014 Hong Kong protests (581 changes by 42 authors)
2. Ebola virus disease cases in the United States (386 changes by 65 authors)
3. Ebola virus disease (370 changes by 58 authors)
4. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (348 changes by 71 authors)
5. Kailash Satyarthi (319 changes by 101 authors)
6. Malala Yousafzai (319 changes by 107 authors)
7. 2014 Atlantic hurricane season (284 changes by 37 authors)
8. Hell in a Cell (2014) (280 changes by 48 authors)
9. Cyclone Hudhud (278 changes by 39 authors)
10. Same-sex marriage in the United States (277 changes by 54 authors)
11. Deaths in 2014 (261 changes by 62 authors)
12. Florence Nagle (260 changes by 19 authors)
13. Thillana Mohanambal (243 changes by 3 authors)
14. 2014 Russian Grand Prix (242 changes by 21 authors)
15. The X Factor (UK series 11) (240 changes by 23 authors)
16. Mouna Ragam (234 changes by 2 authors)
17. 2014 AFC U-19 Championship (230 changes by 31 authors)
18. 2014 Asian Youth Girls Volleyball Championship (230 changes by 7 authors)
19. 2014 National League Championship Series (230 changes by 10 authors)
20. 2014 Indian Super League season (222 changes by 26 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week.

1. Florence Nagle (260 changes by 19 authors)
2. List of common names for lichen genera (202 changes by 5 authors)
3. Philharmonic Hall, London (131 changes by 2 authors)
4. 2014 Erste Bank Open – Singles (130 changes by 9 authors)
5. George Lattimore (116 changes by 3 authors)
6. 2015 Copa Argentina (105 changes by 6 authors)
7. 2014 Dutch Open Grand Prix (105 changes by 4 authors)
8. Gerald Milton (97 changes by 13 authors)
9. CNN Philippines (93 changes by 11 authors)
10. 2014 Ebola virus disease epidemic timeline (91 changes by 12 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Gamergate controversy
2. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
3. Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
5. Electronic cigarette

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 38,236 registered users and 68,481 unregistered users made 608,980 edits to 243,597 articles
• Unregistered users made 161,682 edits to 78,251 articles
• 34 robots made 27,152 edits to 24,398 articles

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