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Articles

This week, 107,805 authors made 692,131 changes to 278,571 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. Leonard Nimoy (651 changes by 156 authors)
2. Boris Nemtsov (542 changes by 126 authors)
3. India–European Union relations (370 changes by 2 authors)
4. Deaths in 2015 (342 changes by 73 authors)
5. Assassination of Boris Nemtsov (323 changes by 83 authors)
6. Dunghutti (305 changes by 5 authors)
7. Pancho Villa Expedition (296 changes by 2 authors)
8. Second Battle of Tikrit (285 changes by 26 authors)
9. Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies (279 changes by 2 authors)
10. Jodeci (260 changes by 5 authors)
11. Jihadi John (256 changes by 56 authors)
12. Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (255 changes by 6 authors)
13. Avijit Roy (245 changes by 57 authors)
14. List of foreign Norwegian Premier League players (232 changes by 1 authors)
15. English language (214 changes by 12 authors)
16. 2015 in sports (212 changes by 6 authors)
17. List of Irish women writers (211 changes by 1 authors)
18. Pedro de Alvarado (210 changes by 5 authors)
19. Net neutrality (205 changes by 11 authors)
20. List of highest-grossing Telugu films (204 changes by 19 authors)

New Articles

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

1. Second Battle of Tikrit (2015) (285 changes by 26 authors)
2. Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (255 changes by 6 authors)
3. List of Irish women writers (211 changes by 1 authors)
4. Samsung Galaxy S6 (139 changes by 29 authors)
5. Specialty foods (121 changes by 1 authors)
6. Bettina Burr (115 changes by 3 authors)
7. James Ottaway (114 changes by 1 authors)
8. Al-Hasakah offensive (February–March 2015) (110 changes by 12 authors)
9. India's Daughter (98 changes by 18 authors)
10. Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri (95 changes by 11 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Leonard Nimoy
2. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
3. Gamergate controversy
4. General Motors streetcar conspiracy
5. Project for the New American Century

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 40,585 registered users and 67,220 unregistered users made 692,131 edits to 278,571 articles
• Unregistered users made 174,350 edits to 82,292 articles
• 36 robots made 22,842 edits to 20,543 articles

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