the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 121)

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Articles

This week, 105,048 authors made 739,476 changes to 333,289 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016 (468 changes by 67 authors)
Australian federal election, 2016 (447 changes by 67 authors)
2016 Wimbledon Championships (435 changes by 35 authors)
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers (404 changes by 58 authors)
Bailando 2015 (398 changes by 2 authors)
Deaths in 2016 (394 changes by 73 authors)
2016 FIVB Volleyball World League (370 changes by 16 authors)
List of black-and-white films that have been colorized (360 changes by 2 authors)
2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (335 changes by 57 authors)
Shooting of Alton Sterling (329 changes by 54 authors)
Andrea Leadsom (326 changes by 69 authors)
Elie Wiesel (315 changes by 80 authors)
List of 2016–17 NBA season transactions (302 changes by 18 authors)
Robert Black (serial killer) (295 changes by 8 authors)
Monument of Graf Vorontsov, Odessa (294 changes by 7 authors)
Juno (spacecraft) (292 changes by 96 authors)
2016 Pacific hurricane season (282 changes by 27 authors)
2016–17 NHL transactions (276 changes by 8 authors)
Caroline Aherne (267 changes by 48 authors)
2016 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles (253 changes by 33 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2016 shooting of Dallas police officers (404 changes by 58 authors)
Shooting of Alton Sterling (329 changes by 54 authors)
Statue of Graf Vorontsov, Odessa (294 changes by 7 authors)
July 2016 Baghdad bombings (223 changes by 65 authors)
2016 Ramadan attacks (202 changes by 17 authors)
Shooting of Philando Castile (188 changes by 38 authors)
Typhoon Nepartak (2016) (174 changes by 20 authors)
Aftermath of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 (144 changes by 34 authors)
Mellor, Meigs & Howe (135 changes by 4 authors)
2016 Medina suicide bombing (129 changes by 24 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

34,391 registered users and 70,657 unregistered users made 739,476 edits to 333,289 articles
Unregistered users made 179,183 edits to 81,875 articles
37 robots made 64,597 edits to 59,096 articles

This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.