the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 303)

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Articles

This week, 161,250 authors made 887,036 changes to 490,303 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (396 changes by 42 authors)
Deaths in 2019 (380 changes by 80 authors)
Citizenship Amendment Act protests (375 changes by 50 authors)
2018 local electoral calendar (254 changes by 2 authors)
Günther Prien (248 changes by 6 authors)
Tina Jaxa (241 changes by 3 authors)
2020 (241 changes by 96 authors)
2020 Baghdad International Airport attack (235 changes by 65 authors)
Nachman Aronszajn (227 changes by 10 authors)
The Mandalorian (222 changes by 105 authors)
Don Imus (215 changes by 84 authors)
2019–20 Australian bushfire season (210 changes by 80 authors)
Bek Air Flight 2100 (207 changes by 102 authors)
2020 PDC World Darts Championship (200 changes by 67 authors)
Efim Naumovich Gorodetskii (191 changes by 3 authors)
Qasem Soleimani (191 changes by 82 authors)
Arkadiĭ Lavrovich Sidorov (190 changes by 8 authors)
Media coverage of Bernie Sanders (187 changes by 17 authors)
2019–20 Bangladesh Federation Cup (185 changes by 9 authors)
2019 Monsey antisemitic attack (185 changes by 38 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Tina Jaxa (241 changes by 3 authors)
2020 Baghdad International Airport attack (235 changes by 65 authors)
Efim Naumovich Gorodetskii (192 changes by 3 authors)
Arkadiĭ Sidorov (190 changes by 8 authors)
2019 Monsey Hanukkah stabbing (185 changes by 38 authors)
Master (2020 film) (153 changes by 69 authors)
2019 United States bombing of Kata'ib Hizbollah (116 changes by 25 authors)
2019 attack on the United States embassy in Iraq (112 changes by 32 authors)
December 2019 Mogadishu bombing (111 changes by 27 authors)
Homer Tien (106 changes by 2 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

98,660 registered users and 62,590 unregistered users made 887,036 edits to 490,303 articles
Unregistered users made 156,351 edits to 75,682 articles
41 robots made 214,463 edits to 211,893 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.