the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 305)

Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 188,931 authors made 763,880 changes to 336,127 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (1,103 changes by 357 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (455 changes by 85 authors)
National day of mourning (430 changes by 7 authors)
2020 Labour Party leadership election (401 changes by 74 authors)
92nd Academy Awards (384 changes by 150 authors)
List of newspapers in North Carolina (362 changes by 8 authors)
2020 Indonesia Masters (357 changes by 10 authors)
2020 European Men's Handball Championship (353 changes by 41 authors)
Mina Nawe (350 changes by 3 authors)
Neil Peart (316 changes by 159 authors)
2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (303 changes by 20 authors)
2019–20 Australian bushfire season (300 changes by 80 authors)
Megxit (291 changes by 32 authors)
2020 AFC U-23 Championship (289 changes by 45 authors)
List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (280 changes by 14 authors)
Qaboos bin Said Al Said (275 changes by 146 authors)
Bruno Fernandes (footballer, born 1994) (265 changes by 128 authors)
2020 Taal Volcano eruption (264 changes by 78 authors)
2020 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (262 changes by 16 authors)
Art Nouveau furniture (260 changes by 3 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Mina Nawe (350 changes by 3 authors)
2015 Canadian honours (161 changes by 2 authors)
2020 Adelaide International – Women's Singles (150 changes by 23 authors)
2014 Canadian honours (144 changes by 2 authors)
Pattaya bid for the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics (143 changes by 5 authors)
2020 Adelaide International – Men's Singles (139 changes by 19 authors)
Sarah Shearer (133 changes by 6 authors)
Shaheen Bagh protests (131 changes by 35 authors)
2020 ASB Classic – Men's Singles (126 changes by 22 authors)
2019–20 2nd Division League (118 changes by 28 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

114,591 registered users and 74,340 unregistered users made 763,880 edits to 336,127 articles
Unregistered users made 178,485 edits to 84,502 articles
50 robots made 50,203 edits to 46,761 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.