the WEEKLYPEDIA

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Articles

This week, 101,308 authors made 668,502 changes to 294,854 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. Shooting of Michael Brown (1,871 changes by 152 authors)
2. Ice Bucket Challenge (1,010 changes by 222 authors)
3. Boko Haram (752 changes by 10 authors)
4. List of Ice Bucket Challenge participants (562 changes by 88 authors)
5. 2014–15 FA Cup Qualifying Rounds (557 changes by 8 authors)
6. Robin Williams (514 changes by 97 authors)
7. Anjaan (2014 film) (414 changes by 41 authors)
8. SummerSlam (2014) (384 changes by 76 authors)
9. James Wright Foley (352 changes by 88 authors)
10. Deaths in 2014 (346 changes by 85 authors)
11. 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak (335 changes by 63 authors)
12. 2014 US Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (288 changes by 14 authors)
13. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (278 changes by 65 authors)
14. Shake It Off (Taylor Swift song) (268 changes by 42 authors)
15. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (257 changes by 69 authors)
16. 2014 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (255 changes by 15 authors)
17. 2014 FIVB World Grand Prix (237 changes by 20 authors)
18. War in Donbass (217 changes by 48 authors)
19. 2014 Winston-Salem Open – Singles (217 changes by 21 authors)
20. Zoe Quinn (215 changes by 42 authors)

New Articles

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

1. List of Ice Bucket Challenge participants (562 changes by 88 authors)
2. James Foley (photojournalist) (352 changes by 88 authors)
3. Shake It Off (Taylor Swift song) (268 changes by 42 authors)
4. The Pheasantry (176 changes by 5 authors)
5. 1989 (Taylor Swift album) (175 changes by 35 authors)
6. San Francisco Golden Gaters (164 changes by 1 authors)
7. Al Jami' Eidgah (162 changes by 11 authors)
8. Comparison of gaming platforms (156 changes by 12 authors)
9. MC Opi Australia (140 changes by 8 authors)
10. The Hundred Parishes (129 changes by 6 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Shooting of Michael Brown
2. Robin Williams
3. Zoe Quinn
4. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
5. Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 37,900 registered users and 63,408 unregistered users made 668,502 edits to 294,854 articles
• Unregistered users made 158,791 edits to 75,786 articles
• 37 robots made 51,270 edits to 47,500 articles

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