the WEEKLYPEDIA

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Articles

This week, 101,850 authors made 648,757 changes to 277,103 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. List of Ice Bucket Challenge participants (1,180 changes by 145 authors)
2. Shooting of Michael Brown (545 changes by 61 authors)
3. 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak (433 changes by 49 authors)
4. FIFA 15 (377 changes by 33 authors)
5. 2014 US Open – Men's Singles (336 changes by 20 authors)
6. James Foley (photojournalist) (334 changes by 57 authors)
7. Reflection (Fifth Harmony album) (330 changes by 74 authors)
8. Five Nights at Freddy's (324 changes by 39 authors)
9. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (322 changes by 56 authors)
10. 2014 US Open – Women's Singles (300 changes by 22 authors)
11. 2014 US Open (tennis) (290 changes by 28 authors)
12. War in Donbass (286 changes by 43 authors)
13. List of active Italian Navy ships (285 changes by 3 authors)
14. Pinoy Big Brother: All In (277 changes by 28 authors)
15. List of Transformers film series characters (276 changes by 9 authors)
16. Los Angeles Metro bus fleet (268 changes by 4 authors)
17. Deaths in 2014 (266 changes by 62 authors)
18. 2014 Pacific hurricane season (265 changes by 34 authors)
19. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (255 changes by 76 authors)
20. 2014–15 CA Osasuna season (254 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

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

1. Greg Quam (234 changes by 12 authors)
2. 2014 Napa earthquake (202 changes by 46 authors)
3. Jihadi John (149 changes by 26 authors)
4. List of Pinoy Big Brother: All In housemates (136 changes by 11 authors)
5. Chicago–Michigan football rivalry (110 changes by 5 authors)
6. Gerald FitzGibbon (Irish lawyer) (110 changes by 2 authors)
7. David A. Randall (106 changes by 1 authors)
8. Magdalene laundries in Ireland (98 changes by 7 authors)
9. Envivio (87 changes by 16 authors)
10. Comedians (Beavis and Butt-head) (78 changes by 7 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Shooting of Michael Brown
2. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
3. War in Donbass
4. James Foley (photojournalist)
5. Reproductive coercion

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 37,961 registered users and 63,889 unregistered users made 648,757 edits to 277,103 articles
• Unregistered users made 159,783 edits to 75,647 articles
• 38 robots made 45,596 edits to 41,660 articles

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