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Articles

This week, 106,967 authors made 610,482 changes to 247,358 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. 2014 Canadian Parliament Hill attack (587 changes by 94 authors)
2. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (530 changes by 76 authors)
3. Deaths in 2014 (328 changes by 75 authors)
4. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (318 changes by 47 authors)
5. Development and discovery of SRRI drugs (292 changes by 10 authors)
6. 2014 Hong Kong protests (278 changes by 39 authors)
7. Egg (256 changes by 12 authors)
8. Ebola virus disease (249 changes by 51 authors)
9. Indonesia at the 2014 Asian Para Games (241 changes by 2 authors)
10. 2014 World Series (239 changes by 36 authors)
11. Ebola virus cases in the United States (232 changes by 51 authors)
12. America's Next Top Model (cycle 21) (228 changes by 14 authors)
13. Autumn exhibition (Leningrad, 1962) (218 changes by 1 authors)
14. Hell in a Cell (2014) (199 changes by 31 authors)
15. Zither (199 changes by 2 authors)
16. Ice hotel (198 changes by 8 authors)
17. Diwali (198 changes by 58 authors)
18. Regional Art exhibition (Leningrad, 1980) (188 changes by 1 authors)
19. India at the 2014 Asian Para Games (188 changes by 5 authors)
20. Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2014 (186 changes by 24 authors)

New Articles

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

1. 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa (587 changes by 94 authors)
2. Development and discovery of SSRI drugs (292 changes by 10 authors)
3. Kevin Vickers (164 changes by 41 authors)
4. Luke Cutforth (144 changes by 45 authors)
5. Bacterial leucine transporter (139 changes by 9 authors)
6. John Langshaw (129 changes by 4 authors)
7. Primpol (125 changes by 16 authors)
8. Welcome to New York (song) (123 changes by 18 authors)
9. List of mammals of Oregon (115 changes by 6 authors)
10. Indo-Canadians in British Columbia (108 changes by 3 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Gamergate controversy
2. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
3. Ebola virus outbreak in the United States
4. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
5. Electronic cigarette

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 38,678 registered users and 68,289 unregistered users made 610,482 edits to 247,358 articles
• Unregistered users made 162,042 edits to 79,950 articles
• 34 robots made 24,224 edits to 21,786 articles

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