the WEEKLYPEDIA

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Articles

This week, 88,134 authors made 619,905 changes to 261,224 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. AirAsia Flight 8501 (1,443 changes by 282 authors)
2. List of United States post office murals (392 changes by 4 authors)
3. Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck) (358 changes by 7 authors)
4. 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (341 changes by 26 authors)
5. Shooting of Michael Brown (309 changes by 29 authors)
6. The Interview (2014 film) (309 changes by 78 authors)
7. Royal Rumble (2015) (295 changes by 44 authors)
8. Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (284 changes by 5 authors)
9. Deaths in 2014 (276 changes by 60 authors)
10. List of Delta Upsilon brothers (272 changes by 2 authors)
11. Suicide of Leelah Alcorn (270 changes by 59 authors)
12. MS Norman Atlantic (261 changes by 59 authors)
13. 2014 (235 changes by 56 authors)
14. 2014–15 Big Bash League season (230 changes by 8 authors)
15. PK (film) (208 changes by 44 authors)
16. 2014 Pacific typhoon season (207 changes by 13 authors)
17. Paul Ogorzow (204 changes by 2 authors)
18. Soviet Russia (exhibition, 1960) (203 changes by 1 authors)
19. Daniel Pabst (199 changes by 5 authors)
20. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (181 changes by 31 authors)

New Articles

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

1. Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (1,443 changes by 282 authors)
2. Suicide of Leelah Alcorn (270 changes by 59 authors)
3. Cassius Clement Stearns (171 changes by 6 authors)
4. Queensland Department of Public Works (132 changes by 3 authors)
5. Robert Echlin (British Army officer) (128 changes by 1 authors)
6. Ebola virus disease in the United Kingdom (124 changes by 11 authors)
7. Cross-country skiing trail (123 changes by 3 authors)
8. Mary Brodrick (114 changes by 3 authors)
9. List of football clubs in South Yorkshire (103 changes by 2 authors)
10. 2014 Shanghai stampede (93 changes by 29 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Gamergate controversy
2. Shooting of Michael Brown
3. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
4. Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
5. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 34,593 registered users and 53,541 unregistered users made 619,905 edits to 261,224 articles
• Unregistered users made 147,232 edits to 71,431 articles
• 38 robots made 29,839 edits to 25,888 articles

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