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Articles

This week, 106,257 authors made 674,334 changes to 272,041 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. Charlie Hebdo shooting (2,294 changes by 302 authors)
2. Deaths in 2015 (368 changes by 80 authors)
3. Republican marches (346 changes by 92 authors)
4. Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies (334 changes by 2 authors)
5. 2015 AFC Asian Cup (327 changes by 52 authors)
6. List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network Arabic (314 changes by 4 authors)
7. Celebrity Big Brother 15 (247 changes by 22 authors)
8. 2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (236 changes by 14 authors)
9. List of Old Wykehamists (235 changes by 3 authors)
10. Yellow Peril (228 changes by 4 authors)
11. Junior Malanda (228 changes by 52 authors)
12. Charlie Hebdo (221 changes by 72 authors)
13. 87th Academy Awards (213 changes by 42 authors)
14. 2015 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold (207 changes by 1 authors)
15. 2014–15 NFL playoffs (191 changes by 25 authors)
16. Francesco Rosi (189 changes by 15 authors)
17. Hypercacher kosher supermarket attack (187 changes by 42 authors)
18. American Sniper (film) (185 changes by 31 authors)
19. Henry Docwra, 1st Baron Docwra of Culmore (180 changes by 2 authors)
20. Kulal/Moolya/Kumbhara (175 changes by 7 authors)

New Articles

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

1. Republican marches (346 changes by 92 authors)
2. 2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying (236 changes by 14 authors)
3. Porte de Vincennes siege (187 changes by 42 authors)
4. Theodor Fischer (art dealer) (146 changes by 1 authors)
5. Goethe in the Roman Campagna (143 changes by 7 authors)
6. Amedy Coulibaly (139 changes by 31 authors)
7. House of creativity «Staraya Ladoga» (131 changes by 5 authors)
8. Denis Periša (119 changes by 7 authors)
9. Nikita Aria (114 changes by 8 authors)
10. 2015 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying (112 changes by 10 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Charlie Hebdo shooting
2. Gamergate controversy
3. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
4. Shooting of Michael Brown
5. Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 38,572 registered users and 67,685 unregistered users made 674,334 edits to 272,041 articles
• Unregistered users made 172,516 edits to 81,017 articles
• 36 robots made 35,043 edits to 31,579 articles

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