the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 122)

Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 100,503 authors made 657,984 changes to 279,374 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2016 shooting of Dallas police officers (1,233 changes by 182 authors)
Theresa May (717 changes by 178 authors)
Big Brother 18 (U.S.) (416 changes by 44 authors)
Andrea Leadsom (414 changes by 64 authors)
Shooting of Philando Castile (399 changes by 62 authors)
Metropolitan Stores (363 changes by 2 authors)
2016 Nice attack (343 changes by 71 authors)
Big Brother Nigeria (342 changes by 1 authors)
Deaths in 2016 (336 changes by 64 authors)
Abdul Sattar Edhi (303 changes by 69 authors)
2016 Asian Junior Men's Volleyball Championship (276 changes by 9 authors)
The Secret Life of Pets (252 changes by 42 authors)
Labour Party (UK) leadership crisis, 2016 (243 changes by 35 authors)
Andy Murray (238 changes by 58 authors)
Portugal national football team (231 changes by 42 authors)
Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016 (230 changes by 40 authors)
Ghostbusters (2016 film) (228 changes by 70 authors)
Burhan Muzaffar Wani (228 changes by 27 authors)
Pokémon GO (223 changes by 60 authors)
2016 Pacific hurricane season (220 changes by 19 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Metropolitan Stores (363 changes by 2 authors)
2016 Nice attack (343 changes by 71 authors)
Andria-Corato train collision (210 changes by 36 authors)
Gateway Belief Model (127 changes by 4 authors)
Street food of Indonesia (125 changes by 4 authors)
Jane Mulvagh (121 changes by 5 authors)
Avior Byron (109 changes by 2 authors)
May ministry (102 changes by 23 authors)
2016 AFF Futsal Club Championship (90 changes by 8 authors)
George Chiang (88 changes by 6 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

33,509 registered users and 66,994 unregistered users made 657,984 edits to 279,374 articles
Unregistered users made 172,048 edits to 80,336 articles
36 robots made 27,424 edits to 25,551 articles

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