the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 132)

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Articles

This week, 112,850 authors made 739,315 changes to 322,857 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2016 New York and New Jersey bombings (710 changes by 74 authors)
Sino-Roman relations (386 changes by 5 authors)
2016 Uri attack (336 changes by 52 authors)
Deaths in 2016 (334 changes by 69 authors)
Russian legislative election, 2016 (321 changes by 30 authors)
Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics (313 changes by 13 authors)
List of non-Japanese sumo wrestlers (313 changes by 5 authors)
2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup (311 changes by 29 authors)
The Voice (U.S. season 11) (304 changes by 18 authors)
Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott (278 changes by 55 authors)
2016 Japan Super Series (264 changes by 2 authors)
2016 World Cup of Hockey (261 changes by 46 authors)
Dhaka (254 changes by 10 authors)
114th United States Congress (222 changes by 6 authors)
John Graham of Duchray (204 changes by 1 authors)
Legalism (Chinese philosophy) (201 changes by 5 authors)
113th United States Congress (191 changes by 4 authors)
List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees (191 changes by 2 authors)
2016 Atlantic hurricane season (190 changes by 40 authors)
2016 Shanghai Masters (184 changes by 4 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2016 Uri attack (336 changes by 52 authors)
Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott (278 changes by 55 authors)
2016 Minnesota mall stabbing (176 changes by 41 authors)
Shooting of Terence Crutcher (162 changes by 30 authors)
Human Monoculture (161 changes by 10 authors)
Caia Koopman (147 changes by 6 authors)
Post-assault treatment of victims of sexual assault (146 changes by 9 authors)
Eben Gowrie Waterhouse (140 changes by 3 authors)
Domingos Montagner (136 changes by 20 authors)
Bradley Warren Jr. (97 changes by 9 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

35,903 registered users and 76,947 unregistered users made 739,315 edits to 322,857 articles
Unregistered users made 192,535 edits to 92,055 articles
37 robots made 71,478 edits to 69,327 articles

This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.