the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 140)

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Articles

This week, 116,987 authors made 870,088 changes to 412,759 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Protests against Donald Trump (1,007 changes by 93 authors)
2016 Northern Ireland Open (714 changes by 5 authors)
UFC 205 (617 changes by 58 authors)
El Coyote (character) (561 changes by 4 authors)
Stephen Bannon (549 changes by 116 authors)
United States presidential election, 2016 (501 changes by 187 authors)
List of United States Presidential firsts (433 changes by 9 authors)
2016 Hanmer Springs earthquake (412 changes by 87 authors)
Indian 500 and 1000 rupee currency demonetisation (410 changes by 81 authors)
Proposed cabinet of Donald Trump (404 changes by 55 authors)
2016 Grand Slam of Darts (344 changes by 13 authors)
Deaths in 2016 (330 changes by 70 authors)
World Chess Championship 2016 (310 changes by 22 authors)
Supermoon (266 changes by 64 authors)
Leonard Cohen (266 changes by 75 authors)
The Voice (U.S. season 11) (256 changes by 16 authors)
International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2016 (255 changes by 58 authors)
Manchán of Mohill (254 changes by 4 authors)
Leon Russell (243 changes by 58 authors)
Survivor Series (2016) (243 changes by 40 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2016 Kaikoura earthquake (412 changes by 87 authors)
Narendra Modi’s demonetisation policy (131 changes by 13 authors)
Amistad memorial (New Haven) (128 changes by 14 authors)
Fake news site (118 changes by 11 authors)
2016 Portland riot (109 changes by 19 authors)
Testosterone (medication) (97 changes by 9 authors)
Multidimensional Signal Reconstruction (96 changes by 14 authors)
Never Hillary (87 changes by 16 authors)
The Saudi Investment Bank (73 changes by 4 authors)
Yukon River Basin (73 changes by 11 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

37,617 registered users and 79,370 unregistered users made 870,088 edits to 412,759 articles
Unregistered users made 198,849 edits to 90,750 articles
48 robots made 178,092 edits to 167,015 articles

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