the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 205)

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Articles

This week, 114,190 authors made 822,157 changes to 374,398 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2018 Marjory Stonewall Douglas High School shooting (932 changes by 209 authors)
Saratov Airlines Flight 703 (600 changes by 115 authors)
Deaths in 2018 (488 changes by 90 authors)
Indian painting (479 changes by 13 authors)
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster (430 changes by 50 authors)
United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics (340 changes by 33 authors)
2018 Winter Olympics (336 changes by 111 authors)
Death of Colten Boushie (302 changes by 24 authors)
Priya Prakash Varrier (297 changes by 58 authors)
IEBus (262 changes by 3 authors)
2018 Qatar Total Open – Singles (261 changes by 18 authors)
Black Panther (film) (258 changes by 51 authors)
2018 Winter Olympics medal table (254 changes by 51 authors)
List of Bradford Bulls records and statistics (253 changes by 1 authors)
Kaal Bhairav Rahasya (253 changes by 9 authors)
Turkish military operation in Afrin (239 changes by 39 authors)
Germany at the 2018 Winter Olympics (236 changes by 23 authors)
The View (talk show) (211 changes by 4 authors)
Olympic Athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics (205 changes by 32 authors)
Gaon Chart Music Awards (201 changes by 13 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (933 changes by 209 authors)
Saratov Airlines Flight 703 (600 changes by 115 authors)
Death of Colten Boushie (302 changes by 24 authors)
Priya Prakash Varrier (297 changes by 58 authors)
Oru Adaar Love (182 changes by 31 authors)
Outline of underwater diving (177 changes by 3 authors)
Norah Schuster (162 changes by 3 authors)
2018 Hong Kong bus accident (147 changes by 38 authors)
Cyclone Gita (145 changes by 31 authors)
2017–18 Paksi SE season (144 changes by 1 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

39,499 registered users and 74,691 unregistered users made 822,157 edits to 374,398 articles
Unregistered users made 181,694 edits to 87,342 articles
38 robots made 69,347 edits to 66,650 articles

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