the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 208)

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Articles

This week, 118,646 authors made 757,529 changes to 315,497 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Kenzō Shirai (934 changes by 4 authors)
90th Academy Awards (618 changes by 126 authors)
Deaths in 2018 (597 changes by 111 authors)
Italian general election, 2018 (359 changes by 64 authors)
Ramesses VI (338 changes by 5 authors)
2018 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles (307 changes by 21 authors)
2018 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles (278 changes by 25 authors)
2018 Gibraltar Open (259 changes by 5 authors)
The Voice (U.S. season 14) (258 changes by 12 authors)
The Shape of Water (film) (253 changes by 70 authors)
2018 Pakistan Super League (248 changes by 17 authors)
March 2018 nor'easter (244 changes by 31 authors)
Paul Posluszny (242 changes by 4 authors)
Francis-Barnett (242 changes by 3 authors)
List of Christian Brothers school alumni (237 changes by 1 authors)
Davide Astori (229 changes by 50 authors)
United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 (220 changes by 9 authors)
Sergei Skripal (220 changes by 59 authors)
2018 UK Open (217 changes by 11 authors)
Shivaji (215 changes by 5 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2018 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles (278 changes by 25 authors)
March 2018 nor'easter (244 changes by 31 authors)
French Restoration style (166 changes by 2 authors)
2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault (133 changes by 7 authors)
Abel Crawford (129 changes by 11 authors)
2018 Ouagadougou attack (107 changes by 33 authors)
SS Princess Anne (102 changes by 6 authors)
Oliver Spiteri (98 changes by 3 authors)
Sam Nunberg (98 changes by 34 authors)
United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2018 (94 changes by 17 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

41,175 registered users and 77,471 unregistered users made 757,529 edits to 315,497 articles
Unregistered users made 188,726 edits to 88,824 articles
38 robots made 34,078 edits to 32,745 articles

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