the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 227)

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Articles

This week, 100,949 authors made 762,716 changes to 376,253 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Deaths in 2018 (433 changes by 67 authors)
2018 World Lacrosse Championship (412 changes by 13 authors)
West Midlands Serious Crime Squad (388 changes by 3 authors)
Squat Theatre (385 changes by 6 authors)
The Voice Kids (UK series 2) (377 changes by 19 authors)
Tham Luang cave rescue (372 changes by 76 authors)
2018 Russia–United States summit (350 changes by 55 authors)
2018 Nippon Professional Baseball season (327 changes by 1 authors)
Australian forestry and bushfire aviation (314 changes by 2 authors)
George Washington (307 changes by 13 authors)
Ishq Mein Marjawan (293 changes by 33 authors)
2018–19 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-offs (Main Path) (287 changes by 31 authors)
Biblical criticism (269 changes by 3 authors)
2018 Singapore Open (badminton) (247 changes by 6 authors)
Croatia national football team (237 changes by 48 authors)
Tropical cyclones in 2010 (233 changes by 5 authors)
French Gothic architecture (225 changes by 4 authors)
2018 William Jones Cup (220 changes by 10 authors)
Donald Trump baby balloon (216 changes by 32 authors)
2018 Mastung suicide bombing (216 changes by 49 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

13 July 2018 Pakistan bombings (216 changes by 49 authors)
2018–19 Tractor Sazi F.C. season (193 changes by 4 authors)
2018 Athletics World Cup (174 changes by 14 authors)
2018 Bucharest Open – Singles (160 changes by 15 authors)
Brasil Global Tour (147 changes by 4 authors)
Baird Reunion (142 changes by 8 authors)
2018 Ladies Championship Gstaad – Singles (132 changes by 9 authors)
2018 Croatia Open Umag – Singles (126 changes by 11 authors)
2018 European Beach Volleyball Championships (119 changes by 2 authors)
2018 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Singles (110 changes by 11 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

35,897 registered users and 65,052 unregistered users made 762,716 edits to 376,253 articles
Unregistered users made 162,160 edits to 77,828 articles
37 robots made 87,623 edits to 86,193 articles

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