the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 230)

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Articles

This week, 102,747 authors made 742,186 changes to 349,388 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2018 AFF U-16 Youth Championship (513 changes by 26 authors)
2018 Bangladesh road safety protests (469 changes by 64 authors)
Maduro assassination attempt (466 changes by 43 authors)
August 2018 Lombok earthquake (465 changes by 51 authors)
Deaths in 2018 (423 changes by 71 authors)
2018 European Aquatics Championships (361 changes by 29 authors)
2018 World Open (snooker) (345 changes by 9 authors)
2018 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles (341 changes by 16 authors)
2018 Pacific hurricane season (333 changes by 35 authors)
Squat Theatre (312 changes by 4 authors)
Border control (282 changes by 11 authors)
2018 Rogers Cup – Men's Singles (280 changes by 16 authors)
2018 Vinaphone Cup (266 changes by 8 authors)
2018 Vietnam Open (badminton) (242 changes by 6 authors)
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59 (242 changes by 3 authors)
America's Got Talent (season 13) (228 changes by 22 authors)
2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship (224 changes by 15 authors)
Habar Gidir (217 changes by 6 authors)
Biblical criticism (216 changes by 7 authors)
Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? (214 changes by 39 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Caracas drone explosions (466 changes by 43 authors)
August 2018 Lombok earthquake (465 changes by 51 authors)
2018 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles (341 changes by 16 authors)
2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash (164 changes by 35 authors)
2018 MISC-MIFA season (133 changes by 2 authors)
Evo 2018 (132 changes by 11 authors)
2018 VTV International Women's Volleyball Cup (122 changes by 3 authors)
Shamshernagar, India (117 changes by 7 authors)
Pets of Imran Khan (98 changes by 10 authors)
Julian M. Simpson (91 changes by 4 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

36,425 registered users and 66,322 unregistered users made 742,186 edits to 349,388 articles
Unregistered users made 165,575 edits to 79,344 articles
36 robots made 66,562 edits to 65,088 articles

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