the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 231)

Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 102,249 authors made 675,875 changes to 291,144 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Ponte Morandi (548 changes by 133 authors)
2018 London Broncos season (488 changes by 4 authors)
Aretha Franklin (435 changes by 129 authors)
Deaths in 2018 (410 changes by 70 authors)
Gothic architecture (398 changes by 7 authors)
2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident (392 changes by 62 authors)
Hurricane Hector (2018) (329 changes by 36 authors)
2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles (310 changes by 19 authors)
List of television reunion films (299 changes by 3 authors)
2018 Westminster attack (270 changes by 32 authors)
2018 Indian Open (264 changes by 4 authors)
2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles (262 changes by 27 authors)
Ida Tarbell (260 changes by 3 authors)
Andrea Ponsi, Architect (240 changes by 9 authors)
Iraq national handball team (239 changes by 6 authors)
The Meg (236 changes by 43 authors)
2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship (231 changes by 3 authors)
Sunday Suspense (231 changes by 3 authors)
2018 Asian Men's Volleyball Cup (227 changes by 8 authors)
2018 Pacific typhoon season (224 changes by 26 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Ponte Morandi (548 changes by 133 authors)
2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident (392 changes by 62 authors)
List of television reunion films (299 changes by 3 authors)
2018 Westminster attack (270 changes by 32 authors)
Andrea Ponsi (240 changes by 9 authors)
James R. Hines Jr. (200 changes by 4 authors)
2018 Kerala floods (148 changes by 38 authors)
Arrest of Juan Requesens (143 changes by 6 authors)
Racism in the UK Conservative Party (115 changes by 5 authors)
2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (109 changes by 10 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

36,166 registered users and 66,083 unregistered users made 675,875 edits to 291,144 articles
Unregistered users made 163,977 edits to 80,099 articles
39 robots made 19,886 edits to 18,534 articles

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