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Articles

This week, 107,619 authors made 675,668 changes to 286,049 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

1. Deaths in 2018 (477 changes by 82 authors)
2. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake (428 changes by 101 authors)
3. 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship (422 changes by 22 authors)
4. 2018 Pacific hurricane season (406 changes by 50 authors)
5. Donna Strickland (369 changes by 101 authors)
6. 2018 Asia Cup Final (336 changes by 29 authors)
7. List of mountains in Ireland (323 changes by 5 authors)
8. Brett Kavanaugh (322 changes by 95 authors)
9. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 27) (296 changes by 17 authors)
10. 2018 European Masters (276 changes by 12 authors)
11. 2018 London Broncos season (275 changes by 5 authors)
12. Government Palace (Peru) (264 changes by 1 authors)
13. Tétouan (243 changes by 2 authors)
14. Strictly Come Dancing (series 16) (239 changes by 15 authors)
15. 2018 China Open – Women's Singles (239 changes by 19 authors)
16. 2018 Pacific typhoon season (237 changes by 34 authors)
17. Charles Aznavour (236 changes by 66 authors)
18. 2018 Chinese Taipei Open (badminton) (234 changes by 7 authors)
19. Thugs of Hindostan (229 changes by 18 authors)
20. Govindappa Venkataswamy (220 changes by 30 authors)

New Articles

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

1. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami (428 changes by 101 authors)
2. Donna Strickland (369 changes by 101 authors)
3. Alessandro Strumia (206 changes by 35 authors)
4. John Arnold (cinematographer) (187 changes by 2 authors)
5. Sabumon Abdusamad (146 changes by 13 authors)
6. Berlin-Jerusalem (127 changes by 3 authors)
7. 2018 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Singles (101 changes by 13 authors)
8. George P. Smith (chemist) (100 changes by 24 authors)
9. United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (100 changes by 32 authors)
10. 2018 China Open – Men's Singles (97 changes by 9 authors)

Discussions

The most active discussions:

1. Brett Kavanaugh
2. Christine Blasey Ford
3. Donna Strickland
4. List of common misconceptions
5. AR-15 style rifle

Stats

A few numbers from last week:

• 37,500 registered users and 70,119 unregistered users made 675,668 edits to 286,049 articles
• Unregistered users made 167,327 edits to 81,081 articles
• 36 robots made 32,307 edits to 31,155 articles

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