the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 248)

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

Articles

This week, 110,663 authors made 759,871 changes to 342,985 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2018 Strasbourg shooting (677 changes by 93 authors)
YouTube Rewind (629 changes by 158 authors)
List of most-disliked YouTube videos (557 changes by 108 authors)
2018 Scottish Open (snooker) (512 changes by 15 authors)
2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards (368 changes by 22 authors)
Deaths in 2018 (351 changes by 75 authors)
Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece (340 changes by 3 authors)
Flippin, Kentucky (335 changes by 6 authors)
Yellow vests movement (284 changes by 80 authors)
History of Tampa, Florida (279 changes by 2 authors)
The Voice (U.S. season 15) (260 changes by 24 authors)
2018 BWF World Tour Finals (249 changes by 9 authors)
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup (242 changes by 17 authors)
2.0 (film) (233 changes by 62 authors)
Dana Brooke (232 changes by 2 authors)
George Washington (228 changes by 14 authors)
Temple name (225 changes by 1 authors)
Burton Ale (214 changes by 2 authors)
Northwest Territory (208 changes by 6 authors)
Kendal Briles (206 changes by 15 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2018 Strasbourg attack (677 changes by 93 authors)
Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) (167 changes by 3 authors)
2018–19 Paksi SE season (143 changes by 2 authors)
John R. Seale (135 changes by 6 authors)
Keep growing detroit (119 changes by 8 authors)
Death of Grace Millane (115 changes by 22 authors)
Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War (112 changes by 5 authors)
Miracle In Miami (2018) (110 changes by 25 authors)
Results of the 2018 Victorian state election (Legislative Council) (95 changes by 4 authors)
Turkish Military Cemetery (91 changes by 3 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

39,346 registered users and 71,317 unregistered users made 759,871 edits to 342,985 articles
Unregistered users made 171,834 edits to 84,950 articles
35 robots made 58,449 edits to 51,839 articles

This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.