the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 254)

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

Articles

This week, 115,758 authors made 750,639 changes to 312,534 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Deaths in 2019 (480 changes by 93 authors)
2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis (455 changes by 77 authors)
2019 Australian Open (443 changes by 29 authors)
Indigenous Peoples' March (410 changes by 55 authors)
XBIZ Award (387 changes by 4 authors)
Juan Guaidó (371 changes by 78 authors)
Nathan Phillips (activist) (370 changes by 81 authors)
Covington Catholic High School (347 changes by 77 authors)
2019 World Men's Handball Championship (342 changes by 17 authors)
2019 Indonesia Masters (badminton) (332 changes by 7 authors)
91st Academy Awards (324 changes by 70 authors)
Shivakumara Swami (307 changes by 44 authors)
2019 Mexico pipeline explosion (282 changes by 58 authors)
History of Bangladesh (282 changes by 4 authors)
IDBI Bank (272 changes by 14 authors)
2019 in sports (246 changes by 12 authors)
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (245 changes by 65 authors)
Glass (2019 film) (241 changes by 48 authors)
Emiliano Sala (222 changes by 67 authors)
List of paratrooper forces (214 changes by 6 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Indigenous Peoples' March (410 changes by 55 authors)
Nathan Phillips (activist) (370 changes by 81 authors)
2019 Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion (282 changes by 58 authors)
2019 Michigan State Spartans football team (191 changes by 9 authors)
2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu disappearance (177 changes by 39 authors)
List of tragedy films and TV programs (166 changes by 5 authors)
Rock, Paper, Scissors (2013 film) (129 changes by 2 authors)
2019 Indigenous Peoples March Incident (124 changes by 25 authors)
Timeline of European automobiles (104 changes by 3 authors)
2019 Afghan military base attack (97 changes by 38 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

40,265 registered users and 75,493 unregistered users made 750,639 edits to 312,534 articles
Unregistered users made 182,613 edits to 86,112 articles
41 robots made 36,740 edits to 35,452 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.