the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 260)

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Articles

This week, 111,110 authors made 729,693 changes to 314,447 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Deaths in 2019 (497 changes by 91 authors)
Tiki culture (449 changes by 9 authors)
Eric Thorsen (438 changes by 11 authors)
Keith Flint (436 changes by 99 authors)
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (417 changes by 74 authors)
Hormone replacement therapy (390 changes by 5 authors)
Luke Perry (358 changes by 114 authors)
List of rock and roll performers (354 changes by 5 authors)
Abhinandan Varthaman (326 changes by 67 authors)
2019 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles (317 changes by 21 authors)
Detention of Juan Requesens (305 changes by 8 authors)
Anarchism (305 changes by 8 authors)
Captain Marvel (film) (296 changes by 67 authors)
2019 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles (295 changes by 24 authors)
2019 UK Open (262 changes by 20 authors)
The Voice (U.S. season 16) (257 changes by 12 authors)
Alabama/Georgia tornado outbreak of March 3, 2019 (253 changes by 70 authors)
Sex and Candy (236 changes by 3 authors)
Leaving Neverland (234 changes by 55 authors)
SNC-Lavalin affair (225 changes by 26 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2019 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles (317 changes by 21 authors)
2019 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles (295 changes by 24 authors)
Plantation Peter's Hall (196 changes by 4 authors)
Harry B. Neilson (193 changes by 3 authors)
Mein Kampf in English (169 changes by 4 authors)
Wolfgang Baldus (108 changes by 4 authors)
Werner Schneyder (97 changes by 9 authors)
List of songs recorded by Jennifer Love Hewitt (95 changes by 2 authors)
Dennis Lennon (92 changes by 3 authors)
List of Makerere University academics (86 changes by 3 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

40,341 registered users and 70,769 unregistered users made 729,693 edits to 314,447 articles
Unregistered users made 169,631 edits to 84,205 articles
38 robots made 36,017 edits to 33,602 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.