the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 309)

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Articles

This week, 183,981 authors made 805,052 changes to 377,040 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak (1,053 changes by 229 authors)
2020 Welsh Open (snooker) (567 changes by 19 authors)
2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak by country and territory (556 changes by 128 authors)
2020 Irish general election (522 changes by 156 authors)
Parasite (2019 film) (519 changes by 273 authors)
2020 Korat shooting (517 changes by 159 authors)
2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary (493 changes by 121 authors)
92nd Academy Awards (413 changes by 140 authors)
Sonic the Hedgehog (film) (381 changes by 165 authors)
Members of the 33rd Dáil (367 changes by 39 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (365 changes by 67 authors)
2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election (340 changes by 121 authors)
The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (329 changes by 1 authors)
Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball (316 changes by 2 authors)
2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses (304 changes by 76 authors)
2019 novel coronavirus (294 changes by 70 authors)
UFC 247 (283 changes by 96 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in February 2020 (281 changes by 55 authors)
Orson Bean (258 changes by 89 authors)
Germanic peoples (249 changes by 13 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2020 Welsh Open (snooker) (567 changes by 19 authors)
2020 Nakhon Ratchasima shooting (517 changes by 159 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in February 2020 (281 changes by 55 authors)
Issa Musse (146 changes by 11 authors)
Motorway 7 (141 changes by 2 authors)
2020 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy – Singles (122 changes by 16 authors)
Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union (120 changes by 5 authors)
2020 Argentina Open – Singles (113 changes by 20 authors)
2020 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Singles (111 changes by 20 authors)
2019 European Cricket League (109 changes by 8 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

112,158 registered users and 71,823 unregistered users made 805,052 edits to 377,040 articles
Unregistered users made 174,233 edits to 84,117 articles
46 robots made 89,285 edits to 86,225 articles

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