the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 312)

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Articles

This week, 179,497 authors made 782,660 changes to 356,517 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2019–20 coronavirus outbreak (1,130 changes by 247 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States (865 changes by 224 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Europe (831 changes by 241 authors)
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (561 changes by 174 authors)
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak by country and territory (519 changes by 214 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (502 changes by 88 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in March 2020 (477 changes by 94 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Italy (457 changes by 126 authors)
2020 South Carolina Democratic primary (409 changes by 96 authors)
Andromeda (mythology) (397 changes by 2 authors)
North East Delhi riots (385 changes by 37 authors)
Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–present) (376 changes by 44 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United Kingdom (352 changes by 86 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in February 2020 (347 changes by 66 authors)
Results of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (347 changes by 69 authors)
Education in Greece (338 changes by 16 authors)
List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (317 changes by 56 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Spain (285 changes by 69 authors)
List of Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (268 changes by 92 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Asia (260 changes by 120 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2020 coronavirus outbreak in the Netherlands (194 changes by 52 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Sweden (189 changes by 43 authors)
2020 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team (165 changes by 5 authors)
Charlie Watts (fascist) (154 changes by 3 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in India (152 changes by 57 authors)
2020 Monterrey Open – Singles (139 changes by 26 authors)
March 2020 Tennessee tornado outbreak (131 changes by 32 authors)
John William Lindt (126 changes by 7 authors)
2020 Lyon Open (WTA) – Singles (121 changes by 23 authors)
Charlotte Mardyn (111 changes by 4 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

110,148 registered users and 69,349 unregistered users made 782,660 edits to 356,517 articles
Unregistered users made 168,699 edits to 80,153 articles
45 robots made 77,417 edits to 74,105 articles

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