the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 313)

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Articles

This week, 175,841 authors made 762,473 changes to 341,245 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States (2,057 changes by 514 authors)
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak (1,373 changes by 381 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in March 2020 (817 changes by 147 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe (780 changes by 233 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Sweden (713 changes by 97 authors)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (453 changes by 177 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Romania (442 changes by 93 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Italy (431 changes by 164 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Australia (413 changes by 75 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (395 changes by 80 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in India (393 changes by 103 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Canada (385 changes by 109 authors)
List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign endorsements (379 changes by 41 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Spain (377 changes by 68 authors)
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak by country and territory (373 changes by 169 authors)
Gregorio Cortez (368 changes by 11 authors)
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly (361 changes by 165 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Germany (359 changes by 132 authors)
2020 UK Open (353 changes by 25 authors)
Moldovan resistance during World War II (346 changes by 5 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Black Monday (2020) (341 changes by 137 authors)
List of people with coronavirus disease 2019 (234 changes by 71 authors)
Penguin Popular Classics (232 changes by 2 authors)
2020 Italy coronavirus lockdown (203 changes by 86 authors)
List of events canceled due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (187 changes by 68 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in South Africa (149 changes by 22 authors)
Raw Air 2020 (146 changes by 10 authors)
Black Thursday (2020) (131 changes by 52 authors)
Recursive islands and lakes (128 changes by 9 authors)
Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak on cinema (111 changes by 30 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

108,151 registered users and 67,690 unregistered users made 762,473 edits to 341,245 articles
Unregistered users made 164,440 edits to 76,951 articles
41 robots made 51,269 edits to 49,553 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.