the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 315)

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

Articles

This week, 158,644 authors made 749,131 changes to 352,555 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (1,928 changes by 376 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States (935 changes by 208 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (817 changes by 132 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (699 changes by 56 authors)
List of members of the United States House of Representatives who served a single term (600 changes by 35 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe (457 changes by 80 authors)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (452 changes by 160 authors)
List of manga published by Shogakukan (440 changes by 2 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Africa (415 changes by 97 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Australia (391 changes by 74 authors)
U.S. state and local government response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic (387 changes by 57 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom (385 changes by 109 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Canada (378 changes by 77 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Croatia (361 changes by 32 authors)
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) (320 changes by 34 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Brazil (318 changes by 64 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Guernsey (315 changes by 9 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Philippines (311 changes by 41 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Republic of Ireland (310 changes by 52 authors)
Khotin Uprising (301 changes by 2 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Timeline of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (289 changes by 18 authors)
List of Philippine public figures who underwent COVID-19 testing (134 changes by 18 authors)
Stay-at-home order (123 changes by 32 authors)
Edward Echyngham (122 changes by 5 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Punjab, India (120 changes by 21 authors)
2020 Zagreb earthquake (115 changes by 38 authors)
The Lady Slavey (113 changes by 4 authors)
3.15.20 (102 changes by 28 authors)
COVID-19 drug development (96 changes by 16 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Northern Ireland (96 changes by 16 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

98,178 registered users and 60,466 unregistered users made 749,131 edits to 352,555 articles
Unregistered users made 146,390 edits to 72,661 articles
43 robots made 56,925 edits to 55,081 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.