the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 318)

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

Articles

This week, 168,537 authors made 894,121 changes to 439,503 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Deaths in 2020 (823 changes by 136 authors)
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (658 changes by 164 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in April 2020 (487 changes by 42 authors)
2020 Easter tornado outbreak (365 changes by 67 authors)
Messapic language (338 changes by 10 authors)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (337 changes by 80 authors)
Coronavirus app (329 changes by 48 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States (324 changes by 111 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Serbia (281 changes by 27 authors)
Emergent virus (277 changes by 4 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Michigan (275 changes by 25 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Singapore (272 changes by 42 authors)
Psycho (franchise) (265 changes by 1 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in West Bengal (247 changes by 65 authors)
Tom Moore (soldier) (240 changes by 45 authors)
Timeline of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (232 changes by 8 authors)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Karnataka (230 changes by 11 authors)
Thalaivankottai (228 changes by 4 authors)
Fanny Mendelssohn (219 changes by 7 authors)
Funerary art in Puritan New England (216 changes by 2 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Tom Moore (fundraiser) (240 changes by 45 authors)
Joe Biden sexual assault allegation (213 changes by 36 authors)
Leal Douglas (155 changes by 3 authors)
Face masks during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (141 changes by 19 authors)
Punjabi Christians (136 changes by 2 authors)
Kongō-ji (120 changes by 6 authors)
2018–19 ŠK Slovan Bratislava season (117 changes by 2 authors)
Gothic cathedrals and churches (116 changes by 7 authors)
Viktor Matejka (109 changes by 3 authors)
R (March) v Secretary of State for Health (105 changes by 1 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

105,156 registered users and 63,381 unregistered users made 894,121 edits to 439,503 articles
Unregistered users made 154,487 edits to 79,122 articles
39 robots made 143,563 edits to 140,205 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.