the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 334)

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

Articles

This week, 168,159 authors made 775,362 changes to 336,474 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2020 Beirut port explosion (1,562 changes by 358 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (758 changes by 104 authors)
Hurricane Isaias (717 changes by 157 authors)
2020 World Snooker Championship (574 changes by 64 authors)
2020 Atlantic hurricane season (395 changes by 94 authors)
SK Slavia Prague (363 changes by 13 authors)
Folklore (Taylor Swift album) (339 changes by 56 authors)
List of women writers (301 changes by 3 authors)
Minkowski functional (300 changes by 1 authors)
Housejoy (269 changes by 7 authors)
2020 Pacific typhoon season (257 changes by 47 authors)
Borneo Airways Limited (245 changes by 3 authors)
False pregnancy (244 changes by 10 authors)
Hypoestrogenism (240 changes by 11 authors)
The Umbrella Academy (TV series) (228 changes by 96 authors)
The Lord of the Rings (213 changes by 9 authors)
B7 (album) (211 changes by 23 authors)
Wilford Brimley (210 changes by 113 authors)
Parler (199 changes by 17 authors)
Naya Rivera (198 changes by 28 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2020 Beirut explosions (1,562 changes by 358 authors)
2020 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo – Singles (188 changes by 26 authors)
2008 Canadian honours (154 changes by 2 authors)
Law firms of the Netherlands (141 changes by 3 authors)
Maria Emhart (137 changes by 3 authors)
2020–21 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round (134 changes by 15 authors)
MV Rhosus (126 changes by 40 authors)
Charilaos Trikoupis Messolonghi B.C. (110 changes by 3 authors)
2010 Canadian honours (105 changes by 1 authors)
GPT-3 (language model) (102 changes by 10 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

103,272 registered users and 64,887 unregistered users made 775,362 edits to 336,474 articles
Unregistered users made 165,381 edits to 80,273 articles
43 robots made 38,627 edits to 37,074 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.