the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 335)

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Articles

This week, 167,681 authors made 800,588 changes to 365,083 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

Air India Express Flight 1344 (859 changes by 238 authors)
2020 Beirut explosions (827 changes by 197 authors)
Soribada Best K-Music Awards (466 changes by 73 authors)
2020 Belarusian protests (457 changes by 134 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (448 changes by 77 authors)
Kamala Harris (435 changes by 157 authors)
2020 World Snooker Championship (422 changes by 56 authors)
2020 Belarusian presidential election (350 changes by 130 authors)
2020 Democratic National Convention (327 changes by 46 authors)
2020 Pacific typhoon season (292 changes by 49 authors)
2020 Bangalore riots (284 changes by 45 authors)
Orson Welles filmography (279 changes by 2 authors)
SummerSlam (2020) (245 changes by 66 authors)
Pheochromocytoma (241 changes by 7 authors)
70th Anniversary Grand Prix (225 changes by 38 authors)
2020 NBA playoffs (217 changes by 39 authors)
2020 Stanley Cup playoffs (212 changes by 17 authors)
EuroLeague individual highs (211 changes by 1 authors)
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (202 changes by 35 authors)
List of Bulgarian military equipment of World War II (191 changes by 2 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

Air India Express Flight 1344 (859 changes by 238 authors)
2020 Bangalore Riots (284 changes by 45 authors)
Gam-COVID-Vac (174 changes by 46 authors)
2020 Prague Open – Singles (172 changes by 22 authors)
2020 Top Seed Open – Singles (166 changes by 15 authors)
Donald J. Harris (156 changes by 80 authors)
Building a Gothic cathedral (152 changes by 4 authors)
August 2020 Midwest derecho (124 changes by 32 authors)
Ruby Lynn Reyner (116 changes by 8 authors)
MV Wakashio oil spill (107 changes by 37 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

102,854 registered users and 64,827 unregistered users made 800,588 edits to 365,083 articles
Unregistered users made 167,564 edits to 80,637 articles
42 robots made 64,186 edits to 60,337 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.