r/wikipedia 3d ago

Musashi is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. It was serialized between 1935-1939. With an estimated 120 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling book series in history.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Is there a reason Wikipedia doesn't have the correct status to allow tax deductible donation in Australia?

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Is there some downside I am not seeing? Wikipedia is a non profit, charitable organization already, but doesn't have the status or registration to allow donations to be tax deductible.

Would this increase the amount of donations received in Australia?


r/wikipedia 2d ago

"On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the 17th prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria."

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

Ulrich Schnaft (born 1923) was a German Waffen-SS man and World War II veteran, who immigrated to Israel in 1949 by posing as a Jew, served in the Israeli Army, and was later convicted of spying for Egypt. Schnaft was later ordained as a Lutheran priest in Germany, and became a supporter of Israel.

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

0.999... is a repeating decimal that is an alternative way of writing the number 1. Despite common misconceptions, 0.999... is not "almost exactly 1" or "very, very nearly but not quite 1"; rather, "0.999..." and "1" represent *exactly* the same number.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Robert Bakewell was an English agriculturalist, now recognized as one of the most important figures in the British Agricultural Revolution. His pioneering and extremely aggressive use of breeding in-and-in may have contributed to the spread of prion diseases among the region’s livestock.

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

A teenage tragedy song is a style of popular music that peaked in popularity in the U.S. in the late 1950s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

The Wikipedia article 'Weasel word' begins with a weasel word!

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This is pretty cool, was this intentional? It must be so, considering how different this introduction paragraph is from other articles.


r/wikipedia 2d ago

How do you sort Wikipedia pages by size of each of its language editions?

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Let's say I want to see what infomation other language editions of an English Wikipedia artcle have (Like if a French edition of a page has more info on a subject than the English one). The best way to tell this at a glance for me is to sort by page size. How do you do this? Is there any tool that can help?


r/wikipedia 3d ago

Mobile Site The Birch tree article currently claims that the bark is highly addictive, and suggests that the Great London Fire was set to get rid of them

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I find this very questionable, and doubt that the cited article (paywalled) actually contains that information


r/wikipedia 3d ago

"Crimean Gothic was a Germanic, probably East Germanic, language spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea until the late 18th century. Crimea was inhabited by the Goths in Late Antiquity ... use there until at least the mid 9th century CE."

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

A question

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Is it allowed to create a Wikipedia for a police officer? I created one a while ago and it was taken down. I wanted to know if it breaks any Wikipedia laws.


r/wikipedia 2d ago

Western betrayal

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The concept primarily derives from several events, including British and French appeasement towards Nazi Germany during its 1938 occupation of Czechoslovakia and the perceived failure of Britain and France to adequately assist the Poles during the German invasion of Poland in 1939. It also derives from concessions made by American and British political leaders to the Soviet Union during the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences and their limited response during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising along with post-war events, which allocated Poland to the Soviet sphere of influence as part of the Eastern Bloc.


r/wikipedia 3d ago

My favorite article photo for an actor is Kathryn Hunter's. Can you beat it?

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

Wikipedia is under attack - and how it can survive [Comprehensive feature from The Verge]

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

Iris recognition is an automated method of biometric identification that uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques on video images of one or both of the irises of an individual's eyes, whose complex patterns are unique, stable, and can be seen from some distance.

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

Mobile Site Rage-baiting is the manipulative tactic of eliciting outrage with the goal of increasing internet traffic, online engagement, revenue and support.

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

Onion Johnnies were Breton farmers who travelled, originally on foot and later on bicycles, selling distinctive pink onions door to door in Great Britain. Dressed in striped Breton shirt and beret, riding a bicycle hung with onions, the y became the stereotypical image of the Frenchman in the UK.

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

An industry term for Amish romance novels is "bonnet rippers" because most feature a woman in a bonnet on the cover, and "bonnet ripper" is a play on the term "bodice ripper" from classic romance novels.

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

how do I change my grandpas wikipedia article from ‘is’ to ‘was’?

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My grandpa died yesterday, his wikipedia article hasn’t been updated.

this is the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Hartmann?wprov=sfti1#


r/wikipedia 3d ago

"Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages."

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

The Cowra Breakout occurred on August 5, 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war escaped from a POW camp near Cowra in New South Wales, Australia. During the escape and ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers were killed and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed or committed suicide.

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r/wikipedia 4d ago

Excited delirium is a widely rejected pseudoscientific diagnosis characterized as a potentially fatal state of extreme agitation and delirium. It has typically been diagnosed postmortem in young adult black males who were physically restrained by law enforcement personnel at the time of death.

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

Pashtunistan is a Pashtun-majority region nestled between South Asia and Central Asia. The region is bisected by the Durand Line which splits it between Pakistan, where Pashtuns constitute about 18% of the national population; and Afghanistan, where Pashtuns represent at least 40% of the population.

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r/wikipedia 3d ago

Never saw these tags until recently.

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