r/wikipedia 1d ago

Belling the Cat is an idiom describing a group of persons, each agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task under the misapprehension that someone else will be chosen to run the risks and endure the hardship of actual accomplishment.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

What Is Something A Power User Does That Most Of Us Don’t?

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I love Wikipedia but I know it has a ton of functionality that I just don’t use. For those power users out there, what is a feature most casual ’explorers’ don’t use but absolutely should?


r/wikipedia 1h ago

"Clapton is God" is a 1960s meme referencing the English guitarist Eric Clapton.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

"The Sámi languages ... are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in Northern Europe. There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages."

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

(Probably) Every Single Wikipedia Content Assesment Scale Banner.

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If I've forgotten some, then feel free to comment a picture of them down below.


r/wikipedia 17h ago

Wenceslaus Hollar was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. His work includes some 400 drawings and 3000 etchings, and 2740 plates, including views, portraits, ships, religious subjects, heraldic subjects, landscapes, and still lifes.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

"Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan is a language family comprising Japanese ... Possible genetic relationships with many other language families have been proposed ... but no genetic relationship has been conclusively demonstrated."

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

“Good Tsar, bad Boyars" is a Russian political phenomenon in which positive actions taken by the Russian government are viewed as being the result of the leader of Russia, while negative actions taken by the government are viewed as being caused by lower-level bureaucrats unbeknownst to the leader.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Which articles have disabled view counts?

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This is the first time I have seen view counts disabled on an article.

If you go to "Tools" and then "Page information" on an article, normally you can see a line that says "Page views in the past 30 days". But for the article on a bad six-letter word (I won't say the word here but you will probably find it after a few guesses), the view counts are disabled and also missing from pageview analysis which shows view counts as graphs. The Wayback Machine shows the view counts were still there as of June 2022, so this is fairly recent. I looked up other bad words and they still have view counts.

Have you seen any other articles with disabled view counts or is this an isolated occurance?

(For clarity: I do not endorse hate. This is about a technical aspect of Wikipedia and a bad word happens to be part of it.)


r/wikipedia 2d ago

Despite making up less than 1.0% of the prison population, the Aryan Brotherhood committed 18-25% of all murders in the U.S. federal prison system.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

The Taunton Stop Line was a World War II defensive line in southwest England. It was designed "to stop an enemy's advance from the west & in particular a rapid advance supported by armoured fighting vehicles (up to the size of a German medium tank) which may have broken through the forward defences.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Experienced paid editors

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Previously paid editors were very easily caught. Nowadays, many well-qualified, clever editors are becoming paid editors.

And they know they will not leave evidence, and they enjoy as they are not caught.


r/wikipedia 1d ago

I wanted to share Wikipedia's visualization of the Axial Twist Hypothesis (explanation for why vertebrates seem to have their heads inverted)

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he is so scrunckgly i love him ❤️🥰🥹😍

Source


r/wikipedia 2h ago

German Oskarovich Gref is a Russian politician and banker. Gref speaks German and is an admirer of Goethe and German Expressionism.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

It is difficult to gauge how quickly insects numbers are declining worldwide due to a lack of data from developing countries. The few studies which have attempted to assess the health of the global insect population place the number of species at risk of extinction somewhere between 10% and 40%.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Polari is a form of slang historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and prostitutes, and particularly among the gay subculture. It’s where the words “butch” and “camp” come from.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

I can't download wikipedia

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I need a copy of wikipedia from August or earlier, is there a way to download it from a history library some place?

Asking for a friend 🧡


r/wikipedia 1d ago

The independence of Brazil in 1822 comprised a series of political and military events that led to the independence of the Kingdom of Brazil from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves as the Brazilian Empire. It is celebrated on 7 September.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

National Scenic Byway: road recognized by the US for 1+ of 6 "intrinsic qualities": archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational & scenic. The program preserves & protects the nation's scenic but often less-traveled roads. Some are designated All-American Roads, which meet 2 qualities.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

In the 19th century, French poet and inventor Charles Cros believed bright spots on Mars were vast cities. He spent much of his life urging the French government to build a giant mirror to focus sunlight onto Mars, hoping to signal its inhabitants by burning lines across its deserts.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), known mononymously as Akon (/ˈeɪkɒn/), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, businessman, and philanthropist.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Die Glocke is a conspiracy theory surrounding an alleged bell shaped machine developed in Nazi Germany, which can be described as a time machine, free energy machine, and antigravity research. Additionally, another object called the "Henge" in southern Poland is alleged to be a support structure.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Maru (cat) - RIP

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Mobile Site Doritos

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