r/wikipedia 8h ago

John Elwes (1714-1789) was an eccentric miser suggested to be an inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge. He ate spoiled food, wore rags, and died with a fortune equivalent to £100m.

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

“Good tsar, bad boyars” is a Russian phrase referring to a political phenomenon in which positive actions taken by the government are viewed as being the result of the leader, while negative actions are viewed as being caused by lower-level bureaucrats unbeknownst to the leader.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

The Jenin Horse was a sculpture built in 2003 in Jenin, Palestine, out of metal salvaged from areas destroyed in the Second Intifada. In the first few months of the Gaza war, the horse and other monuments in Jenin were dismantled by the IDF

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

Irish Americans are Americans of Irish ancestry. Facing America’s rampant anti-Irish sentiment in the 19th and 20th centuries, many formed their own communities in urban areas. Irish-Americans greatly influenced American culture, and many U.S. citizens still identify their ethnicity as Irish.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

Meta Discussion My boss wants me to create a Wikipedia page about him. Is that actually possible, or is that not how Wikipedia works?

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I need to know how to create a Wikipedia profile for someone. My boss has asked me to create a profile for him on Wikipedia, but I’m not sure how feasible this is or how to go about the process.


r/wikipedia 14h ago

Elena Mukhina (1960–2006) was a Soviet gymnast who won the all-around title at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg, France. Her career was on the rise, and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979, when she broke a leg and missed several competitions.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

China's final warning: Russian idiom for an empty threat. Cold War US-China relations re: Taiwan were marked by formal CCP protests in the form of a "serious warning". The 1st such warning came in '58; by '71, there had been 497 & these gravely reported threats became a joke among Soviet observers.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

From today's featured article: Anfield is a football stadium in the area of Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool Football Club since their formation in 1892.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Máximo and Bartola were the stage names of two Salvadoran siblings both with microcephaly and intellectual disability who were exhibited in human zoos in the 19th century. Billed as “Aztec children” who were found in the temple of a lost Mesoamerican city, they toured the U.S. and Europe.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

"Dactylic hexameter", the poetic meter used by ancient epics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Though it is used in languages today, it is considered extremely difficult to use for English poems.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

The Sun Gym gang were responsible for the murders of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton and attempted murder of Marc Schiller in the mid 1990s. The gang was composed mostly of bodybuilders who frequented the Sun Gym in Miami.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Tahir Hamut Izgil is a modernist Uyghur poet, filmmaker, and author. He is currently living in exile in the US. His experiences as an intellectual during the rounding up of Uyghurs and his emigration to the West is described in his memoir Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, published in 2023.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

Meta Discussion Why is the page for the .xyz domain name always on the "Top read" of English Wikipedia?

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Every time I go on Wikipedia on my phone, the page for the .xyz top-level domain is almost always in the top 10 or top 5. I cannot find any discussion or news as for why this is the case, and this has been occurring for the past few months. It bothers me and I find it very suspicious (maybe related to a scam). Does anyone know why?


r/wikipedia 7h ago

FARC dissidents are groups of former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who refused to lay down their arms after the Colombian peace process concluded in 2016, and, in some cases, have resumed their insurgency against the government of Colombia.

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Despite claiming to still follow the leftist ideology of FARC, many dissidents are more motivated in their continuing struggle against the government by difficulty with reintegrating into civilian society, a desire to protect themselves from other paramilitary or crime groups, and criminal connections. Dissident groups would become part of the rivalries between the different drug cartels, allying with some and fighting against others.


r/wikipedia 6h ago

The Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir is a clay tablet sent to the ancient city-state of Ur, written c. 1750 BC. The tablet documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, a trader, allegedly sold substandard copper to a customer named Nanni.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Brace's emerald is an extinct species of hummingbird which was endemic to the Bahamas. The only known specimen was shot by Lewis Brace in 1877.

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r/wikipedia 45m ago

James T. Kirk was a Pennsylvania merchant and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the second officer to hold the title of colonel in the 10th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment.

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r/wikipedia 52m ago

List of proposed etymologies of OK. Several etymologies have been proposed for the word OK or okay. The majority can be easily classified as false etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies.

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r/wikipedia 54m ago

Conventual sweets are sweet confectionery items typically made by nuns in convents and monasteries throughout countries with a strong Catholic presence, particularly Portugal, Spain and Italy.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Neoclassicism emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Neoclassicism was born in Rome, largely due to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann during the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Its popularity expanded throughout Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals.

The main Neoclassical movement emerged from the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, and reached its peak in the early-to-mid-19th century, eventually competing with Romanticism.


r/wikipedia 1h ago

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: codes for countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest, used in part for web domains (.uk, etc). Some codes become valuable: Tuvalu's government gets much of its revenue from .tv. Other boons: British Indian Ocean Territory (.io) and Anguilla (.ai)

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage. On September 1, 1983, the flight was shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor aircraft.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

My Account Got Blocked

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I was using sandbox to learn how to edit on wikipedia and my account got blocked. Can you please help guide me how to go about this?


r/wikipedia 22h ago

The Website That Should Have Failed

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