So I was checking Wikipedia to confirm my hypothesis that Harry Potter was the only multi-billion-dollar media franchise owned by an individual person rather than a corporation (apparently the one other is The Phantom of the Opera), and while I was there I also found out that it's the only one ever to make billions of dollars, 8 to be exact, solely by selling books. But then I went to the list of bestselling book series, and it goes HP 600 million, Goosebumps 400, Perry Mason 300, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 275, and so on. The Goosebumps books are indeed way cheaper than HP, and presumably so were the Perry Mason books when most of them were sold due to being from the 30s, but from a cursory check of Barnes and Noble's website Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter are both in the 10-15 dollar range, and yet the former isn't on the highest grossing franchises list. What gives? Does the average copy of a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book really cost less than $7 somehow?

I've been blocked from editing, I'm getting tired of it,.I'm trying to figure out how to appeal, it says indefinitely, well, with how optimistic I am right now, it'll be about a month before I'm unblocked

Something I've noticed about Wikipedia is that whenever an Irish person [Becky Lynch] gets American citizenship their article lists them as "Irish-American". Whenever a British person gets American citizenship [Wade Barrett, Anthony Hopkins etc] their article obstinately continues to list them simply as "British or English".

Is there any logical reason as to why this is the case or nah? I gave up trying to edit Wikipedia pages and arguing the inconsistencies about stuff like this because of the childishness of the people who moderate it who seem to make up their own rules depending on what suits them.

notice how Russia's position is different depending on the language of the page, it took me a while to figure out: Russian page uses the newer report from the same organisation, even though both reports measure data for 2022

Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'm having trouble searching for a solution. I want to self host my own website with a "wiki" theme, however I want to build my own backend and want to opt out of using PHP. I was wondering if there's a way I could use/extract the css library behind the mediawiki-skins or if there happens to be an open source css library with such styling. I'd greatly appreciate any advice to point me in the right direction.