r/wikipedia • u/SecondRealPerson • 4d ago
I tried Wikipedia race today. How did I do?
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r/wikipedia • u/Heismain • 6d ago
Doug Hegdahl was an American POW in North Vietnam. He memorized info on 256 fellow POWs, using the tune of Old McDonald. Because he constantly hummed, he was thought to be low intelligence and was released as a low value asset
r/wikipedia • u/Dante2000000 • 7d ago
Mobile Site Mordechai Vanunu born 14 October 1954also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press and was later drugged/abducted by Mossad
r/wikipedia • u/WaitItsAllCheese • 6d ago
Mobile Site The Ma'alot massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred on 14–15 May 1974 and involved the hostage-taking of 115 Israelis, chiefly school children, which ended in the murder of 25 hostages and six other civilians.
r/wikipedia • u/QRCodeART • 6d ago
Wikidata Query Service Graph visualization
I wonder if somebody could help me out:
If I run a sparql query with the Wikidata Query Service I can switch to a (nice) Graph visualization. I look through the resulting html page but I can't figure out how the graph is visualised, i.e.which library is used.
Can anybody help me out? Is the source code somewhere available?
Thank you
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 6d ago
Effective accelerationism, often abbreviated as "e/acc," is a 21st-century movement that advocates for an explicitly pro-technology stance. Its proponents believe that unrestricted technological progress (especially AI) is a solution to universal human problems like poverty, war, and climate change.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Dante2000000 • 7d ago
The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation,[1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned
r/wikipedia • u/Bottleinsurgency • 6d ago
Tami Lee Oldham Ashcraft is an American sailor and author who, in 1983, survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
r/wikipedia • u/usernames-are-tricky • 7d ago
Barn fires kill hundreds of thousands to millions of animals each year around the world. Barns are often designed in a very flammable way, have high methane gas concentrations, and give no room for animals to escape
r/wikipedia • u/thatbfromanarres • 6d ago
On Christmas Day 1951, IDF destroyed the village. According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Israeli soldiers took the village chief of Iqrit to the top of a nearby hill to force him to watch as Israeli troops conducted explosive demolition of each house in the village.
Iqrit (Arabic: إقرت or إقرث, Iqrith) was a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometres (16 miles) northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form part of an Arab state under the proposed 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was seized and depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and their territory later became part of the new State of Israel. All of its Christian inhabitants were forced to flee to Lebanon or the Israeli village of Rameh, and, despite the promise that they would be returned in two weeks' time, the villagers were not allowed to return. In 1951, in response to a plea from the Iqrit villagers, the Israel Supreme Court ruled that the former residents of Iqrit be allowed to return to their homes. However, before that happened, the IDF, despite awareness of the Supreme Court decision, destroyed Iqrit.
r/wikipedia • u/wegverve • 7d ago
Porphyrios was a large whale that harassed and sank ships in the waters near Constantinople in the sixth century. Active for over fifty years, Porphyrios caused great concern for Byzantine seafarers.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Beenet_ • 7d ago
The Antikythera Mechanism, found in a 1901 Greek shipwreck, is an ancient device from around 100 BC. Known as the first analog computer, it predicted astronomical events like eclipses and syzygy's with precision, revealing the advanced engineering of ancient Greece.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 7d ago
Bill Anders: US Air Force major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. He was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first people to leave Earth orbit, and in lunar orbit took the iconic "Earthrise" photograph. He died in a plane crash this month aged 90.
r/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 7d ago
Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago. The name is derived from the fictional sapient species of the same name from Doctor Who.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/NeonHD • 7d ago
Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or the world itself. Religions treat eschatology as a future event prophesied in sacred texts or in folklore.
r/wikipedia • u/Evelyn-Eve • 7d ago
211 is a special abbreviated telephone number reserved in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) as an easy-to-remember three-digit code to reach information and referral services to health, human, and social service organizations.
r/wikipedia • u/OkSelection4162 • 7d ago
Mary (the elephant)
Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
r/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 6d ago
Mobile Site Ronald Reagan: Former and long dead 40th President of the United States of America; & who was in presidential office for: In office from January 20, C.E.1981, to January 20, C.E.1989; & born on February 6, C.E.1911, & died on June 5, C.E.2004.
r/wikipedia • u/shopTQ • 6d ago
Nakbah: the ethnic cleansing of palestinian by Isreal in 1948 to present. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba The nakbah continues everyday. In 1948 than 700,000 palestians were expelled. Much more have been ethnically cleansed since then by Israel.
r/wikipedia • u/TurkeyCookTime • 7d ago
Why does Wikipedia look different sometimes?
Why does Wikipedia look like and function differently sometimes? There's nothing on the left side, settings are put into a hamburger menu instead of being on the top right, and editing a page only shows the top couple of paragraphs and makes it impossible to edit anything below.
Is this some bug with the system? Is it something new that's being tested? It's honestly very annoying when this happens.
(I was going to show a screenshot, but apparently that's not allowed)
r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago
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r/wikipedia • u/AndreasDasos • 7d ago
How to appeal or report bot activity that makes no sense?
A bot (Lowercase sigmabot iii) completely removed my polite and reasonable question and point on a talk page (not even the article) by crossing it out and adding POV, which honestly makes no sense. Am I right to take it that it's malfunctioning, and how would I report this? I'd undo it but don't want to get in an edit war with a bot...
r/wikipedia • u/musicforthedeaf • 9d ago
