r/wikipedia • • 15h ago

The Aishiyeh massacre was a massacre in 1976 in Aishiya, Lebanon, of more than 70 Lebanese Christian civilians, including at least 7 under the age of 16, by Palestinian factions Fatah and As-Sa'iqa during the Lebanese Civil War. Four people were reported to be executed and one was burned alive.

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r/wikipedia • • 4h ago

LifeTimes is a jazz fusion album by Diana Hubbard featuring notable musicians Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. The daughter of L. Ron Hubbard, as of 2001 Diana maintained a leadership position within Scientology.

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r/wikipedia • • 20h ago

The White Revolution was a series of reforms intended to modernize iran launched on January 26 1963 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.Among the elements of the revolution were land reforms, expanded road, rail, and air network, enfranchisement of women, literacy and health corps for rural areas and more.

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r/wikipedia • • 18h ago

The Carmelit is the smallest subway system in the world. Located under Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, it has one line, six stations, two trains, four total train cars, and a ridership of 4,000 people a day as of 2018.

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r/wikipedia • • 5h ago

In the latter half of 2026, a period of unrest has gripped large parts of the European continent.

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r/wikipedia • • 12h ago

The Pokémon franchise features 1025 fictional species of collectible creatures.

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r/wikipedia • • 5h ago

Meta Discussion Errors on a critically endangered species

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why downvote someone trying to fix a database mixtake on wiki that probably has 1000s of mistakes on many pages?

The French page for Raie aigle Myliobatis aquila contains wrong information for its endangerment - critical, instead it says data deficient which is information from over five years ago.

Surely some hundreds or thousands of species and pages on wiki languages IUCN mistakes so I'm surprised that they don't sync the database for different species just using the actual iucn latest information which is free as a 20mb zip file.

I don't know enough about Wikipedia to make the necessary changes for code of IUCN.


r/wikipedia • • 2h ago

Election law and voting rights under the second Trump administration

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r/wikipedia • • 15h ago

Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave located west of Utah Lake. The cave attracted cavers despite its narrow passageways, but access to the cave was closed in 2009, after an accident that resulted in the death of 26-year-old John Edward Jones.

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r/wikipedia • • 6h ago

White power skinheads are members of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist and antisemitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture. Many of them are affiliated with white nationalist organizations and some of them are members of prison gangs.

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r/wikipedia • • 1h ago

Momotaro: Sacred Sailors is the first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for World War II by the Japanese Naval Ministry.

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r/wikipedia • • 10h ago

Ambazonia - a separatist region of Cameroon, with multiple competing factions claiming leadership thereof.

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r/wikipedia • • 2h ago

1 is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group

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r/wikipedia • • 4h ago

Swastika is an unincorporated community and hamlet in the town of Black Brook, Clinton County, New York, United States. The community is 19 miles southwest of Plattsburgh. The area is not very populated and appears as a wide spot on the road with a few buildings.

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The name dates back to at least 1913, when a post office called Swastika, NY operated from 1913 until 1958.[3][4] Edward Duprey, the town's last postmaster, told the Plattsburgh Press-Republican that the community was previously known as Goodrich Mills. "The government sent a list of names," he explained of Swastika's origin. "It had nothing to do with the community. It was just a name for the post office", he added.[5]
In September 2020, the town's councilors unanimously voted to keep the name Swastika after a New York City resident asked the town's council to consider another name. Black Brook, New York Supervisor Jon Douglass stated the town "was named by the town’s original settlers in the 1800s and is based on the Sanskrit word meaning well-being”.[6][7] He noted "the four-sided geometric character that represents the Swastika has been used for thousands of years in Indian religions and seen as a symbol of good luck", despite the word's modern associations.[8] The request to change the name had been previously brought up during meetings, including once right after WWII.[4]


r/wikipedia • • 3h ago

James Pike was an American Episcopal Bishop, lawyer, alleged heretic and writer who was one of the first religious figures to appear regularly on television. Notable for outspoken views on things such as abortion, the virginity of Mary, ordination of women, LGBTQ rights, and desegregation.

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r/wikipedia • • 4h ago

ChatGPT didn't kill Wikipedia. It took the homework.

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I pulled 11 years of pageviews for 50 French curriculum articles against a pop-culture control, labeled with the real school calendars. Site-wide decline predates ChatGPT; the homework pages broke in 2022-2023. Dataset linked at the end.


r/wikipedia • • 22h ago

Catgirl is a female character with feline traits, such as cat ears, a tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. Catgirls are especially common in Japanese anime and manga, and originate form cat monsters like bakeneko and nekomata of Japanese folklore.

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r/wikipedia • • 2h ago

Michèle Mouton is a French former rally driver who competed in the WRC at the height of its infamous Group B era. With a career that included 4 victories and a championship finish of 2nd in 1982, publications such as Autosport have deemed her “motorsport's most successful ever female driver”.

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r/wikipedia • • 18h ago

The Paradox Of Hedonism: For the hedonist, constant pleasure-seeking may not yield the most actual pleasure or happiness in the long term when consciously pursuing pleasure interferes with experiencing it.

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r/wikipedia • • 19h ago

“We live in a constitutional republic” and "the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy" are political slogans associated with some aspects of conservatism in the United States. The claims are entirely absent from revolutionary-era writing.

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r/wikipedia • • 20h ago

Jonas Hanway (12 August 1712 – 5 September 1786), was an English merchant, writer and philanthropist. He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking. Hanway created seventy-four printed works, mostly pamphlets, on a wide variety of subjects.

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r/wikipedia • • 53m ago

James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. Some scholars have surmised that he was a homosexual, citing his extremely close relationship with fellow politician William R. King.

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r/wikipedia • • 22h ago

Kiiking is a sport which involves a person making a swing gain increasingly more momentum, with the longest shafts possible. The practice of traditional village swings have had an important place in Estonian culture for over a century.

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r/wikipedia • • 4h ago

A cat café is a theme café, whose attractions are cats that can be watched and played with. Patrons pay a cover fee, generally hourly, and thus cat cafés can be seen as a form of supervised indoor pet rental.

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The world's first cat café, "Cat Flower Garden" opened in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998 and eventually became a global tourist destination. The concept spread to Japan, where the first one named "Neko no Jikan" (lit. "Cat's Time") was opened in Osaka in 2004. Due to Japan's land size and population, many residents live in small apartments or condominiums which do not allow pets, making cat cafés a very popular destination for young workers looking for the companionship and comfort offered. Tokyo's first cat café, named "Neko no Mise" (Cat's Store), opened in 2005. After this, the popularity of cat cafés boomed in Japan. As of 2026, Japan’s cat cafes number over 300.

Cat cafés originally opened in Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and mainland China. However, since the 2010s, cat cafes gained in popularity in many countries worldwide, for example in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States.


r/wikipedia • • 8h ago

Floyd Collins was an American cave explorer. In 1925, he became trapped and died two weeks later in what would become Mammoth Cave National Park. The rescue attempts became a media sensation on the then-new technology of broadcast radio. His body was later exhibited, then stolen and desecrated.

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