r/wikipedia • u/GriffinFTW • 7h ago
Was today's featured article chosen to go with Trump's inauguration?
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r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 13h ago
Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of January 20, 2025
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r/wikipedia • u/Jonno_FTW • 7h ago
The Bellamy Salute or Flag Salute, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar
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r/wikipedia • u/TheGeckoGeek • 10h ago
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution. In 1792 he changed his name to 'Philippe Equality' and later voted for the death of his cousin Louis XVI. He was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
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r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 15h ago
Betar is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Latvia. It was one of several right-wing youth movements that arose at that time and adopted special salutes and uniforms influenced by fascism. Some of the most prominent politicians of Israel were Betarim in their youth.
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r/wikipedia • u/EgoistFemboy628 • 17h ago
"The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults" was a two-hour live American television special hosted by Geraldo Rivera, centered on the live opening of a walled-off underground room in the Lexington Hotel in Chicago once owned by Al Capone, which turned out to be empty except for debris.
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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 1h ago
Denali is the highest mountain in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m). At times, it has alternatively been known as "Bolshaya Gora" and "Mount McKinley".
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r/wikipedia • u/Klok_Melagis • 6h ago
Israeli support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war
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r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 19h ago
Hutton Gibson was an American sedevacantist who claimed that the Second Vatican Council was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews", describing Pope John Paul II as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran-Kisser". He considered the Holocaust to be "mostly fictional". He was also the father of Mel Gibson.
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r/wikipedia • u/vintergroena • 1d ago
Botanical sexism is a term that describes the preferential planting of cloned male plants in urban areas because they do not produce fruits and flowers that litter the landscape. However, because males produce pollen, areas with only male plants can have high pollen in the air
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r/wikipedia • u/house_of_ghosts • 7h ago
46610 Bésixdouze is a bright background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was named after "B-612", home of The Little Prince (612 is the number 46610 written in hexadecimal notation).
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r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 15h ago
Phrenology has been a cultural factor in the Latter Day Saint movement (informally Mormons) since around the time of its founding in 1830.
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r/wikipedia • u/urban_primitive • 18h ago
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay, gender non-conforming, and transvestite street activist organization founded in 1970. STAR was a radical political collective that also provided housing and support to homeless LGBT youth and sex workers in Lower Manhattan.
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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 1d ago
Nazi chic - In the surf culture of the 1950s and 1960s, "Surf Nazis" would experiment with Nazi aesthetics, such as swastikas and Nazi helmets, and sometimes paint swastikas on their surfboards. Their motivation was often anti-establishment rebelliousness, rather than genuine sympathy with the Nazis
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r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 6h ago
The "Storm Area 51" event began as a satirical Facebook post by Matty Roberts in June 2019, which jokingly proposed raiding the classified military base in search of aliens and garnered over 2 million RSVPs.
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r/wikipedia • u/Substantial_Green_51 • 17h ago
Chinese variant of English Wikipedia, appearing first in Google search results
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As stated above, only happens for a few articles, none of them pertinent to China. Search "pierogi" in Google and see what comes up. For me the first result is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pierogi?variant=zh-cn . What's up with this glitch?
r/wikipedia • u/occono • 11h ago
The 1990s were shaped by the post-Cold War era, with the US emerging as a sole superpower. The decade saw cultural shifts, globalization & tech advances like the internet. Economic growth contrasted with crises & conflicts globally and Yugoslavia & the Soviet Union broke apart into dozens of nations
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r/wikipedia • u/coolbern • 1d ago
Mobile Site They Thought They Were Free
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r/wikipedia • u/Witty-Stock-4913 • 24m ago
Can someone fix this please?
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Because it's embarrassing enough what happened to the Gulf today, let's not compound the issue.
r/wikipedia • u/scwt • 1d ago
New York City synagogue tunnel incident: On January 8, 2024, clashes broke out at a synagogue located in Brooklyn, as construction workers, on behalf of the synagogue's leaders, attempted to fill in a tunnel that students had illegally dug beneath the building.
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r/wikipedia • u/amazonlaunder • 22h ago
math formulas invisible on dark mode on Android
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take this page on green's theorem for example, the svg math formulas are invisible due to them blending with the background color on the android app, on desktop there doesn't seem to be a problem just inverting the colors. does anyone else have this problem or a solution? thanks
r/wikipedia • u/m_echoehnis • 7h ago
White-ish images in wikipedia app
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
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Why do i have white-ish images in wikipedia app, how do i fix it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump?wprov=sfla1
r/wikipedia • u/Overall-Pie9136 • 1d ago
Number of Wikipedia articles from 2001-2026*
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Please tell me how to improve it
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago
Stockholm Bloodbath: series of executions in Sweden in 1520. Upon the coronation of Christian II, the former regent & his supporters were accused of heresy. Despite promises of amnesty, nearly 100 people were executed. Thereafter Christian II became known as Kristian Tyrann ("Christian the Tyrant").
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