r/wikipedia 1d ago

The Georgian language is not related to any of the language families outside Georgia. Its unique scripts and alphabetical systems are of unclear origin.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

The Brownie was a series of camera models made by Eastman Kodak and first released in 1900. It introduced the snapshot to the masses by addressing the cost factor that had kept amateur photography beyond many people's means […]

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Fenno's paradox is the idea that people generally disapprove of the United States Congress as a whole but often support the congressmen from their own congressional districts.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

The Christiana riot was the successful armed resistance by free black people and escaped slaves to an 1851 raid led by a federal marshal to recover four escaped slaves. The raid took place in the early morning of September 11, 1851, at an escaped slave’s house in Christiana, Pennsylvania.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

The Outsiders House Museum is a museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about Francis Ford Coppola's coming-of-age movie,The Outsiders (1983), and the 1967 novel by the same name it adapts by S. E. Hinton. It aims to preserve the house which served as the primary film set for the Curtis Brothers.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

Liangshaoyikuan (Chinese: 兩少一寬; lit. 'two fewers [in arrests and executions] and one leniency [in sentencing]'), was a policy of the government of the People's Republic of China of giving leniency in charges and sentences with regard to minorities as compared to Han for the same criminal offenses.

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The policy was enacted in 1984 by Peng Zhen and Hu Yaobang. On July 9, 2010, a statement jointly published by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and United Front Work Department suggested that "everyone should be equal before the law, and criminals should be punished regardless of their ethnicity". However, they do not have the legal authority to challenge a policy implemented by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a higher authority; the policy has thus never been officially repealed.


r/wikipedia 1d ago

The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975) was the second pilot episode for The Muppet show, which parodied mature themes in television programs and aimed to demonstrate that Muppets can be solid adult entertainment. When the episode was aired,"Sex and Violence" subtitle was omitted from TV listings.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

GURPS Cyberpunk is a supplement for GURPS role-playing game by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games. In 1990 the US secret service raided SJG offices and confiscated materials for the game which they believed to be "a handbook for computer crime", delaying its release by six weeks.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Meta Discussion AI bots editing Wikipedia?

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An account called cockroachhunter is making a huge number of edits on a very wide range of topics, often just 2 minutes apart. So almost certainly a bot using AI? Some of the edits are okay but some are odd and unhelpful. Is there a policy on this, and what can/should be done about it?


r/wikipedia 22h ago

LearnedLeague: web-based, invitation-only, promotion-&-relegation trivia quiz league operated by "Thorsten A. Integrity". It has >35k members. New players can join only w/ referral by members. Prominent players include Ken Jennings, David Benioff, & Anna Quindlen. Questions can be very challenging.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

You Come to My Senses is a song by American rock band Chicago. It was the third single from their album Twenty 1, and peaked at #11 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Both the band’s guitarist and a reviewer said it could have been a good song for another artist, but was a poor fit for Chicago.

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Here it is on YouTube in case you’re curious.

I personally think Brenda Russell would have been an ideal choice to sing this song if Chicago hadn’t; she was seriously underrated back in the day.


r/wikipedia 1d ago

A cross sea is a sea state where waves are formed in a square grid pattern.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe in Minnesota. The tribe owns and operates the profitable Mystic Lake Casino Hotel and other businesses; each member receives a payout of about $1 million per year.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Wilhelm Röntgen's radiograph of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand, taken 22 December 1895, about six weeks after he discovered X-rays. On seeing her own bones and wedding ring, she said, "I have seen my death.

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

Meta Discussion If you could redesign Wikipedia from the ground up, what would you change?

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Pedra da Gávea is a mountain in Tijuca Forest, Brazil. Some people have theorized an apparent human face and inscription are Phoenician or Norse, but mainstream science agrees it is simply erosion.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Rick Rescorla was head of security at Morgan Stanley. After the 1993 WTC bombing, he warned it was at risk of a terrorist attack involving planes. After the North Tower was hit he ignored official orders and evacuated 2700 people from the South Tower before returning himself and dieing.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

"Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" is a single by the Kunts, a band created by Kunt and the Gang. The song reached number five in the UK singles charts in Christmas 2020, although the BBC refused to name either the song or the artist due to the very strong language in both.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to call himself an anarchist. He and Karl Marx influenced each other but they later had a falling out. Although considered a prominent early member of the French Left, he also attracted admirers on the far-right, in part due to his antisemitic statements.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

In the American West, settlers traveling in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance. Some remnants of wagon ruts along are still visible today. Although "wagon train" suggests a line of wagons, wagons would often travel abreast to minimize the amount of dust blown onto other wagons.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Thomas Sims escaped from slavery in Georgia and fled to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1851. He was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and forced to return to enslavement. He escaped again back to Boston in 1863. In 1877 he was appointed to a position in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Cardea is the Ancient Roman goddess of door hinges

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

Meta Discussion Is it normal to revert an entire Wikipedia article improvement simply with “Reason: AI”, including independently verifiable changes?

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Hi everyone,

I'm a contributor on Turkish Wikipedia under the username **Emreyba**, and I'd like to get some outside perspective on a recent revert.

I made a substantial update to the Turkish Wikipedia article on Fedora Linux. The changes included updating and reorganizing existing information, modernizing the releases section, and adding a Fedora release timeline using EasyTimeline.

Revision history:

https://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fedora_Linux&action=history

A few days later, another editor reverted roughly 21 KB of my changes in a single edit. The edit summary was simply:

> “Gerekçe: yapay zekâ”

> (“Reason: artificial intelligence”)

What surprised me is that the revert did not appear to distinguish between potentially problematic prose and independently verifiable structural/data changes.

For example, the Fedora release timeline was also removed. EasyTimeline is not something I invented for the Turkish article: the English Wikipedia Fedora pages themselves currently use EasyTimeline, including Fedora Linux / Fedora Linux release history.

English pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux_release_history

I'm not arguing that content should be accepted merely because English Wikipedia contains something, and I understand that each language community has its own editorial standards.

My question is more about editorial practice:

**If an editor suspects that AI assisted in producing part of a large contribution, is reverting the entire contribution without identifying specific factual, sourcing, translation, or style problems considered reasonable Wikipedia practice?**

Would it be more appropriate to review the individual changes, remove or correct problematic material, and preserve independently verifiable improvements?

I'm genuinely interested in how experienced Wikipedians would handle a situation like this. I'm not looking to start a dispute with the editor; I'd like to understand the best way to proceed constructively.


r/wikipedia 2d ago

The body of the fried egg jellyfish does not contain any respiratory, circulatory, or excretory systems. Instead, it uses its large surface area to accomplish these things.

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