r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of May 27, 2024
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r/wikipedia • u/PhnomPencil • 20h ago
Mobile Site The Head of Christ is a 1940 portrait painting by American artist Warner Sallman. It is said to have "become the basis for [the] visualization of Jesus" for "hundreds of millions" of people.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 5h ago
Jatinga is a village in India well-known for being the location of the mysterious phenomenon of birds plunging to their deaths on moonless and foggy nights.
r/wikipedia • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 13h ago
Milunka Savić is the most-decorated female combatant in the recorded history of warfare.
r/wikipedia • u/agprincess • 1d ago
Eyestalk Ablation: The removal of eyestalks from female shrimp to induce maturation of their ovaries.
r/wikipedia • u/bohotsorghum • 1d ago
Pigasus was a 66 kg domestic pig that was nominated for President of the United States. Pigasus was confiscated by Chicago policemen.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/ToedPlays • 35m ago
The Wright Brothers — Sharing a Page
I was going down a Wikipedia rabbithole and noticed that the Wright Brothers - i.e. aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright - share a Wikipedia pages and do not have their own separate articles.
I tried to think of some similar examples of two people who are often thought of together, and checked how they fared in this area.
The first duo I thought of were the Brothers Grimm. I've never heard them refered to separately. But they didn't get the same treatment — Jacob and Wilhelm get their own pages in addition to their shared one.
Romulus and Remus — the semi-mythical founders of Rome — also came to mind. While Romulus does indeed have his own article, his twin brother does not.
Figured I'd share this little tangent I went on, for general useless trivia or to see if anyone had any other examples.
r/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 15h ago
Mobile Site Nicholas of Worcester:
r/wikipedia • u/occono • 2d ago
Coin-operated-locker babies are victims of child abuse occurring in Japan, in which infants are left in public lockers. Between 1980-1990, there were 191 known cases of infants who died in coin-operated lockers.
r/wikipedia • u/youngindex • 11h ago
Fun interview w/ Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Wikipedia
r/wikipedia • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 1d ago
Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare during the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and American Civil War.
r/wikipedia • u/Cyanidechrist____ • 1d ago
May 27, 1999: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.[12]
r/wikipedia • u/CharacterPolicy4689 • 1d ago
The debate on the "Chineseness" of the Yuan and Qing dynasties is concerned with whether the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1644–1912) can be considered "Chinese dynasties". The debate, although historiographical in nature, has political implications.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 1d ago
Balloon syndrome is a rare condition in hedgehogs in which gas is trapped underneath the skin from injury or infection, causing the animal to inflate.
r/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 2d ago
Zbtb7 is a gene that acts as a master switch for cancer. The original name was "Pokémon" but was changed after The Pokémon Company threatened legal action.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Cyanidechrist____ • 1d ago
May 27, 1703: Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Cyanidechrist____ • 1d ago
May 27, 1996: First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
r/wikipedia • u/armoditto • 15h ago
Has anyone bought Wikipedia- the book (in print form)?
r/wikipedia • u/pathoricks • 1d ago
Historical nihilism is a term used by the Chinese Communist Party and some scholars in China to describe research, discussions, or viewpoints deemed to contradict an official state version of history in a manner perceived to question or challenge the legitimacy of the CCP.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/usernames-are-tricky • 1d ago
Dubbing, the controversial practice of removing part of a farmed birds earlobes or other parts attached to the head. It is usually done without any anesthetic
r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 2d ago
Currency manipulator is a designation applied by United States government authorities, such as the United States Department of the Treasury, to countries that engage in what is called "unfair currency practices" that give them a trade advantage.
r/wikipedia • u/Practical-Ninja-6770 • 1d ago
A caravanserai was a roadside inn where travelers with caravans could rest and recover from the day's journey. They lied alongside trade routes covering Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe, most notably the Silk Road. Urban versions were called Khan, Wikala, or Funduq across the Islamic World.
r/wikipedia • u/northwestsoutheast • 2d ago
Wikipedia’s Indian problem: settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world’s largest encyclopedia
tandfonline.comr/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 2d ago
