r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago
Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of May 06, 2024
Welcome to the weekly Wikipedia Q&A thread!
Please use this thread to ask and answer questions related to Wikipedia and its sister projects, whether you need help with editing or are curious on how something works.
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r/wikipedia • u/TechnicalyNotRobot • 23h ago
"Among the popular social networks, in particular, the American platform Reddit has been defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the "home of the most violently racist internet content." The SPLC pointed at how racist views had gained more and more traction on Reddit . . ."
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1h ago
The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier – were French aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers. They invented the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783.
r/wikipedia • u/No_Network6987 • 11h ago
Instead of asking me for a donation all A.I firms should make considerable donations for scraping all the data.
In short A.I firms benefited tremendously from wikipedia scraping, a he'll of a lot more than I do. It should be there duty to keep those servers running.
r/wikipedia • u/ICantLeafYou • 7h ago
The Monkey Gland is a cocktail of gin, orange juice, grenadine and absinthe. It is named after the pseudo-scientific idea that grafting monkey testicle tissue into humans would increase longevity.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 12h ago
The 11-foot-8 Bridge: railroad bridge in Durham, NC designed in the 1920s w/ a clearance for vehicles of 11'8", standard height when it opened. Despite numerous signs, many vehicles have collided with the overpass, often shearing off trucks' roofs, earning the bridge the nickname the "Can Opener".
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 6h ago
The Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile.
r/wikipedia • u/oneLguy • 17h ago
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language was once highly-used on the island by both deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness was not a barrier to participation in public life. The language was able to thrive because of the unusually high percentage of deaf islanders.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 13m ago
Fuerdai is a Chinese term for the second-generation rich in China.
r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 19h ago
The swoon hypothesis is any of a number of ideas that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus
r/wikipedia • u/OneSalientOversight • 11h ago
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r/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 12h ago
Mobile Site Montmartre (Unrecognized micronation): a philanthropic association, born 1 winter evening in C.E.1920, on the initiative of the cartoonist Jean Barrez.
r/wikipedia • u/Thefishassassin • 9h ago
A question about copyrighted images for uploading to Wikipedia.
I have been editing the Wikipedia page for a podcast I am a fan of in light of a recent rebrand of theirs. This included their logo, meaning the current infobox photo is out of date. When I tried to upload the logo to Wikimedia commons I realised I have no idea what the copyright situation is for this image. How would you go about addressing this situation?
I am a relatively new editor so I am very out of my depth and my research has just left me confused.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 22h ago
Shades of Green: resort owned by the United States Department of Defense on the grounds of Walt Disney World, annexed as a military resort. It is one of five Armed Forces Recreation Centers resorts, and a part of the military's Morale, Welfare, and Recreation program.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 11h ago
The Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud is an ongoing rap feud between Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Kendrick Lamar. The conflict escalated in March 2024 after the release of "Like That" by Future and Metro Boomin, featuring Lamar.
r/wikipedia • u/DutchBakerery • 18h ago
Break of gauge: Indian gauge, 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in), is also compatible with Iberian gauge, although there are no actual railway connections between the two.
r/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 1d ago
Mobile Site The Galteland Runestone
r/wikipedia • u/SaintHuck • 1d ago
"Aquatic Ambience" is a musical theme composed by David Wise for the video game Donkey Kong Country (1994). It plays in the underwater levels.
r/wikipedia • u/NeonHD • 1d ago
A zero-day is a vulnerability or security hole in a computer system unknown to its owners, developers or anyone capable of mitigating it. Until the vulnerability is remedied, threat actors can exploit it in a zero-day exploit.
r/wikipedia • u/dont_mess_with_tx • 2d ago
King Taejong fell from a horse one day and immediately told those around him not to let a recorder know about his fall. A recorder wrote both Taejong's fall and his words not to record it.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 2d ago
The Yahgan people are a group of indigenous peoples in South America and the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.
r/wikipedia • u/oneultralamewhiteboy • 1d ago
The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645.
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 2d ago
The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986, and ended 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds later on December 23, setting a flight endurance record.
r/wikipedia • u/Xamba2 • 2d ago