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Meta Discussion Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of October 12, 2026
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r/wikipedia • u/GirlGrilGirl • 3h ago
Prisencolinensinainciusol is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish, but are intended to represent what American English sounds like to people who do not understand English
r/wikipedia • u/SplendiferusFinch • 11h ago
The use of makeup and cosmetics by Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, has been a subject of media coverage since before his entry into electoral politics. He has been reported to apply his own makeup.
r/wikipedia • u/cc_forest • 2h ago
What’s suddenly so interesting about math and math equations?
It’s always fun to “check the temperature” of the English world by looking at the top reads of the day. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why it’s “mathematics” and “lists of equations”. Anyone have a hint?
(also RIP to RJ, breakfast king of Albuquerque 🥺)
r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 7h ago
Timber Sycamore was a covert program run by the CIA with the aim of removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. A significant portion of weapons ultimately ended up in the hands of extremist groups, most notably ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 6h ago
“Fifth line” is euphemism originating in the Soviet Union, which indicated that an individual belonged to a certain ethnic group, usually Jewish. In the Soviet Union, line number 5 for indicating ethnicity was on the Personal Record Sheet.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/GirlGrilGirl • 7h ago
The Sabians, are a religious group mentioned three times in the Quran, where it is implied that they belonged to the 'People of the Book.' Their original identity, which seems to have been forgotten at an early date, has been called an "unsolved Quranic problem."
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 4h ago
Gilles de Rais was a French nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years’ War. Later in life he became obsessed with the occult, and was eventually arrested, tried, and executed for the sexual assault and murder of numerous children.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 6h ago
Princess Maria Karoline of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (10 January 1899 – 6 June 1941) was a German princess with learning difficulties. In 1938, her parents placed her in an institution. In 1941 she was murdered by the Nazis as part of their Aktion T4 program against disabled people.
r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 42m ago
"Brian Wilson is a genius" is a line that became part of a media campaign spearheaded in 1966 by the Beach Boys' then-publicist Derek Taylor. It represented both a sincere belief of Taylor’s as well as an attempt to rebrand the Beach Boys as artists on par with the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
r/wikipedia • u/HandsomelyDitto • 20h ago
Drapetomania was a proposed hypothesis as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity proposed in 1851 by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 11h ago
Sergey Taboritsky was a Russian journalist, known for his nationalist, monarchist, and antisemitic positions. In 1942, Taboritsky became a member of the Nazi Party, and he directly collaborated with the Gestapo.
r/wikipedia • u/ForgingIron • 3h ago
The 4.2-kiloyear event was an aridification event (long-term drought) 4,200 years ago. It has been hypothesised to have caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, and the Liangzhu culture in the lower Yangtze River area.
r/wikipedia • u/xalxary2 • 11h ago
Shawl scrotum is a condition in which the scrotum surrounds the penis, resembling a 'shawl'.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/sharkattax • 4h ago
The Cadaver Synod is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about nine months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897
my favourite pope moment, although i am also partial to the alleged Pope John the Joan and the time the church decided the best solution to having two rival popes was electing a third pope.
r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 7h ago
Omnism is the epistemological and theological position in philosophy that all religions contain varying degrees of truth, but no single religion can offer a fully true teleology.
r/wikipedia • u/Affectionate_Neck_40 • 2h ago
We turned the Wiki Race into a free multiplayer site with custom settings
Hey everyone,
My friend and I used to play the Wikipedia game the old school way, picking two random articles and trying to count our own clicks manually. We got tired of keeping score by hand and looked for websites to play on, but we could not find a good free multiplayer option that let us control our own lobby settings.
We ended up making Clickipedia (https://clickipedia.io).
Instead of just racing to the finish, we wanted to focus on competition, exploration, and different styles of play. It is 100% free and has three modes:
- Daily: One shared route every day to see who can navigate it in the fewest clicks.
- Weekly: A much harder and longer challenge.
- Lobbies: Free multiplayer where you can set up custom rules and play with friends in real time.
It has been a blast discovering bizarre rabbit holes on the site. Check out today's route or grab a friend for a match and let us know what you think!
r/wikipedia • u/MajesticBread9147 • 9h ago
Ruzi Nazar was an Uzbek nationalist who fought for the USSR, Nazi Germany, and later the CIA for the remainder of his career. His daughter Sylvia wrote the biography A Beautiful Mind about John Nash.
r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 7h ago
Bambeanos: A roasted soybean snack that was introduced in 1975 and discontinued by May 1976, having rapidly gained a reputation for causing excessive flatulence. The snack has often been described as a commercial failure.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/MediocreDiamond7187 • 3h ago
Mike the Headless Chicken
Mike was a rooster who managed to survive for 18 months after being beheaded (fed by eyedropper). He finally died on 17 March 1947.
r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 17h ago
Titanic (1943) is a Nazi propaganda film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The film had a troubled production, with its original director being arrested and later found hanged. The film had only a limited release, as Goebbels feared a film about mass panic and death would worsen morale.
r/wikipedia • u/repetiti0n • 1d ago
“Attention Is All You Need” is a 2017 research paper by researchers at Google that first introduced the “Transformer”, the neural network architecture which is the basis of modern large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude.
r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 20m ago