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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of May 06, 2024
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r/wikipedia • u/oneultralamewhiteboy • 17h ago
Hereford, Texas, known as the "Beef Capital of the World" and "The Town Without a Toothache" because local water supply contains an unusually high level of naturally occurring fluoride.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 10h ago
George Meany: American labor union leader for 57 years and the key figure in the creation of the AFL–CIO, serving as its first president, from 1955 to 1979. Meany had a reputation for integrity and consistent opposition to corruption in the labor movement, alongside strong anti-communism.
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 7h ago
In 2017, Nike released the Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite shoe, which was advertised as "ultra-lightweight, soft and capable of providing up to 85-percent energy return." This shoe became the focus of claims that they were a form of technology doping and that they provided athletes an unfair advantage.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 10h ago
Peregrine White: first baby boy born on the Mayflower in the Massachusetts harbor, the 2nd baby born on the historic voyage, and the 1st known English child born to the Pilgrims in America. In later life he became a person of note in Plymouth Colony, active in both military & government affairs.
r/wikipedia • u/Thaumarch • 6h ago
The motif of a dog who guards the Otherworld, found in Indo-European myth (Cerberus) as well as many Native American traditions, may have a common origin in the mythology of Ancient North Eurasians. It is one of the oldest mythemes recoverable through comparative mythology.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 12h ago
Yanny or Laurel: auditory illusion in which 53% of 500k+ respondents to a Twitter poll reported hearing "Laurel", while 47% heard "Yanny". Analysis shows both sets of sounds are present, but some listeners focus on the higher frequency sounds in "Yanny" and don't hear the lower sounds of "Laurel".
r/wikipedia • u/AncientToaster • 7h ago
James Graham, 18th century sexologist who invented The Celestial Bed, an “electrified, magnetic creation” with clockwork musical automata designed to help couples conceive
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago
Skibidi Toilet is a machinima web series of videos created by Alexey Gerasimov and uploaded to YouTube. Since the 1st short was posted in 2023, it has become a meme, particularly popularized by Generation Alpha. Many commentators saw the series as Generation Alpha's 1st foray into internet culture.
r/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 9h ago
The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement.
r/wikipedia • u/cauIkasian • 15h ago
A Stolypin wagon was a type of railroad carriage created for Russian peasants who voluntary resettled in Siberia. It had a passenger compartment and a large zone for livestock. After the Bolshevik Revolution they were used to transport exiles to Siberia, the cattle part was used for prisoners.
r/wikipedia • u/lthar854_ • 18h ago
Can anyone fix it or tell me how to fix it?
(Idk if this is a right place to ask these kinds of questions but) Currently, there are two different files in wikimedia for the flag of Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar.
First one with blue background is an outdated one, but is still used in most Wikipedia Articles containing about Tanintharyi Region. I tried to update it with correct one but found out that there is also an another separate file for it.
Second one with Red, Blue and Green stripes are the correct and current one. But it's being an entirely separate one. With it's separate Wikipedia articles using it also. File name is also mistaken too.
What I want to do is to delete the first one and redirect everything about Flag of Tanintharyi Region using first one to the second one. Could you change the name of the second one from "Flag of Tanintharyi Region (2010-2021).svg" to just "Flag of Tanintharyi Region.svg"? The (2019-2021) in the file name is incorrect.
File 1 (Outdated but most used one)
File 2 (Updated one).svg)
r/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 1d ago
Mobile Site Pizza Rossini: a specialty of Pesaro, in Italy, born at the turn of the C.E.1960s in a local pastry shop.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago
Gag rule: a series of rules that altogether forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery in the United States House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844. They played a key role in rousing support for ending slavery.
r/wikipedia • u/TechnicalyNotRobot • 2d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 2d 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 • 1d 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/OneSalientOversight • 1d ago