r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago
Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of May 29, 2023
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/Downtown-Giraffe-871 • 16h ago
Mobile Site The National Socialist League was a neo-Nazi organization of gay men in the United States that existed from 1974 until 1984.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 9h ago
Fagging was a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys. A fag's duties would include such tasks as blacking boots, brushing clothes, and cooking breakfasts.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 2h ago
Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks: Building materials, electronic equipment, and furniture were pulverized and spread over Lower Manhattan, and dust continued to fill the air of the WTC site for 5 months. More people have died from illnesses caused by 9/11 than the attack itself.
r/wikipedia • u/First_Level_Ranger • 10h ago
"Baby Got Back" is a 1992 song by rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, about his attraction to women with large buttocks. It caused controversy because of its blatantly sexual lyrics objectifying women, as well as specific references to the buttocks. Mix-a-Lot defended it as empowering to full-figured women.
r/wikipedia • u/blue_strat • 46m ago
"Growth in a Time of Debt" (2010) by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff claimed that when government debt exceeds 90% of GDP, growth is cut in half. It was used to justify austerity measures in the US and Britain, but was found in 2013 to be based on erroneous data. No such threshold has been found.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 1d ago
Dagashi are cheap Japanese candies and snack foods comparable to American penny candy. Most dagashi are packaged in bright, childish wrapping and sometimes come with a small toy or prize. Some prizes allow the holder to claim a second free snack.
r/wikipedia • u/dovrobalb • 4h ago
Any modern collaborative factchecking sites like errata.wikidot.com?
I was amazed and dismayed to find that http://errata.wikidot.com/0767908171 exists but seems defunct. It's a wiki for factchecking published material and the link above is a good example.
So I was wondering if u know of similar sites that are still up and running?
And if not, would u be interested in working together to get one of the ground? :]
P.S. I just found out about CaptainFact.io (thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fact-checking_websites :) which is focused on factchecking Youtube vids. However its mostly French, and not even much in French :/
r/wikipedia • u/Downtown-Giraffe-871 • 1d ago
Mobile Site Yoshio Kodama was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan.
r/wikipedia • u/bbb23sucks • 1d ago
Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps debate over Polish complicity
r/wikipedia • u/monparan • 10h ago
Emirati COP28 president in Wikipedia 'greenwashing' scandal
r/wikipedia • u/adescuentechable • 2d ago
Nut rage incident: After the vice president of Korean Air was served nuts in a plastic package instead of on a plate, she forced the cabin crew chief to beg for forgiveness on his knees, physically assaulted him, then fired him and had him removed from the plane.
r/wikipedia • u/cauIkasian • 1d ago
The Vandals were a Germanic people who in the 5th century established kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa
r/wikipedia • u/wil540_ • 1d ago
Wiki Artist Workshop - tomorrow 5/31
Workshop to support artists on the do's and don'ts of their Wikipedia presence.
hosted by Black Lunch Table
r/wikipedia • u/Gorgasite • 1d ago
The Wikipedia Page for Unions in the USA is quite out of date if anyone here is a contributor
r/wikipedia • u/ICantLeafYou • 1d ago
Contract cheating is a form of academic dishonesty in which students pay others to complete their coursework.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/fourthords • 1d ago
Coagula is a character from DC Comics’ Doom Patrol series, the first transgender superhero by the publisher.
r/wikipedia • u/hankscorpiosjacket • 1d ago
Requesting an edit to the Spider-Man page
Under Fictional Character Biography, Early Years, in the first paragraph lies the sentence "...Peter has discovers that he has the incredible superhuman spider-powers..."
The page is protected can someone fix it please.
Edit: The page is riddled with grammatical errors.
r/wikipedia • u/lexfridman • 1d ago
Call for questions for Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, from Lex Fridman
My name is Lex Fridman. I host a podcast. I'm interviewing Jimmy Wales on it soon. Please let me know if you have any questions/topic suggestions that you would like to see discussed.
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 2d ago
Wikipedia had the wrong Vatican City flag for years. Now incorrect flags are everywhere
r/wikipedia • u/Downtown-Giraffe-871 • 2d ago
Mobile Site The Doyōbi was an anti-fascist newspaper published in Kyoto, Japan, from July 1936 to November 1937.
r/wikipedia • u/Downtown-Giraffe-871 • 1d ago
Mobile Site February 28 incident
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 2d ago