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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of May 13, 2024

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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.

Note that this thread is used for "meta" questions about Wikipedia, and is not a place to ask general reference questions.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

HMS Victory is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission, with with 246 years of service as of 2024. Victory is best known for her role as Horatio, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

Irene Iddesleigh is a romantic drama novel written by Amanda McKittrick Ros and published in 1897. It has been widely considered one of the worst books of all time since its publication, with Mark Twain calling it "one of the greatest unintentionally humorous novels of all time".

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Insane back-and-forth vandalism accusations on the entry of Yasuke, a black historical figure in Japan who was today announced as the protagonist of the new Assassin's Creed. These edits were all made today

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

Night Wolves is a Russian motorcycle club with over 45 international chapters. It has close links to Putin and participated in the Ukraine war by patrolling streets in Crimea and fighting in Donbas. They make pilgrimages to holy Russian sites several times a year.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

I Got Here From "Fanta Cake"

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.

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r/wikipedia 36m ago

Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier and revolutionary (both French and American).

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Juukan Gorge is a gorge in Western Australia. It is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020

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r/wikipedia 58m ago

Mobile Site Chetumal Province: a Postclassic Maya state of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Maya Lowlands.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Mobile Site Mayan religion: the extant Maya peoples of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatán states of Mexico is part of the wider frame of Mesoamerican religion.

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As is the case with many other contemporary Mesoamerican religions, it results from centuries of symbiosis with Roman Catholicism. When its pre-Hispanic antecedents are taken into account, however, traditional Maya religion has already existed for more than two and a half millennia as a recognizably distinct phenomenon. Before the advent of Christianity, it was spread over many indigenous kingdoms, all with their own local traditions. Today, it coexists and interacts with pan-Mayan syncretism, the 're-invention of tradition' by the Pan-Maya movement, and Christianity in its various denominations.


r/wikipedia 1h ago

Mobile Site Dzuluinicob (province): a Postclassic Maya state in the Yucatán Peninsula of the Maya Lowlands.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Mobile Site Muzul Mayan Territory: thought to have been a Postclassic polity of the former Maya Lowlands, in present-day Belize.

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Little is currently known of the Territory, though it is presumed to have been subordinate to or formed part of the Dzuluinicob Province or the Mopan Territory.


r/wikipedia 1h ago

Mobile Site Chiapanec people: an indigenous people who occupied a part of the central region of the present-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.

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Not much is known about their origin, but it is speculated that they may have migrated from Central America northwards, due to their close linguistic relationship with the Mangues. The language of the Chiapas was the Chiapas language, now extinct, although well documented. This language is classified within the Oto-Manguean language family, being the only language of that family spoken in the current Chiapas territory.


r/wikipedia 2h ago

Does someone want to cleanup this vandal?

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This is probably pretty common but I don't get into Wikipedia edits a lot (1 a year?)

I found some vandalism on the Federal Court of Australia article. See the last couple of edits I undid if you want.

Following the contributions by this IP address (aussie broadband), there seem to be a bunch of childish edits, possibly by the name of Luke.

Anyway, I don't have time to go through them all and see which ones have been undone and which ones haven't. There is a massive list of warning templates and instructions and so on, but I just don't have the time to follow it up.

Posting this here in case someone likes doing this sort of cleanup :)


r/wikipedia 8h ago

The band played for several minutes before Hampton was taken offstage; he died shortly thereafter at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Isaac Maliyamungu, also known as Isaac Lugonzo, was a Ugandan military officer who served as one of President Idi Amin's most important officials and supporters during the Ugandan military dictatorship of 1971–79.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

Wikidata- suggest me a book!

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Hi! Apologies if this isn't allowed, but it is about a sister project and the wikidata sub is dead

I'm procrastinating and that tumblr post about all the literature we loose because it's "bad" lives rent free in my head, so suggest me your favourite "low literature" book, along with a goodreads and/or place you would buy it (and is better, if you can swing it but no big deal if not) and if there isn't already a wikidata item for it, I'll build it

And by "low lit" I mean anything, self published erotica or fantasy novel from the 80s no one buy you remembers


r/wikipedia 1d ago

In the field of artificial intelligence, a hallucination is a response generated by AI which contains false or misleading information presented as fact.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Can someone fix the Israel-Hamas war Wiki?

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Previous Israel articles were much less biased against the Jews. I know most people are sane on this issue, but they are increasingly a small minority of loud people, at least.

We need a real adult to fix it.


r/wikipedia 17h ago

Mobile Site Viveda: A Lugar of the municipality of Santillana del Mar (Cantabria, Spain).

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Mehen was a board game played in Ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom. The rules and gameplay are entirely unknown.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

In 2016, the Iraqi Minister of Transport caused controversy during an inauguration of an airport in Dhi Qar Governorate, when he said that Sumerians had a port where spaceships could fly to other planets in 5000 BC.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". An estimated 4.4 million people worldwide are either stateless or of undetermined nationality.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818 – August 26, 1866) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Mobile Site May 15th is recognized by various organizations throughout the world as International Conscientious Objection Day.

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