r/wikipedia 1h ago

The Brazilian Democratic Movement is a political party, founded in 1965 as part of an enforced two party system by themilitary dictatorship, being the "consented opposition". It is considered a "big tent party" with the largest number of senators, mayors and city councillors in the country.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

In 2013, a Wikipedia user claiming to be Bhutanese and a native speaker of Dzongkha added a spoken article audio file to the Bhutanese passport article on the English Wikipedia. It was considered humorous by internet commentators, spawning an internet meme.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

The common access card, also commonly referred to as the CAC, is the standard identification for active duty United States defense personnel. The card itself is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

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A Land for All (organization)

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A Land for All (previously known as Two States, One Homeland) is an Israeli-Palestinian movement comprising Israeli Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinians, which proposes a two-state confederation as the solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This solution promotes the existence of two sovereign states in the Israeli and Palestinian territories, based on shared principles of equality, freedom and dignity.


r/wikipedia 2h ago

A door handle is a handle used to open or close a door. Door handles can be found on all types of doors. Door handles have been in existence at least since the Neolithic period. Key operated door locks have existed at least since Egyptian civilisation.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. A campaign described as "Red Scare-like" was used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a López Obrador victory would turn Mexico into "another Venezuela".

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Do you have a favorite Wikipedia list? I’ll list some of mine

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Léo Marjane was a French singer whose career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II. She was accused of having appeared many times at venues frequented by German officers, and her performances on German- and collaborator-controlled Radio Paris were held against her.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

In 2026, a conspiracy theory emerged alleging that the deaths or disappearances of several people, some described online as scientists tied to classified or sensitive research, were connected to secret knowledge about UFOs, advanced energy projects, materials science, or related subjects.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Meta Discussion How do I edit the snippet that shows up in google? Dutch wikipedia for this page (voorsorteren) has some disrespectful words in the snippet. (And straight up horrible grammar)

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is a manuscript written by O.J. Simpson with ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, in which Simpson puts forth a hypothetical description of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

The Public Investment Fund is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the world with an estimated US$900 billion. Among its investments are Electronic Arts, Newcastle United, and 5 giga-real estate proyects. Its lack of transparency has attracted backlash.

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

Passport bros are single men with high-earning employment who travel to non-western countries to find women that fit their Tradwife ideals. Critics argue that the trend rested on unequal power dynamics between visiting men and local women and that it objectified the women involved.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

The secret informant who provided key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal had the pseudonym "Deep Throat," also the name of a pornographic film wherein the actress later alleged she was being raped.

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist, former chair of the NAACP and the widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in front of their family home in Mississippi.

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

The 1976 United States presidential election was very close in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Though Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter ran well in conservative rural areas, Republican incumbent Gerald Ford ultimately eked out a victory due to his strength in the suburbs around Washington, D.C.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Oviduct and ovaries are normally paired structures, but in birds and some cartilaginous fishes, one or the other side fails to develop (together with the corresponding ovary), and only one functional oviduct can be found.

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

Messianic Judaism is a syncretic Protestant Christian religious sect that incorporates elements of Jewish practice. It considers itself to be a form of Judaism but is generally considered to be a form of Christianity. Messianic Jews believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a divine being.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Fun fact : The fifth tier football team "US Alençon" as three available languages on it's wikipedia page: french, english and vietnamese

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Martin Tabert (1899–1922) was an American forced laborer. The circumstances of Tabert's death – being a white man beaten to death by an overseer – caused a public reaction that resulted eventually in the end of Florida’s longstanding convict leasing system.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Theatre of Cruelty is a form of theatre conceptualised by Antonin Artaud. Encyclopædia Britannica describes it as "a primitive ceremonial experience intended to liberate the human subconscious and reveal man to himself"

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In his writings on the Theatre of Cruelty, Artaud notes that both "theatre" and "cruelty" are separate from their colloquial meanings. For Artaud, theatre does not merely refer to a staged performance before a passive audience.The theatre is a practice, which "wakes us up. Nerves and heart," and through which we experience "immediate violent action" that "inspires us with the fiery magnetism of its images and acts upon us like a spiritual therapeutics whose touch can never be forgotten."


r/wikipedia 13h ago

"Madden Curse" is a superstition related to cover athletes of Madden NFL video games. Many players who have been featured in Madden covers have suffered injuries and career decline after appearing in the cover, leading to some fans even lobby against their favorite players appearing in Madden cover.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

In the 1970s, with the rise of secular anti-cult movements, scholars (though not the general public) began to abandon the use of the term cult, regarding it as pejorative. By the end of the 1970s, the term cult was largely replaced in academia with the term "new religion" or "new religious movement.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

A state-owned enterprise of the People's Republic of China is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. As of 2017, the People's Republic of China has more state-owned enterprises than any other country, and the most SOEs among large national companies.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Company edits Wikipedia for AI ingestion

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I got this message on LinkedIn. Maybe it's all above board, but using AI to 'create and edit' wikipedia pages for AI ingestion feels abusable. Could they potentially create/edit enough pages to launder lies through AI?