r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of August 08, 2022
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.
Some other helpful resources:
- Help Contents on Wikipedia
- Guide to Contributing on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia IRC Help Channel
- Wikipedia Teahouse (help desk)
r/wikipedia • u/NeonHD • 10h ago
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/envatted_love • 15h ago
Sankebetsu brown bear incident: the worst bear attack in Japanese history
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Vast_Perspective_875 • 2h ago
Was comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, also known as just "Nasubi", forced to stay within the apartment the challenge set him in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
As the title says, was he forced to do this? I don't really understand why he would continue to stay if this is the case. After all, there were people opening the door so he could have technically left whenever. Why did he choose to stay if he could have just left? Also what was the incentive in finishing the challenge? I don't remember there being any mention of payment being involved.
r/wikipedia • u/unquietwiki • 12h ago
"Bone Wars": a "Great Dinosaur Rush" between two leading paleontologists in the Gilded Age.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/oneultralamewhiteboy • 10h ago
2022 Oder environmental disaster
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Toopad • 3h ago
In general, what are the reasons people make a Wikipedia article about someone?
r/wikipedia • u/oneultralamewhiteboy • 9h ago
Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/ptahhotep_ • 18h ago
Great Hymn to the Aten, by the pharaoh Akhenaten (1400 BCE)
en.wikipedia.org
r/wikipedia
•
u/slinkslowdown
•
20h ago
Human Shadow Etched in Stone is thought to be the residue of a person who was sitting at the entrance of the Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/ptahhotep_ • 18h ago
Was-scepter; Ancient Egyptian symbol representing power, the earliest examples of which date to the First Dynasty
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/tyrannosauru • 1d ago
2014 Vrbětice ammunition warehouses explosions – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 1d ago
Mobile Site Thomas Blood is an Irishman who attempted to steal the English crown jewels.
en.m.wikipedia.org
r/wikipedia
•
u/oneultralamewhiteboy
•
1d ago
The Satanic Verses controversy
en.wikipedia.org
r/wikipedia
•
u/First_Level_Ranger
•
2d ago
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union, providing top-secret information about nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/envatted_love • 1d ago
Diel vertical migration: "In terms of biomass, it is the largest synchronous migration in the world." (bonus: article has cool gif)
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/qinghram • 1d ago
How do you usually save articles on your desktop?
I recently dumbed my smartphone and deleted all social media and other time consuming apps (I'd wake up and fall asleep to wikipedia). Then in horror a few weeks later I realized I had nuked a few years of saved articles on the app. I was wondering if people have a good way of saving them on the computer (simple browser bookmark folder? or is there a way to save page if you have an account?)
Thanks.