50 stories tagged wikipedia, newest first.
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
162 points by jruohonen | 155 comments
LSE Impact Blog post by Helen Choi arguing that academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems such as Wikipedia.
18 points by benbreen | 1 comments
Wikipedia article on Ui-te-Rangiora, a legendary Polynesian navigator said to have sailed into Antarctic waters around the 7th century.
22 points by peter_d_sherman | 4 comments
Wikipedia article on the orbital angular momentum of light, a property of light beams associated with their helical wavefront structure.
64 points by theanonymousone | 18 comments
Wikipedia article on hatching in heraldry, a system of lines and dots used to indicate tinctures in monochrome depictions of coats of arms.
18 points by ldite | 2 comments
Wikipedia article on the shit flow diagram (excreta flow diagram), a tool for visualizing how human waste is managed in urban sanitation systems.
4 points by mudil | 0 comments
Wikipedia article on Roko's basilisk, a thought experiment about a future superintelligent AI punishing those who did not help bring it into existence.
129 points by jasontr | 57 comments
An interactive art history museum built from Wikipedia data, showing artists and art movements on a zoomable timeline gallery wall and a star map view.
228 points by brokensegue | 163 comments
Wikimedia Foundation Diff blog post reporting activity by so-called rogue OpenAI agents on Wikimedia projects, including attempted intrusions and coordination via wikis.
95 points by tiagod | 25 comments
Wikipedia article on Martian chaos terrain, regions of jumbled blocks, mesas and valleys on Mars thought to be linked to ancient water outflow.
509 points by inigyou | 94 comments
Wikipedia article on olo, an imaginary color seen only by using lasers to stimulate exclusively the M cone cells of the retina.
465 points by cdrnsf | 275 comments
Medium essay by Jake Orlowitz arguing Wikipedia/Wikimedia has adopted big tech's anti-labor practices; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
484 points by smusamashah | 111 comments
A web app that lets users browse Wikipedia through a simulated Windows XP desktop interface with icons for Wikipedia, Media, and a Geofile Explorer.
402 points by tkhattra | 82 comments
Wikipedia biography of Michael O. Rabin, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, 1976 Turing Award co-recipient, who died April 14, 2026.
563 points by jensgk | 204 comments
Landing page for Project N.O.M.A.D., a free open-source system for running Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools offline on your own hardware.
1017 points by greyface- | 370 comments
Wikimedia Foundation status page reporting an incident where wikis were placed in read-only mode, with investigating and identified updates on Mar 5, 2026.
565 points by nobody9999 | 341 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and is removing about 695,000 archive links after DDoS and snapshot-tampering allegations.
379 points by rebane2001 | 126 comments
Xikipedia is a pseudo social media feed that shows Simple Wikipedia articles, using a local non-ML algorithm that learns what you engage with.
688 points by robertvc | 286 comments
Wikipedia article on the 1979 escape of two families from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon.
333 points by wilson090 | 109 comments
Wikipedia list of individual trees notable for their historical, national, locational, natural, or mythological significance around the world.
509 points by easton | 398 comments
A site celebrating the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia; the captured page showed only a blue gradient background with no content.
335 points by eieio | 59 comments
Wikipedia article on 1000 Blank White Cards, a party card game in which players create the deck and its rules on the cards during play.
386 points by gmays | 358 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Wikipedia says its human traffic is declining because of AI search summaries and social video platforms.
534 points by leotravis10 | 396 comments
A Verge feature on how Wikipedia has endured attacks and remained resilient through its neutrality policies and history, with Jimmy Wales.
414 points by gyomu | 248 comments
Wikipedia article on "The staff ate it later," a caption shown on Japanese TV programs indicating food used in filming was eaten rather than thrown away.
1024 points by phlummox | 786 comments
BBC News article reporting that Wikipedia lost its legal challenge against verification rules under the UK's Online Safety Act.
614 points by danso | 203 comments
Wikimedia Foundation news post from 11 August 2025 about its legal challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations.
319 points by Nurw | 155 comments
Wikimedia Foundation news post announcing its legal challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations, dated 17 July 2025.
326 points by dcminter | 72 comments
Wikipedia article about Larry, the tabby cat serving as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011.
509 points by TheLadyParadox | 287 comments
A Substack essay by Utsav Mamoria on living an intellectually rich life, opening with the Wikipedia first-link game that leads to Philosophy.
321 points by pera | 123 comments
Wikipedia article on International Workers' Day (May Day), the 1 May celebration of workers promoted by the international labour movement, and its origins.
834 points by coloneltcb | 746 comments
Washington Post article reporting that D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin sent a letter accusing Wikipedia of propaganda and questioning its nonprofit tax status.
1295 points by Group_B | 206 comments
WikiTok is a web app that presents random Wikipedia articles in a TikTok-style vertical scrolling feed; the screenshot shows it still loading.
644 points by intunderflow | 381 comments
Wikipedia article on the ANI vs. Wikimedia Foundation case, with its content suspended by the Wikimedia Foundation following a Delhi High Court order.
331 points by Brajeshwar | 117 comments
Wikipedia article on Ratan Tata, former chairman of Tata Sons, flagged as being heavily edited following his recent death.
466 points by tjake | 133 comments
Foojay.io article by DataStax CTO Jonathan Ellis on building a vector index of all Wikipedia on a laptop using Java tools.
332 points by benbreen | 139 comments
Wikipedia article on Antarctic English, the variety of English spoken by scientists and workers in Antarctica and the subantarctic islands.
348 points by udev4096 | 83 comments
NearbyWiki is an interactive map web app that shows Wikipedia-listed places near a chosen location.
443 points by gone35 | 90 comments
Wikipedia article on 6174, Kaprekar's constant, the fixed point reached by repeatedly subtracting ascending from descending digit arrangements of four-digit numbers.
367 points by fortran77 | 84 comments
A post by @depthsofwiki noting that the Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since 2003 and none of its original phrases remain.
455 points by bawolff | 485 comments
Open-access American Political Science Review article examining how rule ambiguity and institutional clashes shaped Wikipedia's governance and community.
360 points by alexmolas | 198 comments
Colin Morris's 2022 blog post exploring how to find the least viewed articles on Wikipedia using pageview data and the API.
346 points by penguin_booze | 219 comments
Wikipedia article on 'telling the bees', a European folk tradition of informing beehives about important household events like deaths and marriages.
327 points by axelfontaine | 135 comments
Catholic News Agency article on how Wikipedia displayed an incorrect Vatican City flag for years, leading to inaccurate flags spreading widely.
487 points by janpio | 160 comments
Blog post by Nicholas Ray describing how Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time was reduced by about 300ms through front-end performance work.
363 points by akolbe | 318 comments
Wikipedia Signpost news article from 22 May 2023 reporting record severance payments made to departing executives at the Wikimedia Foundation.
401 points by doener | 207 comments
Tweet by Jimmy Wales contrasting Wikipedia's court fight against Turkey's ban with Elon Musk's decision to restrict tweets in Turkey.
351 points by shaklee3 | 611 comments
A Wikipedia user essay by Giraffedata arguing that "comprised of" is poor phrasing and explaining his long-running effort to replace it across articles.
646 points by oboes | 86 comments
Wikipedia user page of Junnn11, an arthropod enthusiast who creates paleontological reconstruction illustrations of extinct arthropods.
427 points by mothershipper | 309 comments
Wikipedia article on dishwasher salmon, an American dish of foil-wrapped salmon cooked by a dishwasher's heat, popularized by Vincent Price in 1975.