In 2017, someone changed Wikipedia's Vatican flag SVG to look more like the Vatican Coat of Arms, which was an honest mistake. Now, you can tell which flag manufacturers and even emojis used the faulty Wikipedia file lol (thread)
noticed by Redditor horizontalhole!
tons of flags have red in the tiara... AKA they appear to have used that faulty file that was on Wikimedia Commons from 2017-2022
and even some emojis have the error! (this is from emojipedia)
ok seems like people liked hearing about the green and black mode... so here are some cool wikipedia tools, scripts, and settings that you probably didn't know about!
one of the easiest ways to get Wikipedia dark mode is preferences --> gadgets --> dark mode toggle, which gives you this button to toggle between light and dark
wanna know if the article you're reading is good? you can make the article's title color can correspond to the article's quality rating!
preferences --> gadgets--> display an assessment of an article's quality in its page header
"Index" has been trending on Wikipedia for the past 10 days and nobody knows why! Maybe people are getting REALLY into statistical composite measures, but it's probably just someone's poorly-configured bot
Reminds me of when the article for "Cookie (informatique)" totally dominated French Wikipedia in late 2022. It was getting like 50x more views than any other article. Probably bots? sfgate.com/tech/article/f…
Wikipedia editors CANNOT DECIDE WHAT TO CALL THIS THING. By my unofficial count, the 15-year-long debate is ~65k words — as long as a novel (thread)
Here is a small sample of impassioned subsections on the talk page of the "Maize" article. The total debate is about as long as books like The Fault in Our Stars and Brave New World
Let's start from the beginning. The "maize" article was created in 2001, one of Wikipedia's first few thousand articles. Since then, there have been official requests to change it to corn in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2022. None have been successful
Thread of bad submissions to wikipedia logo contests! First up: a bunch of encyclopedias mashed together to form a centipede (a "wikipede") wearing groucho glasses (2003)
2001
this one was almost selected in 2001! but then it lost to a white globe that's relatively similar to the current logo