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35 votes
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Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia'
39 votes -
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
29 votes -
Wikipedia is resilient because it’s boring
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Hector (cloud)
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Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act verification rules
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Invacar
10 votes -
Swiss embassy radio
8 votes -
Disappearing polymorph
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I wrote my first Chrome extension to simplify Wikipedia articles
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The title of Unofficial Football World Champion is currently held by Sweden – won from Algeria in a friendly played in Stockholm on 10th June 2025
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Jizz (Birding)
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List of eponymous laws
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Highlighting text in Wikipedia scrolls up too fast?
To be honest I have some problems explaining what I mean, which might be why I can't find a solution or explanaition for it. I use firefox on Linux and out of habit i highlight text while reading...
To be honest I have some problems explaining what I mean, which might be why I can't find a solution or explanaition for it.
I use firefox on Linux and out of habit i highlight text while reading it. I always did that and it helps me to read a lot faster and to relax my eyes while reading. It's something i don't think i can get rid of, even if I tried, it's just so deeply burned in.
As well I use to scroll the text I'm reading to the top out of the same reasons or maybe it's just habit as well, but I realised I cannot get rid of it as well :-)So no to my problem:
Usually this works flawless, i can highlight text and have the cursor where I'm reading in the topmost visible line. But for some strange reason this does not work in the "new" wikipedia layout. where if I highlight text in the upper third of the page it scrolls upwards quite fast which just fucks up everything and makes my day bad. (this behaviour is not present in the old design which e.g. the germand wikipedia still uses)Is it me?
Is it my browser?
Is there a way to get rid of this, so I can keep my workflow while reading and learing on wikipedia? Is somebody else observing this behaviour?
Where can I even start to look for a solution? I don't even know what to look for.It truly bothers me, as I'm close to every day on it, and it might be my favorite website.
I heard there is a way to switch to the old wikipedia layout, which might be a workaround. But I actually like the new Layout a lot, so if there is a way to avoid that it would be great :-)18 votes -
TIL there's a region in northeastern India (Mawsynram) that receives around 11,872mm (467.4 in) of rain each year
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"EPIC 2014" / Googlezon - an alternative history of media evolution
9 votes -
A Texas horned toad once survived thirty-one years in a time capsule
20 votes -
Thor Bjørklund's ostehøvel, a popular cheese slicer which developed into an important Norwegian export, celebrates 100 this year
21 votes -
Cheomseongdae: the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in East Asia
8 votes -
Mean World Syndrome - moderate to heavy exposure to violence-related content in mass media may cause people to perceive the world to be more dangerous than it is
36 votes -
WikiTok
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US documents say Project 2025’s creators The Heritage Foundation want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors of pages related to Palestine conflict using powerful tools
33 votes -
US based The Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
81 votes -
1891 New Orleans lynchings
7 votes -
Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
78 votes -
ADE 651
14 votes -
Epiousion
18 votes -
The editors protecting Wikipedia from AI hoaxes
18 votes -
US ultrarunner Camille Herron involved in Wikipedia controversy
19 votes -
International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2024
18 votes -
The glass door of Wikipedia’s notable people
10 votes -
Tune into the soulful sounds of someone making edits to a Wikipedia page
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The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War
26 votes -
In search of: audiobook versions of The Worst Witch series
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In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep (1988)
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Wikipedia’s mobile website finally gets a dark mode — here’s how to turn it on
27 votes -
Anti-Defamation League faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism
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Wikipedia's Philosophy game: A breakdown, and how someone broke it
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Wikipedia "AI" Chrome extension
19 votes -
The Abilene paradox
26 votes -
Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel
36 votes -
Weird Wings: The Boeing YC-14 and the McDonnell Douglas YC-15
15 votes -
An archive of Wikipedia from Thursday, December 20, 2001
18 votes -
List of unusual units of measurement
14 votes -
The Curse on Showtime/Paramount+ (Nathan Fielder, Emma Stone, Bennie Safdie)
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The Hofmann Wobble - Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
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What's your favorite Wikipedia page and why?
Personally, I like to check the South Park Controversies Page every now and then. The page on Quantum Entanglement is fascinating and has so many rabbit hole links that lead to other rabbit holes...
Personally, I like to check the South Park Controversies Page every now and then.
The page on Quantum Entanglement is fascinating and has so many rabbit hole links that lead to other rabbit holes themselves. I still go back and re-read them here and there to improve my understanding and check for laymen's updates without all pop-science nonsense you encounter elsewhere.
I'll come back and post a few more when I can think of them!
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Opinions on stand up meetings
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Vavilovian mimicry
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How one man rewrote one thousand years of history
6 votes