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Check your web history for "wikipedia", what are the most recent 5-10 Wikipedia pages you have read?

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mine:

  • Bugsnax
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Doug Ducey
  • Racial discrimination in jury selection
  • Jaguar
  • City of Gastronomy
[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

🎶 Talkin' 'bout Bugsnax 🎶

[–] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago
  • Weimar Republic
  • Good Night White Pride(on German Wikipedia)
  • First Opium War
  • Finland–Russia relations
  • Cambrian
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Always good to stay up to date on WoT.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Taskmaster, as we tried to figure out how big the production team was! I don't think we figured out precisely, but larger than what my husband thought, just going off of how many editors and producers were listed.

[–] Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm super curious with what you roughly came up with! I never would have thought to look it up.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

"More than four people in the room for writing tasks" is what we agreed on lmfao. So a very rough guess (he said less than, I said more than)

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Might it not also depend just on how you define "the production team"? Since editing is often termed "post-production", it would be reasonable to exclude the editors from the "production team". To me that term seems more to imply the lighting, cameras, audio, PAs, and other people actually on set, rather than the task writers or editors.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sure. But we were just going to use production team to get a general idea of how many people were task writing! More people in general probably means more task writers! It was all very slap dash guessing on our part!

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Vitamin B7 (Biotin)

I was looking up whether it is fat- or water soluble, because the former can be dangerous to your liver if you are taking supplements like I do. This was the only vitamin with far over 100% the recommended amount in said supplement.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
  • 2-Pyrrolidone
  • Fatah al-Islam
  • Proto-Afroasiatic Language
  • Atemrhythmisch angepasste Phonation (respiratory rhythmically adapted phonation?)
  • Atemstütze (respiratory support)

The most recent one had to do with a drug I took in Disco Elysium - wanted to see if it actually exists.

Not sure about the second most recent anymore.

In university, I had learned about proto-indoeuropean and wanted to see if there's a common language ancestor for African language. Turns out there are several origin languages.

And the last two have to do with my SLP apprenticeship. Both are concepts learned about in voice therapy and the latter is also a concept learned about with singers

[–] callyral@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wanted to know the difference between them because I was drawing digitally and changed the color picker settings.

I was wondering why we forget stuff when walking into a different room sometimes.

I don't remember—but I know the compose key is useful.

I was looking at different spins of Fedora Linux, and saw the Budgie version, which I hadn't heard of before.

Saw a post on Lemmy about recent protests in the US so I went and checked how big protests were.

It was Father's Day in some places, but not where I live, so I was curious about Father's Day dates.

  • Herbert Hoover
  • List of Extinct Dog Breed
  • United States Senate Elections 2026 in [State]
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Gengar
  • Rodolph Mooshammer
  • Hermaphrodite
  • Cockroach
  • Jinn
  • Vorratsdatenspeicherung
[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago
[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

...i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate

...that's really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday...

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like the Wikipedia app

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Just the Wikipedia app from the android app store

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you were able to see what IP addresses had visited a Wikipedia page, would you be able to take the lists here, assume a reasonable time period going back, and identify uniquely which addresses had visited all 5 (or more) pages listed by each commenter?

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Lucky you can't, I guess?

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 2 days ago
  • Parallel ATA
  • Amateur Radio
  • Scandinavian defense
  • History of tablet computers
    • (i was searching for the oldest ones because my friend was asking for tablet recommendations. im hilarious)
  • Magic SysRQ key
[–] NycterVyvver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Chimera (genetics)

Monty Oum

Dodo: Extinct species of bird

Paul Lynde: American comedian and actor

The Plague Dogs (novel): 1977 novel by Richard Adams

Airbus A400M Atlas

Dennis Rader: American serial killer

Neville Goddard: Barbadian writer

Potentilla norvegica: Species of flowering plant

Orestes: Figure in Greek mythology

[–] Darohan@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago
  • Lies of P
  • List of games in Star Trek
  • Mao (Card Game)
  • Cotton-eyed Joe
  • Psychopathology
  • Myers-Briggs type indicator

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[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago
[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm curious how 1840 came up.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago
  1. Native Americans in the United States
  2. File Allocation Table
  3. Load (Album)
  4. Sentience
  5. Inverted Nipple
[–] AbsolutePain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My browser history clears after every session.

I believe I last visited it to read the synopsis for the 2017 film The Ritual.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 2 days ago

I don't keep a browser history at all, but my most recent visit was to:

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago
[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fluid construction grammar
Unscented transform
Heteroglossia
Lorenz system
Relict (biology)
Yuezhi

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Are you a palaeoclimatologist who is struggling to convince someone of something?

[–] Alcan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I have in my Obsidian Daily Note a "Today's random data" and this has brings me the last five days:

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I just checked out the article about the active volcano in Réunion Island, named Le Piton de la Fournaise. That's because I am staying there this month and hoping to catch some lava (not with my hands, duh. I will use a bucket).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton_de_la_Fournaise

From there I read about the Deccan Trapps, a large western part of the indian subcontinent that was pretty much formed by serial lava flows about 60MY ago. Then I was led to the article about LIPs (large igneous provinces), and I'm still falling down that rabbit hole as we speak. Fascinating stuff
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapps_du_Deccan

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In case you were wondering:

The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity and does not consider an eruption imminent.

Interestingly, the buildup of magma causes the plateau to be uplifted by about 1 in. per year on average, which is one of the ways we monitor it. NASA studied how we could go about preventing an imminent eruption by cooling the magma, but another scientist said we could accidentally trigger it by trying. We may have to wait for something else for our next extinction event though. Yellowstone going off again soon would be a bit ahead of schedule.

Most of the other articles were just fleetingly topical to a conversation or book or something. Cymothoa exigua is interesting though. It's a fish parasite that severs the tongue of its host and effectively replaces it. I think I looked at it from another thread where people were posting their favorite deep sea animals.

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[–] konalt@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

My desktop ones are probably different

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Mine:

In a fun piece of trivia, I was looking up Katee Sackhoff because I was trying to find out who did the voice for Bitch Pudding on Robot Chicken and then laughed my ass off when I realized it was the same lady who played Bo-Katan Kryze in The Mandalorian. I really need a Robot Chicken sketch with Bo-Katan going all Bitch Pudding on the Mando now. BLAM!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_in_loop_theory_and_quasigroup_theory

And I'm pretty sure a bunch of other pages related to loops and quasigroups. I don't still have them open, though.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

plants family mostly the ones that evolved to lose thier chlorophyll (specific familys, and thier phyologeny) then search for research papers for in depths explanations.

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