Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information:

1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt.

2. A lawyer changed specific laws on Wikipedia and waited, as expected, judges were caught using the "fabricated law" against real cases with real consequences.

I could go on and on, but hey, you do you :)

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by capitainenemo » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

h4kunamata wrote: post #7

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…

I was wondering what the heck ① was all about and found this site in a search that seems to have a bone to pick with Thomas Lockley. https://japanese-with-naoto.com/2024/07/10/perfidious-histor... https://japanese-with-naoto.com/2024/05/29/disappointment-in...

First I've heard about this controversy, and I've never played the game, but I could see if a historian was a cite for something and they were saying different things in japanese and english, that the english wikipedia would end up citing inaccurate things.

There's been problems in the past with the deletionist faction on wikipedia or moderators abusing small fiefdoms - some of which has even ended up here on HN, but in this case, wikipedia just citing information from a supposedly reputable source seems to be wikipedia operating as intended.

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by capitainenemo » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC

gnatman wrote: post #6

Cool! I’ve been using this bookmark for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

Which is denser on information, faster to read, more accessible and works without javascript.

I did whitelist the orangecrumb domain for JS temporarily though. Does look neat, but not the the sort of interface I'm into.

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by TZubiri » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC

5 stars, delved