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Scraping .svg images from Wikipedia into Google Sheets?

How can I scrape .svg images from Wikipedia into Google Sheets?What I've discovered so far:Google Sheets'IMAGE() function doesn't work for .svg filesThe images I want to grab from Wikipedia are .svg...

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How can I see my browsing history on Wikipedia? [duplicate]

As a registered user I can see the list of articles I read in the iOS app on my phone. How can I see the same on the desktop?It would be really useful to have one merged list with all viewed articles...

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Shift heading levels

When editing Wikipedia, I want to turn several sections into subsections in order to group them into one section. So within them, I have to turn section headings into subsection headings, but also...

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How can I find out who wrote a certain section of an article in Wikipedia?

Version control systems typically call this feature "blaming someone". For each line, it shows you who modified it and when.Update: I'm looking for a solution for articles with thousands of edits as...

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What happens when someone changes a Wikipedia page?

I read a few articles so far about the Wikipedia edit...

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Is this behaviour correct when using the Wikipedia search box?

I am searching using two key words "statue" and "liberté" on the French Wikipédia page:None of the first 3 results are even remotely close to the article I am looking for (why are these results even in...

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How to wikilink to a specific section?

This article has the following wikilink:[[Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers|Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition]]This wikilink points to the top of the Gabriel Knight: Sins...

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Who has the final say in editing disputes on Wikipedia?

Wikipedia's premise is that anyone can edit an article. While it's true, whoever tries to edit articles (especially of living people) knows it's not that easy to make a claim stick. There is a ton of...

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Is there a tool to show all images for all Wikipedia pages in a specific...

For example, let's say I want to see a list of all wikipedia pages in the category trees with the first image list in each article.Is there any tool out there right now to do this? It seems like maybe...

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How can I know how many people have their own page on Wikipedia? [closed]

I want to know how many people have been famous (=have their own Wikipedia page) since the beginning of time.Is there a way I can see all the articles of the same category? Maybe querying the entire...

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How to check why a fair use image was removed from Wikipedia?

I visited a Wikipedia page about cartoons created by the Chinese government, whose image I feel would fall under fair use.Going through the article history, I see that there was a link to an image...

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Can I request a translation for a wikipedia page into a non-english language?

Let's say I find a rather useful page that exists in English and other languages but not in mine (French). If I don't want or can't do the translation myself, is there any way I can request a...

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Is there a way a normal user can view very old Wikipedia articles?

There is a deleted Wikipedia article I'm trying to see. It's not on the Wayback Machine or archive.is, and it was deleted 2006, before Deletionpedia started, so I can't find it there. Is there any sort...

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Major contributors to a Wikipedia article

The history of a Wikipedia article contains many contributors, most of them are minor (e.g. typo correction or adding a link). Usually there are 1-3 major contributors. Is there an automatic way to get...

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Set language of Wikipedia article on mobile page

I want to change the language of a Wikipedia article, as you would do on the left navigation bar in desktop view.Unfortunately I can't find the functionality on mobile view without switching to desktop...

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Passing from a Wikipedia english page to the same page in another language...

I'm wondering if there is a way to pass from a Wikipedia page in English to the same Wikipedia page in another language (e.g. Italian). I don't want to translate the English page in Italian, I want to...

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How can I get rid of Dark Mode from MinervaNeue on Desktop Wikipedia? [closed]

I am a logged-in user on Wikipedia, and I began to use the MinervaNeue theme by changing my user preferences the last time I logged onto Wikipedia. This was for the purpose of using dark mode. However,...

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What are the different "classes" for Wikipedia biography articles and what do...

Note, this is my first time on this stack exchange, I did look at other questions here to see if mine would be appropriate, and based on the other questions in the "wikipedia" tag I decided to ask it...

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Is it possible to have a feed of "today's featured article" from Wikipedia in...

I'd like to add an RSS feed of "today's featured article" and possibly "in the news" to my RSS reader. Is this possible?

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Is there a way to recover one's Wikipedia contributions?

Some ten years ago, I've created about a dozen of wikipedia articles, especially on the Russian Wikipedia.Years went by, and almost all of them got deleted, for completely ridiculous reasons, and very...

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