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What Wikipedia removed

We saved the opening paragraph of thousands of Wikipedia articles at fixed moments since 2005, then went back to see what changed. These 759 entries are the articles where a tracked word left the opening and did not come back. Every quote is Wikipedia’s own text from our saved copies, and every removal links the edit that made it.

The interactive versions, with each snapshot side by side, are at ilroot.com/case. The measurement behind them is at ilroot.com/drift.

The word is gone from the article entirely, references included.

The word survives further down the article, but not in the part most people read.