Omar Koshan: what Wikipedia removed
Omar Koshan is a Twelver Shi’i festival marking the end of the mourning period following the death of Husayn ibn Ali at Karbala in 680 AD. Through the 2020 snapshot the opening described this period as following ‘the events of the Karbala massacre, which occurred in 680 AD.’ Today the opening calls the same event the Battle of Karbala, and massacre appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns it was a battle, and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once named it a massacre.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| islamist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| jihad | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The article’s earlier framing under the name Eid-e-Shuja was reworded to the current Omar Koshan framing.
- The naming of the 680 AD event as the Karbala massacre is gone; the opening now calls it the Battle of Karbala, and massacre appears nowhere in the article.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 360507568):
9th Rabi-al-Awwal 1429 A.H. - Eid-e-Zahra. Also known as Eid-e-Shuja. This is the day of Eid for Shia Muslims and marks the end of the mourning period after the events of the Battle of Karbala . According to Ulema, this is the day when the key murderers of Imam Hussain, Umar ibn Sa’ad and Ubaidullah ibn-e-Ziyad were killed and sent to Hell. Many Muslims prepare for Eid by applying intricate designs called mehndi, or in some cultures mehandi, to different parts of the body usually each meaning different things. This event for shia Muslims is held on 9th Rabi-al-Awwal. There isn’t a specific date since Muslims follow the lunar calendar.
2025 (revision 1288832510):
Shi’i festival celebrating the death of Umar Omar Koshan ( Persian : عمرکشان , “the Killing of Umar”), also known as Jashn-e Hazrat-e Zahra (“Celebration of Fatima al-Zahra’ ”), is a yearly festival held by some Twelver Shi’i Muslims in Iran . Originally, the festival commemorated the assassination of the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (also spelled ‘Omar’, c. 583–644) by the Persian slave Abu Lu’lu’a Firuz . In its current form, it begins on the 9th day of the month of Rabi’ al-Awwal of the Islamic year , and lasts until the 27th of the same month. It is a carnival -type of festival in which social roles are reversed and communal norms upturned. It generally functions as a more lighthear…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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