Timeline of al-Shabaab-related events: what Wikipedia removed
This is the introductory line for a timeline of events tied to al-Shabaab, the Somali militant group. On October 6, 2023, the opening described the timeline as covering “the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab.” Today the opening instead calls al-Shabaab “militants,” and the word “jihad” occurs nowhere in the article. A reader today learns that al-Shabaab is a militant group, not that Wikipedia’s own opening once called it a jihadist group.
The word “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 21. 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 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jihad | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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 changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2020 (revision 965038813):
This article contains a timeline of events for the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab .
2025 (revision 1295181814):
The following is an incomplete list of events related to al-Shabaab militants .
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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