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[โ€“] AbouBenAdhem 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gil Amelio keeps refreshing the page to remind himself of his days as Apple CEO.

[โ€“] reddig33 2 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] 7uWqKj 1 points 1 day ago

Like this article in the German Wikipedia, a list of bridges of some random type, which has been in the top 20 for years: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_gr%C3%B6%C3%9Ften_Auslegerbr%C3%BCcken

[โ€“] RustyNova 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe there's some kind of automated health tracker that ping Wikipedia to figure out if it's connected to the internet

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if that also explains why "null" is another common top article

[โ€“] jacksilver 2 points 20 hours ago

I could definitely see that being an issue where some people with automated wiki workflows are accidentally stringifying a null value and looking it up