Language drift · every paragraph version since 2003
How Wikipedia's words for history changed.
The words chosen for an event carry a point of view. Pick a topic to see which words Finnish Wikipedia used for it, year by year, and the edits where one word replaced another.
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Where one word replaced another
How this is counted: one scan over 495,581 distinct paragraph texts, joined to 593,195 paragraph lifetimes in a system-versioned MariaDB table with real Wikipedia edit times. An article uses a word at the end of a year when one of its paragraphs live at that moment contains it. For the 1918 topics, only paragraphs that also mention 1918 count, so the Spanish or Estonian wars of the same name stay out. A replacement is one edit in which a paragraph lost one word and gained the other.