Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of December 22, 2025

TRUMP is a far-right Belgian Francophone political party. The party is named after American President Donald Trump

The Sovereign Wealth Fund of Norway, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, officially crossed the $2 trillion USD mark in October 2025. The fund derives its financial backing from oil profits.

The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel that depicts a White supremacist-led revolution that evolves into a nuclear and race war that murders millions of nonwhites in the process. It is estimated to have influenced perpetrators in over 200 killings, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

An interspecies friendship is a nonsexual bond that is formed between animals of different species. In many cases of interspecies friendship, the species are not normally seen together, and sometimes, one is of a species that ordinarily preys on the other in nature.

Operation Nemesis was a conspiracy by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to assassinate those responsible for the Armenian genocide. It was named after the Greek goddess of divine retribution, Nemesis. Among those killed as a result of the operation was former Ottoman grand vizier Talaat Pasha.

Beginning in the mid-2010s, significant discourse emerged within fan spaces such as Tumblr and Archive of Our Own (AO3) regarding the ethical implications of portraying taboo and abusive sexual content within shipping fanfiction

The Somers Affair: During a voyage in 1842, three U.S. Navy sailors were executed without a court-martial after being accused of plotting to mutiny and use their ship for piracy. The incident drew national attention since one of the three sailors, Philip Spencer, was the son of the Secretary of War.

The discrimination experienced by transgender men has been described using various words [...] Terms used include anti-transmasculinity and transandrophobia. [...] Transandrophobia was coined around 2018 by tumblr user Saint—who writes under the pseudonym Saint Dionysus

Emilia Pérez is a 2024 film. The film follows a Mexican cartel leader who aims to disappear and transition into a woman. In Mexico, the film was panned by both audiences and critics, who criticized its cultural misrepresentation, songwriting, use of stereotypes, and Spanish dialogue.

Upon its release, Mass Effect 3 generated controversy when its ending was poorly received by players who felt that it did not meet their expectations. Criticisms included the ending rendering character choices inconsequential, a general lack of closure, plot holes, and narrative inconsistency.

"The United States of Lyncherdom": In 1901, Mark Twain wrote an essay denouncing the national lynching epidemic. He blamed lynching on a herd mentality which he said prevailed amongst Americans. Twain shelved the essay after deciding that the country was not ready for its message.

Badgers is an animation by Jonti Picking, also known as Mr Weebl.

Somalia will assume the Presidency of the UN Security Council on January 1st 2026

"The Goyim Defense League (GDL) is an American far-right, neo-Nazi loosely organized network of individuals founded by Jon Minadeo II who operate an online video platform called GoyimTV."

A tawaif (Urdu: طوائف) was a highly successful young courtesan singer‚ dancer‚ and poet who catered to the nobility of the Indian subcontinent, particularly during the Mughal era. With fewer opportunities available during the British Raj, many tawaifs transitioned into prostitution.

Juan Latino was a Spanish professor, Latinist, and writer of Ethiopian origin. He is widely recognized as the first African to receive a European university education and hold an academic post in Europe.

The Paleozoic Museum was a proposed attraction that would have featured lifesized sculptures of extinct animals in Manhattan's Central Park. The sculptures were destroyed in May 1871 by vandals who are thought to have been sent by an eccentric sponsor of a rival museum which opened later that month.

One out of every three pistachios grown globally comes from Iran. By 2020, pistachios had become Iran’s second most valuable export, with over 150,000 farmers. Global demand exceeds supply, so Iranian pistachio farmers have no trouble finding buyers including those making Dubai chocolate.

Korea has the longest unbroken chain of slavery of any society in history (spanning about 1,500 - 2,000 years) from its origins in antiquity over 2,000 years ago to its gradual abolition culminating in 1894. Slaves comprised at least 30 percent of the population between the 15th and 17th centuries.

Wrangell Airport (ICAO: PAWG) is a state-owned public-use airport located 2 km northeast of the central business district of Wrangell, a city and borough in Alaska which has no road access to the outside world.

Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke (1652–1683) was an English nobleman, politician and serial killer. Although the murder of the magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, which sparked the Popish Plot, has never been solved, a strong body of evidence points to Pembroke as the killer.

The Blue Diamond Affair is a series of unresolved crimes committed by a Thai employee in the Saudi House of Saud. The theft of 90kg of jewellery soured relations between Thailand and Saudi Arabia, leading to geopolitical implications that severely affected the lives of many people in both countries

The retail apocalypse refers to the closing of numerous brick-and-mortar retail stores in the Western world, especially those of large chains, starting in the 2010s and accelerating due to the mandatory closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Russian wikipedia going crazy with oranges.