Israel–Palestine
Gaza war
1 confirmed rewrite episode; the largest by persistence-weighted mass had a 32.4% durable-spine drop. Wording shifted clearly.
Something to inspect — not a judgment of bias or bad faith.
Overview
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Open the live English Wikipedia article ↗Largest by persistence-weighted mass: 32.4% durable-spine drop. See Rewrite for exact revision receipts.
Different websites cited: 198 → 170. We do not rate those sites. See Citations.
2 configured questions checked in more than one language. See Facts.
Compared around the rewrite window. See Framing.
Did editors fight over it?
The page was not dominated by back-and-forth undoing. A quiet rewrite can still matter — it just means few people fought it on the page. About 20,314 recorded revisions in the measure.
Who wrote today’s text?
Half of the wording still on the page is about 1.2 years old or newer. 100.0% was written in the last 3 years. The ten most active accounts wrote 46.4% of what is there now (authorship is more spread out; 541 different accounts overall). Snapshot data on this page runs through 2026-01-01.This is background only — a small group of writers is common on specialist pages.
Available evidence: Rewrite, Vocabulary, Citations, Framing, Facts, Versions.
1 confirmed rewrite episodeA bounded window in which established wording was substantially replaced.
Events bounded by stable revisions where long-lived wording was substantially replaced.
Snapshot corpus through 2026-01-01 (revision 1330571454).
Persistence-weighted changeThe share of wording lost, weighted so text that survived more snapshots counts more. by interval
Each row reports established wording lost, standing wording gained, and paired change as a replacement lead. The bar shows loss for continuity with earlier reports. Below-floor anomalies remain descriptive evidence but cannot receive exact confirmation. A coverage gap is shown descriptively but excluded from detector decisions. Candidate-window labels report the exact revision-level decision for the broader window containing that interval.
How the detector reached this state
- 1 · Coarse scanA snapshot comparison that finds candidate windows for closer inspection.Candidate signal foundThe coarse scan found a deletion-heavy window worth exact checking.
- 2 · Interval scoring2 intervals scoredThe bars below show persistence-weighted wording loss for each interval.
- 3 · Exact checkA revision-level test of whether a candidate window's durable spine collapsed.1 rewrite episode confirmedRevision-level checking found the required durable wording replacement.
- 2025-01-01Loss 72.3%98,425 removed · 0 added PWRConfirmed candidate window: 2024-01-01 → 2026-01-01
- 2026-01-01Loss 49.5%96,436 removed · 0 added PWRConfirmed candidate window: 2024-01-01 → 2026-01-01
| Before | After | Durable change | PWR mass | Duration | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01T00:59:10Z | 2024-01-01T01:43:00Z | 32.4% durable-spine drop | 194,861 | 43 minutes | View redline |
Exact-event attribution: revisions 1192910451 → 1192916451
0 tokensOne tracked unit of text, usually a word or punctuation mark. removed · 0 surviving replacement tokens.
Attribution describes public revision-history associations and origin authorship. It does not establish bias, motive, or misconduct.
Which words grew or shrank?
Words that became more common or less common between the compared versions. Handy for noticing a shift in topic or tone — not a score of bias.
Comparing 2024-01-01 -> 2025-01-01 (around L1 pivot ~2024-01-01). Rough word count: 12,621 → 10,899. Overall: wording shifted clearly.
Used more afterward
- april0 → 19
- nuseirat0 → 14
- yunis0 → 14
- lahia0 → 11
- adwan0 → 9
- polio0 → 9
- serving0 → 8
- vaccination0 → 8
- july1 → 22
- conditions0 → 7
- kitchen0 → 7
- mawasi0 → 7
Used less afterward
- expressed14 → 0
- assembly11 → 0
- social9 → 0
- unsc9 → 0
- blood7 → 0
- having7 → 0
- spokesman7 → 0
- votes7 → 0
- cited6 → 0
- community6 → 0
- letter6 → 0
- position6 → 0
These are the standout words, not a full dictionary of the article. Boring markup words are filtered out. Treat this as a hint, not a conclusion.
How the footnotes changed
How the article's own footnotes changed across the rewrite: which websites and books were cited more or less. We only show the mix — we do not rate sources as good or bad.
Looking at 2024-01-01 → 2026-01-01 (across the L1 pivot ~2024-01-01): 118 websites were cited more (or newly), 129 less (or dropped). Number of footnotes: 1017 → 854. Different websites: 198 → 170.
Mix of citation types: news 82%, web 16%, book 1%, journal 1%, report 0%, press 0% → web 81%, news 19%.
| cited more often | before → after |
|---|---|
| aljazeera.com | 86 → 117 |
| archive.today | 1 → 30 |
| bbc.com | 36 → 60 |
| theguardian.com | 68 → 87 |
| apnews.com | 61 → 75 |
| cnn.com | 25 → 38 |
| axios.com | 4 → 14 |
| ohchr.org | 8 → 15 |
| edition.cnn.com | 27 → 34 |
| cbsnews.com | 7 → 14 |
| amnesty.org | 9 → 16 |
| news.sky.com | 1 → 7 |
| cited less often | before → after |
|---|---|
| ochaopt.org | 44 → 1 |
| reuters.com | 85 → 55 |
| unocha.org | 24 → 0 |
| washingtonpost.com | 36 → 22 |
| aje.io | 13 → 0 |
| youtube.com | 9 → 0 |
| france24.com | 17 → 9 |
| thehill.com | 7 → 0 |
| un.org | 12 → 6 |
| politico.eu | 6 → 0 |
| ynetnews.com | 16 → 10 |
| wsj.com | 15 → 9 |
Counted from the article’s own footnotes. We list domains only — we do not call any source trustworthy or untrustworthy.
Cross-language lead comparison
How the opening of the article presents the topic in different languages. Disagreement is a reason to read carefully, not a final answer.
The English lead text is byte-identical between the before and after revisions in this window, showing no substantive change. The Arabic edition, however, updated its Gaza casualty figures (from ~34,000/19,324 children/9,823 women to 34,622/14,944 children/9,849 women, closer to the English figures) and added explicit causal framing ('in response') linking Israel's declaration of war, blockade, and bombing campaign to the initial Hamas attack, converging its structure toward the English narrative. Spanish, French, and Hebrew leads show no textual changes across their respective before/after snapshots. A persistent contradiction exists between English (1,139 killed, 252 hostages) and Arabic (at least 1,400 killed, 260 at the festival) regarding initial Israeli casualties, unresolved by either edition's edits in this window.
Compared matched historical revisions around the confirmed rewrite from 2024-01-01 to 2026-01-01.
Languages compared: en, ar, he, es, fr.
Version receipts: en: en before / en after · ar: ar before / ar after · he: he before / he after · es: es before / es after · fr: fr before / fr after
| topic | how they compare | English change | other language(s) change | languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israeli deaths/hostages count in initial attack | difference persisted | Before: 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals including 766 civilians and 373 security personnel were killed, while 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive “1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals including 766 civilians and 373 security personnel were killed” After: 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals including 766 civilians and 373 security personnel were killed, while 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive “1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals including 766 civilians and 373 security personnel were killed” | Before: أدى الهجوم إلى مقتل ما لا يقل عن 1400 إسرائيلي بما في ذلك 260 شخصًا في مهرجان رعيم الموسيقي “أدى الهجوم إلى مقتل ما لا يقل عن 1400 إسرائيلي” After: أدى الهجوم إلى مقتل ما لا يقل عن 1400 إسرائيلي بما في ذلك 260 شخصًا في مهرجان رعيم الموسيقي “أدى الهجوم إلى مقتل ما لا يقل عن 1400 إسرائيلي” | AR, ES |
| Palestinian death toll in Gaza | parallel change | Before: more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, with a majority consisting of over 14,000 children and 9,000 women “more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, with a majority consisting of over 14,000 children and 9,000 women” After: more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, with a majority consisting of over 14,000 children and 9,000 women “more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, with a majority consisting of over 14,000 children and 9,000 women” | Before: إرتفع قتلى غزة إلى34000 بينهم 19324 طفلاً و9823 امرأة “إرتفع قتلى غزة إلى34000 بينهم 19324 طفلاً و9823 امرأة” After: أدى الهجوم الإسرائيلي إلى مقتل 34,622 فلسطينيًا في غزة، منهم 14,944 طفلًا و9,849 إمرأة “أدى الهجوم الإسرائيلي إلى مقتل 34,622 فلسطينيًا في غزة، منهم 14,944 طفلًا و9,849 إمرأة” | AR, ES |
| Arabic edition added causal/response framing and updated casualty synthesis | English converged | Before: In response, Israel declared a state of war, tightened its blockade and launched one of the deadliest and most destructive bombing campaigns in modern history “In response, Israel declared a state of war, tightened its blockade” After: In response, Israel declared a state of war, tightened its blockade and launched one of the deadliest and most destructive bombing campaigns in modern history “In response, Israel declared a state of war, tightened its blockade” | Before: بدأت قوات إسرائيل هجومها باستعادة السيطرة على المستوطنات التي سبق لقوات حماس السيطرة عليها كما نَفَّذَت غارات جوية على قطاع غزة، أدى الهجوم إلى مقتل 2,750 فلسطينيًا “أدى الهجوم إلى مقتل 2,750 فلسطينيًا إلى حدود 15 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول” After: ردًا على ذلك، بدأت قوات إسرائيل هجومها باستعادة السيطرة على المستوطنات... وأعلنت حالة الحرب وشددت حصارها وشنت واحدة من أكثر حملات القصف دموية وتدميرًا في التاريخ الحديث “وأعلنت حالة الحرب وشددت حصارها وشنت واحدة من أكثر حملات القصف دموية وتدميرًا في التاريخ الحديث” | AR |
| English and other editions unchanged in this snapshot window | unclear change | Before: An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in and around the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023. “An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups” After: An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in and around the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023. “An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups” | Before: La guerre Israël-Hamas de 2023-2024... est un conflit opposant originellement Israël au Hamas “La guerre Israël-Hamas de 2023-2024” After: La guerre Israël-Hamas de 2023-2024... est un conflit opposant originellement Israël au Hamas “La guerre Israël-Hamas de 2023-2024” | ES, FR, HE |
Differences are invitations to read both sides — not a score of who is right.
Do the languages agree on basic facts?
Simple factual questions checked in several languages. Editions may agree, differ, contradict, or not say enough to tell. That is not a claim about who is right.
On the latest check, 2 questions produced: 1 contradict · 0 compatible difference · 1 agree · 0 not enough said.
| question | today |
|---|---|
| How many total deaths are reported, and among whom? | contradict |
| Numbers diverge sharply (73,000+ vs ≥50,000/≥70,000 vs no total given) and Hebrew edition frames Palestinian deaths as civilians per critics vs combatant/terrorist counts, indicating incompatible framing and figures. | |
| On what date did the war begin? | agree |
| All three editions agree the war began on 7 October 2023. | |
These checks are starting points for a reader. They do not decide who is right.
Versions we used
These are the exact public Wikipedia versions behind the checks on this page. Open any link to read the original. Wikidata item: Q122962941.
| language | comparison point | article title | version | when | text used (chars) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| en | before | Gaza war | open version 1222571220 | 2024-05-06T18:13:49Z | 3,000 |
| en | after | Gaza war | open version 1222590616 | 2024-05-06T20:16:01Z | 3,000 |
| ar | before | الحرب الفلسطينية الإسرائيلية (2023–الآن) | open version 66830470 | 2024-05-06T11:34:43Z | 3,000 |
| ar | after | الحرب الفلسطينية الإسرائيلية (2023–الآن) | open version 66844878 | 2024-05-08T10:41:52Z | 3,000 |
| he | before | זירת רצועת עזה במלחמת חרבות ברזל | open version 38597137 | 2024-05-06T18:13:15Z | 1,400 |
| he | after | זירת רצועת עזה במלחמת חרבות ברזל | open version 38597753 | 2024-05-06T20:24:29Z | 1,400 |
| es | before | Guerra de Gaza | open version 159949180 | 2024-05-06T18:05:44Z | 3,000 |
| es | after | Guerra de Gaza | open version 159954507 | 2024-05-06T22:35:13Z | 3,000 |
| fr | before | Guerre de Gaza depuis 2023 | open version 214882482 | 2024-05-06T16:20:00Z | 3,000 |
| fr | after | Guerre de Gaza depuis 2023 | open version 214891235 | 2024-05-06T22:26:07Z | 3,000 |