Wikipedia’s Most Controversial Articles Revealed

Scientists at Oxford University in the United Kingdom have developed a way to measure the level of controversy a Wikipedia page is causing, according to a report from the BBC earlier today. The most controversial topics are unlikely to surprise the more worldly, though some of the local conflicts may even be of interest to the cynics.

The most controversial pages across ten languages on Wikipedia were Israel, Adolf Hitler, The Holocaust and God. The first three of those topics all stem form a cultural fascination with the most destructive war in human history, and the anti-Semitic movement that drove...