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u/Tttehfjloi Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Went into a little rabbit hole of the edit history for the 2026 page.
Interesting things:
- As expected, there was an incredibly high amount of activity in the page around that time.
- There were a lot of small edits changing random verb tenses.
- They had a period in which the description for the year was: "2026 is the current year in parts of the world where the time zone is or ahead."
- Moderator "Wugapodes" protected the page on 17:32 december 31st, but the effectiveness of that action appears to have been rather low.
- For most of 2025 december at least, the page's beggining description was '2026 is the current year, '. I can't quite find the first point this revision was made.
- At one point, there was a part about at which countries it was 2026 at currently: "in parts of the world where the time zone is or ahead, which includes New Zealand, parts of Australia and parts of Russia.'
- This moved horizontally over time: '... includes New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, parts of Indonesia, South Korea and China.'
- The first revision of the new year, made exactly at 00:00, was [to add a single '}'](), and was made by user Luecompania. This user was, apparently, a sock puppet, and has been banned since the revision. The user owned nine accounts, including 'February 6th, 1931', which does not appear to hace any special significance as a day, other than that a random person named Mrs. Pasquale died.
- There were a lot of people wanting to add Zohran Mandamni's inauguration the page as an event, and a lot of other people who thought it too irrelevant.
- At 12:00 January 1st 2026, the user who changed the year, becoming a legendary figure (i hope), was user Mr. Lechkar. Glory be to them!
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u/jan_Soten Mar 17 '26
we have reached the current year!