In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of hebron”. Today it says “palestinian village located twenty kilometers”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of hebron”. Today it says “palestinian village located twenty kilometers”.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Village in West Bank, Palestine For other uses, see Burj . Municipality type D in Hebron, State of Palestine Al-Burj ( Arabic : البرج ) is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers (12 mi) southwest of Hebron , in the Hebron Governorate of State of Palestine , in the southern West Bank . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the village had a population of 3,205 in 2017. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2. Al-Burj is the birth place of Tareq Talahma, Acting Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report).
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1289568728.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Palestinian Authority municipality al-Burj ( ) is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of Hebron .The village is in the Hebron Governorate , southern West Bank . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the village had a population of 2,578 464 in 2007. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 362673316.
The opening as it stood in 2015
Palestinian Authority municipality al-Burj ( ) is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of Hebron . The village is in the Hebron Governorate , southern West Bank . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the village had a population of 2,578 in 2007. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 614566195.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Municipality type D in Hebron, State of Palestine al-Burj ( ) is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of Hebron . The village is in the Hebron Governorate , southern West Bank . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the village had a population of 2,578 in 2007. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 965155109.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Municipality type D in Hebron, State of Palestine Al-Burj ( ) is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers (12 mi) southwest of Hebron , in the Hebron Governorate of State of Palestine , in the southern West Bank . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the village had a population of 2,578 in 2007. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1176693141.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of hebron”. Today it says “palestinian village located twenty kilometers”. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2025.
Then
palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of hebron
Now
palestinian village located twenty kilometers
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
