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Grand Mosque of Dakar

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the most important religious buildings in the capital of senegal”. Today it says “mosque in dakar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Religious building in Senegal The Dakar”. It now reads “Mosque in Dakar, Senegal”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
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The opening as it read in 2020

Grand Mosque ( ) is one of the most important religious buildings in Dakar , Senegal . It is situated on Allée Pape Gueye Fall .

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 952818698.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the most important religious buildings in the capital of senegal”. Today it says “mosque in dakar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Religious building in Senegal The Dakar”. It now reads “Mosque in Dakar, Senegal”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

one of the most important religious buildings in the capital of senegal

Now

mosque in dakar

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