Case file
Joseph Berlin
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli architect who designed over a hundred buildings”. Today it says “israeli architect who worked in russia and mandatory palestine”.
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 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2020 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.
Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.
1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2020
Joseph Berlin (1877-1952) was an Israeli architect who designed over a hundred buildings, mostly in Tel Aviv . Berlin emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1921. His son Zeev Berlin was also an architect, and the two designed buildings together. זנדברג, אסתר (2004-09-02). "הצבעים הנוספים של העיר הלבנה" . גלובס (in Hebrew) . "הרמוניה מסורתית בפרובינציה מזרח תיכונית" . הארץ (in Hebrew) .1
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 961025040.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli architect who designed over a hundred buildings”. Today it says “israeli architect who worked in russia and mandatory palestine”. Read the current article and compare.
| 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 |
|---|
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2020, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
israeli architect who designed over a hundred buildings
Now
israeli architect who worked in russia and mandatory palestine
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.