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Taipei Grand Mosque

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “largest and most famous mosque in taiwan with a total area of 2”. Today it says “mosque located in the da'an district of taipei city”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Mosque in Da'an, Taipei, Taiwan Taipei Grand Mosque at night The Taipei Grand Mosque ( Chinese : 台北清真寺 ; pinyin : Táiběi Qīngzhēnsì ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Tâi-pak Chheng-chin-sī ) or”. It now reads “Mosque in Da'an, Taipei, Taiwan”.
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The opening as it read in 2020

Taipei Grand Mosque at night The Taipei Grand Mosque ( Chinese : 台北清真寺 ; pinyin : Táiběi Qīngzhēnsì ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Tâi-pak Chheng-chin-sī ) is the largest and most famous mosque in Taiwan with a total area of 2,747 square metres (29,570 ft ). Located in the Daan District of Taipei City , it is Taiwan's most important Islamic structure and was registered as a historic landmark on 29 June 1999 by the Taipei City Government .1

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 938590087.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “largest and most famous mosque in taiwan with a total area of 2”. Today it says “mosque located in the da'an district of taipei city”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Mosque in Da'an, Taipei, Taiwan Taipei Grand Mosque at night The Taipei Grand Mosque ( Chinese : 台北清真寺 ; pinyin : Táiběi Qīngzhēnsì ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Tâi-pak Chheng-chin-sī ) or”. It now reads “Mosque in Da'an, Taipei, Taiwan”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

largest and most famous mosque in taiwan with a total area of 2

Now

mosque located in the da'an district of taipei city

Sections that no longer exist

This section existed on October 6, 2023. It is gone today. The current article has no similar heading in its place, and the article is shorter overall. So this is not a heading that got renamed, and it is not a topic that got folded into a bigger section. 2 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 1,323 characters shorter.

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