Wikipedia's first sentence called it “employee of the united states embassy in dhaka and the founder of bangladesh 's first and only lgbt -themed mag”. Today it says “lgbtq+ rights activist”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Employee of the United States embassy in Dhaka and the editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBT magazine”. It now reads “LGBTQ-rights activist from Bangladesh”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Xulhaz Mannan ( Bengali : জুলহাজ মান্নান , pronounced [dʒulɦaz manːan] ; 12 October 1976 – 25 April 2016) was an employee of USAID at the United States embassy in Dhaka and the founder of Bangladesh 's first and only LGBT -themed magazine, Roopbaan ( Bengali : রূপবান ). He was killed in his apartment along with another LGBT activist Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in a machete attack by Islamist extremists.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Employee of the United States embassy in Dhaka and the editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBT magazine Xulhaz Mannan ( ; 12 October 1976 – 25 April 2016) was an employee of the United States embassy in Dhaka and the founder of Bangladesh 's first and only LGBT -themed magazine Roopbaan . He was killed in his apartment along with another LGBT activist Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in a machete attack by Islamist extremists.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 963833778.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Founder of Bangladesh's first and only LGBT magazine Xulhaz Mannan ( ; 12 October 1976 – 25 April 2016) was an employee of the United States embassy in Dhaka and the founder of Bangladesh 's first and only LGBT -themed magazine, Roopbaan . He was killed in his apartment along with another LGBT activist Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in a machete attack by Islamist extremists.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1171273120.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “employee of the united states embassy in dhaka and the founder of bangladesh 's first and only lgbt -themed mag”. Today it says “lgbtq+ rights activist”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Employee of the United States embassy in Dhaka and the editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBT magazine”. It now reads “LGBTQ-rights activist from Bangladesh”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
employee of the united states embassy in dhaka and the founder of bangladesh 's first and only lgbt -themed mag
Now
lgbtq+ rights activist
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“islamist” was in the opening on October 6, 2023. Today 2 remain, 41% of the way down the article.
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