Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian town located in the salfit governorate in the northern west bank”. Today it says “palestinian village in the salfit governorate of the state of 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 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
Yasuf ( Arabic : ياسوف ) is a Palestinian village in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine , in the northern West Bank , northeast of Salfit , 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , it had a population of 2,093 in 2017. About 87% of the population relies on agriculture for income, while the remainder work in the public sector. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report).
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1273852848.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Palestinian Authority muni Yasuf ( ) is a Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank , to mi northeast of Salfit , to mi southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , it had a population of approximately 1,761 in mid-2006. About 87% of the population relies on agriculture for income, while the remainder work in the public sector.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 350022846.
The opening as it stood in 2015 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Palestinian Authority muni Yasuf ( ) is a Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank , 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northeast of Salfit , 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach .According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , it had a population of 1,621 in 2007.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 666519407.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Municipality type D in Salfit, State of Palestine Yasuf ( ) is a Palestinian village located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank , northeast of Salfit , 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , it had a population of 1,621 in 2007. About 87% of the population relies on agriculture for income, while the remainder work in the public sector.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 950605494.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Municipality type D in Salfit, State of Palestine Yasuf ( ) is a Palestinian village located in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine , in the northern West Bank , northeast of Salfit , 37 kilometres (23 mi) southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , it had a population of 1,621 in 2007. About 87% of the population relies on agriculture for income, while the remainder work in the public sector.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1178550520.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian town located in the salfit governorate in the northern west bank”. Today it says “palestinian village in the salfit governorate of the state of palestine”. 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 since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
palestinian town located in the salfit governorate in the northern west bank
Now
palestinian village in the salfit governorate of the state of 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.
