Wiki Page Backstory works by analyzing pages newly-added to a category and setting up time-bounded searches across Google Web, Google News, Reddit (via SocialGrep), and Twitter. These searches focus on a window of two days before and two days after the page’s appearance in the category.
While not all searches will provide results, you’ll often find intriguing social media discussions or news stories that explain the activity on a Wikipedia page. For example, you might come across a Reddit debate about beer can pyramids or gain insights into international political events by exploring the 2023 elections in Asia category.
With Wiki Page Backstory, you can also look back up to a year for recently-added pages. If you’re interested in exploring even earlier days of Wikipedia, a date-based search might be a possibility in the future.
Ready to dig deeper into the history and context of Wikipedia articles? Simply paste in the name of a Wikipedia category, choose how far back you want to go, hit the button, and start your journey!
It may take a moment for the results to load if there are a lot. If you get no results try again with a longer time span, like a year.
