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Online Tower of Babel gets a new brick for every Wikipedia edit

Rob Beschizza
Jul 28, 2026
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According to the book of Genesis, the legendary Tower of Babel was built by mankind and destroyed by God. On the internet, though, it’s being rebuilt to celebrate Wikipedia: every time someone edits a page, a new brick is added. A new tower goes up every day; at midnight UTC, the current tower is topped with a crown.

Todays tower is nearly 300m tall (the…

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