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When the British royal family announced that .css-1h1us5y-StyledLink{color:var(–interactive-text-color);-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}.css-1h1us5y-StyledLink:hover{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}Queen Elizabeth II died, a global band of editors raced to update her Wikipedia page. Within two minutes, someone had already written that she was dead.
A week later, these editors are still moving fast. And while their speed isn’t unprecedented, the breadth of the work is. The queen had a sprawling realm, leaving Wikipedia editors with reams of digital pages to manage.
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