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Wigger
Wigger is a pejorative American slang term, a contraction of "white nigger," for a white person, usually a young middle-class male, who adopts hip-hop speech, dress, and mannerisms; also spelled wigga, it peaked in the 1990s and 2000s.
Wikipedia community
Wikipedia community: the global body of volunteer editors (Wikipedians) who write and enforce policies on Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation has no editorial role; governance is consensus-based peer governance under a Universal Code of Conduct.
William Joseph Simmons
William Joseph Simmons was an American minister who founded the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915. He led the organization as its Imperial Wizard until 1922.
William White Williams
William White Williams, known in the white nationalist movement as Will Williams, is an American Vietnam veteran and former Special Forces captain who has chaired the National Alliance since 2014.
Windrush generation
The Windrush generation is the group of people who migrated from Caribbean Commonwealth countries to the UK between 1948 and 1973, named after the Empire Windrush ship.
Windrush scandal
Windrush scandal: 2018 UK scandal in which Windrush generation migrants (1948-1973 Caribbean arrivals) were wrongly classed as illegal immigrants under hostile environment policy; Wendy Williams review, £127m Windrush Compensation Scheme.
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke, born 1959, is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) activist, economist, and author on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, known for tribal land recovery and pipeline opposition.
Wiradjuri
Wiradjuri (Wiradyuri) are Aboriginal people of the three rivers (Macquarie, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee) in central NSW, Australia, the largest nation in the state, known for the Bathurst War resistance under Windradyne and for language revival.
Woah Vicky
Woah Vicky, real name Victoria Rose Waldrip (born 2000), is an American influencer and rapper who went viral in 2017 for falsely claiming to be Black, feuded with Bhad Bhabie, and later rebranded as a Christian poet.
Wog
Wog is a racial slur clipped from golliwog; in Britain an extremely offensive term for non-white people, in Australia for Southern European and Middle Eastern migrants, partly reclaimed by 1980s wog humour such as Wogs Out of Work.
Wolof people
Wolof people: largest ethnic group of Senegal (about 39-44% of the population), also in Gambia and Mauritania; heirs of the 14th-century Djolof empire; Wolof language is Senegal's lingua franca, spoken by over 80% as first or second language.
Wonhwa
Wonhwa (원화) was a mid-6th-century Silla youth-training institution, created in 576, in which selected young women led bands of youths and preceded the male Hwarang.
Wop
Wop is an offensive English ethnic slur for Italians or people of Italian descent, first recorded in American slang around 1910–15, derived from Neapolitan guappo, not the folk acronym "without papers."
Workforce Diversity
Workforce diversity, also called workplace or diverse workforce diversity, is the range of human differences employees bring to work, including race, gender, age, disability, and religion; studied through inclusion measures, DEI interventions, and EEO-1 demographic reporting.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations' food-assistance organization, established in 1961, working in over 120 countries and awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
World population
World population: total number of living humans, 8.2 billion in 2024 (UN WPP 2024; Census Bureau 8.09 billion in 2025). Growth peaked at 2.3% in 1963; UN projects a mid-2080s peak near 10.3 billion, Census Bureau 10.6 billion in 2093.
World Population Prospects
World Population Prospects (WPP) is the UN Population Division's official population estimates and projections series, 28 editions since 1951, covering 237 countries, 1950-2100; the 2024 revision projects a mid-2080s peak at 10.3 billion.
World Youth Day 2027
World Youth Day 2027 (WYD Seoul 2027), the 41st World Youth Day, is a Catholic youth gathering in Seoul, South Korea, August 3–8, 2027, themed on John 16:33, preceded by Days in the Dioceses and the second WYD in Asia after Manila 1995.
Wounded Knee Occupation
Wounded Knee Occupation: 71-day armed takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, by ~200 American Indian Movement activists and Oglala Lakota residents, Feb 27–May 8, 1973; declared the Independent Oglala Nation, demanded treaty enforcement and removal of tribal chairman Richard Wilson.
Wrecking (shipwreck)
Wrecking (shipwreck) is the coastal salvage of cargo and goods from wrecked ships, historically a customary right in Cornwall and elsewhere; historians show the murderous wrecker-with-false-lights myth, fixed by du Maurier's Jamaica Inn, lacks documentary support.
Writers' Union of Kazakhstan
The Writers' Union of Kazakhstan (Қазақстан Жазушылар одағы) is the only national professional association for poets and authors in Kazakhstan, dating its founding to a 1934 writers' congress.
Wurundjeri
Wurundjeri (Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung), Aboriginal people of Naarm/Melbourne, one of five Kulin Nation clans, Woi wurrung language; represented by the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, which lodged a 2025 native title claim over greater Melbourne and entered Victoria's treaty negotiations in 2026.
Wyandot people
Wyandot (Wendat, Huron) Iroquoian-speaking people of southern Ontario; dispersed after 1649-50 defeat by the Iroquois, with descendants today at Wendake, Quebec, and Wyandot nations in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Michigan.
Xavante
The Xavante, who call themselves A'uwe, are an Indigenous people of eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil, who separated from the related Xerente around 1820 and made permanent contact with the Brazilian state in 1946.
Xennials
Xennials are an informal microgeneration born in the late 1970s to early 1980s, between Generation X and Millennials, also called the Oregon Trail Generation or Generation Catalano; the term was coined by Sarah Stankorb in 2014.
Xhosa people
The Xhosa (amaXhosa) are a Southern Nguni people of South Africa's Eastern Cape, the second largest cultural group after the Zulu, speaking isiXhosa, a click-containing official language, with subgroups such as the Thembu and Mpondo.
Y Wladfa
Y Wladfa ("The Colony") is the Welsh settlement founded in 1865 in Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina, by Mimosa settlers seeking a Welsh-speaking community free of English influence; it survives through chapels, Eisteddfodau, and the Welsh Language Project.
Yadav
Yadav: umbrella caste identity for Ahir, Golla, Idaiyar, Kunbi and related pastoral-farming communities of India and Nepal's Terai, consolidated via the All India Yadav Mahasabha and the 1931 census; OBC-listed, 14.26% of Bihar, 4.21% of Nepal.
Yakama Nation
The Yakama Nation is a federally recognized sovereign tribe in Washington, formed in 1855 when fourteen tribes and bands confederated under the Treaty of 1855.
Yamasee
The Yamasee were an Indigenous people of the southeastern United States who emerged between Spanish Florida and Carolina, and led the 1715 Yamasee War that nearly destroyed South Carolina.