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@dee this poll was curiosity more than anything — I'm not personally aware of any considerations like that :3

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Voting in the #WikimediaCommons Picture of the Year 2023 image competition has ended, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on #Wikimedia Commons.

This years winning photo was taken by user Trantuanviet, Which depicts #incense sticks being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution, and was taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of #Hanoi, #Vietnam.

🖼️ For all the results https://w.wiki/Bn$r

🌈 Are you passionate about the history and representation of the #LGBTQ+ community?

Join us in enriching LGBTQ+ documentation across #Wikimedia projects such as #Wikipedia, #Wikidata, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikisource during the third edition of LGBTQ+ History Month during November!

🏳️🌈 Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Pride/History_month/2024

Celebrate Women's Voices: Join the #SheSaid Campaign!

The SheSaid is a drive run by #WikiInAfrica as part of the #WikiLovesWomen initiative. The campaign aims to celebrate and recognize women by focusing on enhancing their representation and visibility on #Wikiquote by encouraging the creation and improvement of entries.

Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid

Help choose the best image of the year. View the finalists and vote for your favourite in the #WikimediaCommons Picture of the Year 2023 image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on #Wikimedia Commons. (Voting closes 28 October 2024)

ℹ️🖼️https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2023

A massive congratulations to all the 2024 Wikimedians of the Year, and a special shout-out to User:Clovermoss ( that's the incredible @HannahClover btw ) :wikilove:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/07/meet-the-wikimedians-of-the-year-2024/

Of course the current global cyber outage has a #Wikipedia article already!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2024_global_cyber_outages

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Persian Wikipedia (fa.wikipedia.org) just passed its one MILLION article milestone.

Volunteers have built, contributed, protected and loved this wiki for the past two decades, providing free knowledge to more than 130M Persian language speakers.

Persian Wikipedia is being viewed by around 30M people monthly and has had 350M page views every month while only ~1,500 active editors and ~35 admins have been keeping it alive and protecting it from all types of harm.

Here's how the Earth article looked in 2001 when Wikipedia was a month old, long before Wikipedians realized their fledgling online encyclopedia would be read (and edited!) by astronauts in space. Since then, the Earth article has been edited more than 14,000 times. It's a good day to read it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

Wiki old-timers might remember that for the first month of Wikipedia, CamelCase was the only way to make hyperlinks. Back then, article titles had bizarre capitalization like "EartH" and "JapaN" and "ReLigion"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CamelCase_and_Wikipedia

Today is the 45th anniversary of the time Jimmy Carter got attacked by a rabbit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident

The article "Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024" was first created sixteen years ago on February 8, 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024

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User:Clovermoss' "Editor Reflections" essay is a collection of over 100 Wikipedians' experiences of editing the project, from the reason they started contributing, to looking to the future of their edits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss/Editor_reflections

#Wikipedia

20 years ago today, The "Did you know" section appeared on English Wikipedia for the very first time! Here's how it looked.

Since then, we've featured more than 100,000 facts on the main page. We like to think that we've gotten a little better at choosing surprising hooks.

In case you were wondering, the most-clicked "Did you know" entry was the article "Infant swimming" in 2014. More stats here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics/All-time_DYK_pageview_leaders

We are obsessed with "Wikiflix," a streaming site full of freely-licensed films from Wikimedia Commons! It was created by legendary Wikimedian @magnusmanske

https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/wikiflix/#/

It's Wikipedia's birthday! Here's our baby picture from January 15, 2001

Longtime Wikipedia editor @molly0xfff has put together a nice response to some questions about #Wikipedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jM6aoTDK0

Ultimately, we *want* people to reuse content from Wikipedia, we even have a guide on how to do so correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content

Some people start the new year with a kiss. Others refresh English Wikipedia at midnight ET to see Mickey. Happy Public Domain Day!