Notices by Wikipedia (wikipedia@wikis.world)

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🥳 Ukrainian Wikipedia turns 21.

21 years ago a Ukrainian teenager who lived in Japan created [[uk:Атом]],
#Ukrainian #Wikipedia’s first article. Today we have 1,36 million articles –
and counting.

✉️ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/X4NGRQYESZACD7TZ66ITHYGZBLVMC5T5/

For example, did you know:

- ARPA here is a backronym for "Address and Routing Parameter Area"?

- e164.arpa allows you to "retrieve information associated with telephone numbers through the ENUM[0] service"

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENUM

After seeing a post about someone who is running a fediverse instance on an ip6.arpa domain, we've gone down the .arpa top-level domain rabbit hole this evening!

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

The featured picture that appeared the English #Wikipedia front page on the 2025-01-22 from #WikimediaCommons is a Cattle tyrant (Machetornis rixosa rixosa) riding on the head of a male #capybara (Hydrochoeris hydrochaeris).

🎉 Wikipedia is 24 years old today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day

#Wikipedia

woah :blobhaj:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blåhaj

Lots of talk about donating money, which is great, but donating time is equally as impactful — we always need more editors, and it's these volunteers who create and curate our content! :wikilove:

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apropos of nothing, here's an interesting article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

have a lovely day y'all
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Whilst most people associate the song Torn with Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia who released her cover in 1997, it was originally written in 1991 by Scott Cutler & Anne Preven, whose band Ednaswap performed it live, but did not initially release a recording.

The first recording of the song was by Danish singer Lis Sørensen in 1993, then Ednaswap released their recording in 1995.

ℹ️🎼 More Information: https://w.wiki/CUd$

#MusicFact #MusicHistory #HistoryOfMusic #FactOfTheDay

@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