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Help choose the best image of the year, Vote for your favourites in the #WikimediaCommons Picture of the Year 2024 image competition which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on #Wikimedia Commons.

📸 Pictured is the 2023 Winner, Showing 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.

🔗 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024

The 2025 #SheSaid campaign is now live and runs until 2025-12-31!, She Said is a #WikiLovesWomen initiative to celebrate the world's leading women.

Started in October 2020 the project aims to increase women's voices by creating new entries in #WikiQuote or by improving existing ones.

ℹ️🔗 :community_logo: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid and :wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:SheSaid

:wikimania: Registration for #Wikimania 2025 is now open!

📅 Wikimania #Nairobi will happen from 6th through 9th August with pre-conference activities on the 5th August.

🎉 This year Wikimania turns 20! Join us in celebrating two decades of collaboration, knowledge, and community! Whether you're a longtime #Wikimedian or just getting started, this is the moment to connect, learn, and be part of something bigger.

ℹ️ For information on registering, check out https://w.wiki/EUJp

@awoo :blobfoxaww:

Looks like there's a global cloud provider outage going on at the moment - https://wikipedia.org is still up though :wikilove:

Happy pride month! :blobhaj_heart_rainbow: :blobhaj_heart_trans:

We've just been looking at all the cool pride flags on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_pride_flags

@soop @lambdacalculus the use of LLMs in generating article content has been opposed on many projects (notably the English Wikipedia) for quite some time, and I* don't foresee that changing any time soon.

This blog post is pretty vague, and I* wish there was more clarity on the plans. People are already pushing back for clarity within the community.

[*Sammy, one of the volunteers who runs this account]

That was quick!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_European_power_outage

Wake up babe there's a disembodied finger on the main page of Wikipedia

The @wikimediafoundation will switch traffic between its data centers today (19 March) at around 14:00 UTC.
This is done twice a year to make sure that #Wikipedia and the other #Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

More info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch

Have you heard about https://citationhunt.toolforge.org ?

🥳 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:

--sf

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

have a lovely day y'all
--sf

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