Notices by Wikipedia (wikipedia@wikis.world), page 2

Happy new year, in UTC! 🎉🎆✨

Time to start documenting everything that happens in 2024!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024

The #Arabic-language #Wikipedia has gone "dark" in solidarity with Palestinians, calling for peace and an end to the war. Articles can be read but not edited for the next 24 hours.

https://ar.wikipedia.org

"This action stems from the community's sense of moral duty to combat injustice. Wikipedia communities have previously stood up for human rights such as by protesting legal travesties like SOPA and PIPA or by showing solidarity with Ukrainians following Russia's invasion of their country."

Are you an editor? Show us your Wikipedia Wrapped!

https://wikipediayir.netlify.app/

Tool was created by the great Jon Robson! Note that it doesn't include viewing habits — we make a point not to track that.

Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times and 0% of its original phrases remain.

The "stuffing" article is approaching its annual traffic spike. Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating!

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2015-11-01&end=2023-11-21&pages=Stuffing

The toast sandwich article was created on English Wikipedia twelve years ago today!

(photo: Qwantz, CC BY-SA 3.0)

It's official! As of today, Wikipedian Johnny Au has edited Wikipedia every single day for sixteen years. We get to celebrate with him at WikiConference North America today!

Longest disambiguation page is St. Mary's Church! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_records#Disambiguation_pages

Please enjoy this 1940s public domain photo used in the article "photokeratitis"

On this day in 1910, a cow named Pauline arrived at the White House.

Photo via Library of Congress, text via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Wayne

Wikipedia, the free online e̶n̶c̶y̶c̶l̶o̶p̶e̶d̶i̶a̶ streaming platform

No Halloween plans? Watch the 1968 indie horror film Night of the Living Dead, conveniently available on the main page of English Wikipedia today!

#WikiDataCon2023 is live now

You can view the livestream on the #WikiProject Taiwan YouTube channel @
https://youtube.com/@wikidatataiwan9726

For more information, and the program schedule visit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023

Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia and its sister projects! 🇨🇨 :ccby: :ccsa:

Learn how this will enable the reuse of more free content in Wikipedia, simplify attribution requirements and more in a post by the #Wikimedia Foundation legal team:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/29/stepping-into-the-future-wikimedia-projects-transition-to-creative-commons-4-0-license/

#FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

The Wikimedia Foundation, which serves as the non-profit host for #Wikipedia, @wikidata, @mediawiki, and other free knowledge projects, has joined the Fediverse as @wikimediafoundation - welcome!!

Not that anyone noticed, but the English #Wikipedia recently crossed the 6,666,666 article mark.

Unofficially, the milestone article was... SatanCon! It's the annual convention of the Satanic Temple.

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

In case you needed a rabbit hole today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mail#Mailing_children

Happy Towel Day! Today we're celebrating the life and works of Douglas Adams, inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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

Wikipedia has an article on Adams in 86 different languages: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42#sitelinks-wikipedia (yes, he is Q42 on Wikidata ;))

📷: Barbara Abate (CC BY-SA 2.0, https://w.wiki/6kko)

It's now possible to mark links to your #Wikipedia user page as verified on Mastodon!

Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:RealMe

This was developed and implemented by @taavi who wrote it as a #MediaWiki extension, named "RealMe". It's open source (like all of the Wikipedia software) and can be used on any MediaWiki wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RealMe

Please enjoy the surprisingly wholesome "security and defense" section of Liechtenstein's English Wikipedia article
-Annie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein#Security_and_defence