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Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. (from https://w.wiki/W)

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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

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

We've featured more than 100,000 facts on the main page, some more surprising than others!

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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

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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/#/

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

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Longtime Wikipedia editor @molly0xfff has put together a nice response to some questions about : 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

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

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Happy new year, in UTC! 🎉🎆✨

Time to start documenting everything that happens in 2024!

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

2024 Wikipedia article This article is about the year 2024. For the song, see 2024 (song). For the number, see 2024 (number). 2024 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2024 is the current year in parts of the world where the time zone is UTC±00:00 or earlier. It is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
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    The -language 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."

    تضامنًا مع حق الشعب الفلسطيني لا للإبادة الجماعية في غزة .... لا لقتل المدنيين لا لاستهداف المستشفيات والمدارس .... لا للتضليل والكيل بمكيالين أوقفوا الحرب .... وانشروا السلام العادل والشامل In solidarity with Palestinian rights Stop genocide in Gaza. Stop killing civilians. Stop targeting hospitals and schools. Stop misinformation and disinformation. Stop double standards. Stop the war.. Spread the just and comprehensive peace. (بداية «إغلاق ويكيبيديا العربية تضامنًا مع الشعب الفلسطيني» وستكون النهاية بعد 19 ساعةً و6 دقائق)
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    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.

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    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.

    A Wikipedia page for Ship of Theseus is shown. The article reads "According to an ancient Greek legend, Theseus had a warship that was preserved as a historical relic by the Athenians. Some of its boards rotted and had to be replaced. After many, many years, many such replacements occurred. Eventually, none of the original boards were present. Philosophers could then debate whether it was the same ship that Theseus had used, and if not, when it had ceased to be so. A modern embellishment If Theseus paid a nontransferable fee, allowed to be used for only one ship, for the privilege of docking in a particular harbor, would he violate the non-transferability of his license if repeated replacement of boards eventually had the result described above?"
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    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

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    Australia's first public station, 2SB, later renamed to 2BL and now called Radio Sydney, first began to broadcast at 8pm on the 23 November 1923 and is turning 100 this year!

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

    (photo: Qwantz, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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    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!

    Kunal, Johnny, and Annie smiling

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    🎉 The Affiliations Committee has recognized the Wikimédiens du Burkina Faso User Group ( of User Group) as a Wikimedia User Group.

    The group aims to to promote the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia projects in Burkina Faso, and it aims to encourage people to gather, organise, and share knowledge about Burkina Faso’s culture and history, in a way that informs and educates and that keeps the knowledge free

    🏡 More Information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikim%C3%A9diens_du_Burkina_Faso

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    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

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

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    Wikipedia, the free online e̶n̶c̶y̶c̶l̶o̶p̶e̶d̶i̶a̶ streaming platform

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    Please join us in welcoming @wikimediauk to the fediverse! Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global movement.

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    in 1983 (85 years ago!) "The War of the Worlds" which was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air which was directed and narrated by Orson Welles was performed and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network.

    The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place.

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    The Affiliations Committee has recognized Wikimedians of Japan User Group as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to establish a national organization to promote Wikimedia projects and support in .

    ℹ️ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Japan_User_Group
    ℹ️ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_of_Japan_User_Group

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    On this day in 1814, a 15-foot wave of beer crashed through the streets of London causing property damage, several deaths, and mass drunkenness.

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

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    Unfortunately we had a small outage this weekend, but this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that you can download entire copies of and other freely licensed projects for use via !

    Check out @kiwix - https://www.kiwix.org and set it up on your smartphone or laptop or boat so you can access free knowledge wherever you go.

    📷: The Goodall Family uses Kiwix on their boat while sailing the Pacific (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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    Did you know that on the 19th of July, WikiProject Women in Red celebrates it's 8th anniversary?

    WP WiR focuses on creating content regarding women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues to close the content gender gap on wikipedia.

    The WikiProject name relates to the goal of turning red links (missing pages) into blue links.

    More information on the project can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red

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    Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for and its sister projects! :cc: :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 Foundation legal team:

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

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

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    @tinker
    I am curious about this too.
    @wikipedia
    Could you please share how you run your community/multi-user account?

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    @mediopocillo @tinker password sharing :(

    @legoktm (me, hi!) is working on setting up a tool to allow us to give more people (authenticated by wiki account) posting access without knowing the password directly

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