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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ :progress_flag: ...

2026-03-31T14:23:58Z

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ :progress_flag:

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

#DidYouKnow The blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of ...

2026-01-10T10:41:28Z

#DidYouKnow The blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of Old World #monkey native to Central and East #Africa, ranging from the upper #Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern #Angola and# Zambia and populations further south down to South Africa.

:wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_monkey
:wikispecies: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cercopithecus_mitis
:commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cercopithecus_mitis

#OnThisDay in #1612 #Galileo Galilei became the first person to ...

2025-12-28T00:30:16Z

#OnThisDay in #1612 #Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the #planet #Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.

🪐 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

#DidYouKnow that the #Anoplognathus pallidicollis beetle genus ...

2025-12-09T10:43:28Z

#DidYouKnow that the #Anoplognathus pallidicollis beetle genus from #Australia, is more commonly known as the Christmas #Beetle? This is because because they are abundant in both urban and rural areas close to #Christmas.

:wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_beetle
:commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anoplognathus_pallidicollis
:wikispecies: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anoplognathus_pallidicollis

Help choose the best image of the year, Vote for your favourites ...

2025-09-22T10:38:16Z

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

👀📱 Work is progressing for the mobile interface routing so ...

2025-09-09T09:44:02Z

👀📱 Work is progressing for the mobile interface routing so you no longer need to see the m. subdomain when visiting #wikimedia projects…

For more information and timelines checkout: https://w.wiki/FHTE

:commons: #DidYouKnow that #WikimediaCommons turned 21 yesterday? ...

2025-09-08T10:22:11Z

:commons: #DidYouKnow that #WikimediaCommons turned 21 yesterday? oh, how the time flies!

Commons originally went live on 2004-09-07.

🎂🥳 https://w.wiki/FGxp

The 2025 #SheSaid campaign is now live and runs until ...

2025-09-07T03:50:04Z

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

Did you know that the current species of the month on ...

2025-07-01T12:11:22Z

Did you know that the current species of the month on #Wikispecies is the Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis)?

Some quick facts:
➡️ The Island Fox is the smallest fox in #NorthAmerica, significantly smaller than the Gray Fox.
➡️ This species is endemic to six of the eight Channel Islands of #California, #UnitedStates.
➡️ The current protection status is rated at: Near Threatened

More information?
ℹ️ https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
ℹ️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_fox

🌈 #WikiLovesPride 2025 is live! 🏳️‍🌈 ...

2025-06-04T10:27:14Z

🌈 #WikiLovesPride 2025 is live! 🏳️‍🌈

:blobhaj_heart_trans: Wiki Loves Pride 2025 is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBTQ-related content across all #Wikimedia projects, organized by Wikimedia LGBTQ+.

:blobhaj_heart_rainbow: It takes place throughout the entire month of #June in celebration of the International #LGBTQ #Pride Day.

:blobhaj_love: More Information?
ℹ️ On English #Wikipedia: https://w.wiki/EMF3
ℹ️ On Meta-Wiki: https://w.wiki/ENfB

#PrideMonth #PrideDay

Happy pride month! :blobhaj_heart_rainbow: :blobhaj_heart_trans: ...

2025-06-01T20:13:32Z

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

While we wait, here's a quick look at the web traffic ...

2025-05-08T16:39:20Z

While we wait, here's a quick look at the web traffic currently hitting Wikimedia projects — can you perhaps guess when the reports of white smoke from the Vatican first started?

That was quick! ...

2025-04-28T12:36:34Z

That was quick!

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

Have you ever, ever felt like this? #OnThisDay (1990-04-06) the ...

2025-04-06T13:54:48Z

Have you ever, ever felt like this? #OnThisDay (1990-04-06) the #Australian #televsion series Round the Twist premiered.

The first series was loosely based on the books of Paul Jennings telling the story of a widowed sculptor and his three children, with the first episode being Skeleton on the Dunny.

The really nerdy and cool information (which I'm sure some of ...

2025-03-19T10:16:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…kn90
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The really nerdy and cool information (which I'm sure some of you are here for!) about how the switch takes place is at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter

--sf

The @npub1hdk…eh5e will switch traffic between its data centers ...

2025-03-19T09:51:06Z

The Wikimedia Foundation (npub1hdk…eh5e) 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 ?

2025-02-18T17:12:18Z

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

⚽ #DidYouKnow that #soccer in #Australia is at least 150 years ...

2025-02-05T01:32:52Z

⚽ #DidYouKnow that #soccer in #Australia is at least 150 years old this year!

An early match took place at the #Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum in suburban #Brisbane, on 7 August #1875, when a team of inmates and wards men from the asylum played against the visiting Brisbane Australian rules football club.

📜ℹ️ For More History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_in_Australia

#AustralianHistory #AusHistory #SportsHistory

🥳 Ukrainian Wikipedia turns 21. 21 years ago a Ukrainian ...

2025-01-30T22:28:55Z

🥳 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/

After seeing a post about someone who is running a fediverse ...

2025-01-29T18:24:20Z

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 ...

2025-01-26T00:53:35Z

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).

Some users also created ...

2025-01-23T11:28:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…ecqn
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Some users also created https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents (seeding of which is definitely appreciated!)

--sf

Did you know we make XML dumps of all our wikis' data ...

2025-01-23T11:23:02Z

Did you know we make XML dumps of all our wikis' data publicly available[0], including some which go back to 2001 (the UseModWiki era!)[1]

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[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps

[1] - https://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/

🎉 Wikipedia is 24 years old today! ...

2025-01-15T09:36:42Z

🎉 Wikipedia is 24 years old today!

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

#Wikipedia

woah :blobhaj: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blåhaj

2025-01-02T03:51:08Z

woah :blobhaj:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blåhaj

Lots of talk about donating money, which is great, but donating ...

2024-12-26T16:39:49Z

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: ...

2024-12-25T12:08:32Z

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 ...

2024-12-21T01:54:37Z

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

🦘🐨 #OnThisDay in #AustralianHistory #Queensland officially ...

2024-12-09T21:21:38Z

🦘🐨 #OnThisDay in #AustralianHistory #Queensland officially became a separate colony from #NewSouthWales.

📜 The letters patent was signed on 6 June 1859 by Queen Victoria and came into effect on 10 December 1859 (Proclamation Day).

ℹ️ Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_Queensland

Do you use #Wikipedia (or any other #Wikimedia project) with ...

2024-11-18T11:29:08Z

Do you use #Wikipedia (or any other #Wikimedia project) with JavaScript turned off?

Voting in the #WikimediaCommons Picture of the Year 2023 image ...

2024-11-04T20:19:09Z

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 ...

2024-11-01T22:13:58Z

🌈 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

Help choose the best image of the year. View the finalists and ...

2024-10-21T09:05:38Z

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

Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July ...

2023-12-15T23:27:50Z

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. 0% of its original phrases remain.