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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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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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On this day in 1987, Rage first screened.

The first guest programmer on the couch was ABC presenter Andrew Denton. Who are your memorable guest programmers?

You can read more about rage's history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(TV_program) or scroll down memory lane with the list of guest programmers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rage_guest_programmers

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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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nyaa~

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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

#Wikipedia

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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.

Since then, we've featured more than 100,000 facts on the main page. We like to think that we've gotten a little better at choosing surprising hooks.

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Sometimes people forget that my logo has more angles than the one that sits at the top of your screen!

Image: Wikimedia Foundation, rendered by Slashme and Psiĥedelisto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_logo_puzzle_globe_spins_horizontally_and_vertically,_revealing_the_contents_of_all_of_its_puzzle_pieces_(4K_resolution)_(VP9).webm

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Yesterday, the Halberstadt Cathedral's continuous performance of "As Slow as Possible" played a new note for the first time in two years! The performance is scheduled to last 639 years.

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

mvexel, 4 months ago to random

I've been doing some contributing to https://wikitravel.org/en/Salt_Lake_City but just now I learned about https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage_and_Wikitravel and now I'm confused. "should" I contribute to voyage or travel?

wikipedia, 4 months ago to random

Happy belated birthday to Wikipedian Osama Khalid, who is currently in a Saudi jail for the crime of sharing free knowledge

https://dco-tn.org/f/birthday-in-jail-saudi-wikipedian-osama-khalid-remains-unjustly

Along with Ziyad Al-Sufyani, they were arbitrarily arrested in 2020 on charges that have never been fully made public.

"Osama was an asset to the Wikimedia community and he is dearly missed" -- https://w.wiki/8xj5

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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 #Wikipedia: 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

wikipedia, 4 months ago to random

Some people start the new year with a kiss. Others refresh English Wikipedia at midnight ET to see Mickey Mouse. 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

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Every year on January 1st, works from 95 years ago (term varies by country) enter the public domain, and can be freely shared and remixed by all, with absolutely no restrictions. This year is especially notable because Disney's "Steamboat Willie" will finally be copyright free.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

What are you most excited to see on #PublicDomainDay?

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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."

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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.