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wikipedia, 7 months ago to random

#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

wikipedia, 7 months ago to Japan

The #Wikimedia 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 #Wikimedians in #Japan.

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

wikipedia, 8 months ago to random

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

wikipedia, 8 months ago to brisbane

@wm_au has announced that WikiCon 2023 will be held in #Brisbane on 18 November 2023.

📅: Saturday 18 November 2023
⏰: 9:00am - 5:00pm
🏢: The Conference Room at Punthill Apartment Hotel Spring Hill (40 Astor Terrace, Brisbane, 4000)
💵: Free (light refreshments and lunch included)
🎫: https://events.humanitix.com/wikicon-2023-brisbane

ℹ️: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WikiCon_Brisbane_2023

wikipedia, 10 months ago to Wikipedia

Congratulations to the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners!! 🎉

User:Tofeiku, @siobhan_leachman, User:Eugene_Ormandy, @funcrunch and @zabe, plus an honorable mention for Anton Protsiuk of Wikimedia Ukraine.

Thank you all for your contributions to #Wikipedia and other #Wikimedia projects to further spread #FreeKnowledge

Read more about each of the winners: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/16/celebrating-the-2023-wikimedian-of-the-year-winners/

gutenberg_org, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to science

Amedeo Avogadro was born #OTD in 1776.

He is most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the ratio of the number of elementary entities in a substance to its amount of substance, 6.02214076×10^23 mol−1, is known as the Avogadro constant. via @wikipedia

#science #chemistry

wikipedia, 10 months ago to random

There are many tools developed by end users from Wikimedia communities, One example is Pageviews Analysis by MusikAnimal, Kaldari, and Marcel Ruiz Forns.

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/

You can use it to see spikes in page views, for example yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the TV show The OC! You can see it spike on the graph compared to the rest of the year.

wikipedia, 10 months ago to australia

Happy 15th anniversary to @wm_au! #Wikimedia #Australia was officially incorporated on the afternoon of 6 August #2008.

gmate8, 10 months ago to random

@wikipedia, please could you help assist on this Organic Maps feature? https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/3478

nev, 10 months ago to Wikipedia

Absolutely the funniest shit is the #wikipedia article 'List of cetaceans' putting [cetacean needed] for the ones they don't have a picture of.

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

🏴‍☠️ stolen from someone who didn't add alt text

wikipedia, 10 months ago to Wikipedia

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

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)

ikesau, 10 months ago to Wikipedia

Anyway this seems kind of sinister? A bot editing articles with "minor incorrections?"

@wikimediafoundation - is this a common thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bratz&diff=prev&oldid=1166604853

#wikipedia

antiarchit, 10 months ago to random

Of course #Barbenheimer has a @wikipedia entry.

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

wikipedia, 10 months ago to Wikipedia

The New York Times interviewed a number of Wikipedians and WMF staff for a in-depth piece on #Wikipedia and #AI that's worth your time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html

"Recently, when I asked this editor if he still worried about his encyclopedia’s fate, he told me that the newer versions made him more convinced that ChatGPT was a threat. 'It wouldn’t surprise me if things are fine for the next three years,' he said of Wikipedia, 'and then, all of a sudden, in Year 4 or 5, things drop off a cliff.'"

wikipedia, 10 months ago to random

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

wikipedia, 10 months ago to Wikipedia

Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia 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 #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

wikipedia, 11 months ago to Wikipedia

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!!

wikipedia, 11 months ago to singapore

Don't forget that registrations for the 2023 #Wikimania conference being held in #Singapore between 16-19 August 2023 are now open, and close 16 July for those wanting to attend in person.

For registration info visit https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2023:Registration

wikipedia, 11 months ago to random

Episode 28 (The state of diversity, equity & inclusion) of the monthly #WikiAfrica Hour #vodcast will be occurring on 14/07/2023 at 4pm (UTC), This episode features a panel discussion featuring some amazing #wikimedians working in the #diversity, #equity & #inclusion space one way or another. For more info https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour/Episodes#Upcoming_episode

Special Guests include Camelia Boban, Željko Blaće (@zBlace), Ciell, Manavpreet Kaur

🖼️ Ceslause, CC-BY-SA-4.0

wikipedia, 11 months ago to festivals

Results from the #WikiMixtura photo contest, focusing on #Bolivian #festivals, have been announced!

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/07/wikimixtura-a-photo-contest-to-diversify-our-outlook/

Check out the winning photo from the "dancers" category by Saidalefotografia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

reckoneer, 11 months ago to random

Today my Wikipedia account was granted extended confirmed rights and I'm sooooo proud of all the work I've done as an editor.

Thanks, @wikipedia

wikipedia, 11 months ago to Wikipedia

#Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023 (#WPWP) is an annual campaign where editors across the world add photos to Wikipedia articles (in all languages!) lacking them.

👀 More Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2023
📷: Godstime Elijah, CC BY-SA 4.0

bkeegan, 11 months ago to random

@wikipedia doesn't miss either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention