Gregory's ServerHere'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!
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Today is the 45th anniversary of the time Jimmy Carter got attacked by a rabbit!
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@wikipedia i don't want a bunny-wunny in my wittle row boat in my wittle row boat on the pond!  @wikipedia @mvexel Reminds me of how aformer Russian president fell off a bridge in 1989: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%95%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0 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 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.
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 @wikipedia Theseus grows old. Over the years he loses friends, and makes new ones. He learns about himself and the world he lives in. He has kids. He loses his wife, not terribly young but still much too soon. He takes up dancing. At the age of 64 he dies peacefully, surrounded by his children. Is Theseus still the same man who bought the boat, all those years ago?  The toast sandwich article was created on English Wikipedia twelve years ago today! (photo: Qwantz, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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@wikipedia The middle slice may be buttered or may be not. Isn't there enough uncertainty in modern world? I need a definitive recipe! @wikipedia @fakeplastictree @ottaross I recently did a cartoon about the origins of the sandwich, if anyone is interested: https://www.historyshapes.com/featured/toast-sandwich/ -mert.  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 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)
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@wikipedia @kiwix At the moment I cannot load the Kiwix website, but I'm on mobile, and unfortunately Firefox nigtlyhas some issues, I believe.  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!!  #MutualAid Sorry for the interruption, many of you scroll past my posts every day, but 98% of readers don't consider the time and effort it takes me to maintain my single user instance. If you could please donate at least $5 to me, or more, that would help me keep my server going. This is the first appeal I've shown you. Please don't scroll away.
 @wikipedia @wikidata @mediawiki @wikimediafoundation Hey, welcome aboard! Whatever else we may be, we are interesting! 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.
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@wikipedia @selea l absolutely love how the Satanic Temple does not actually worship Satan, but uses that theme to piss off (read: trigger) the Christians whom they are protesting. It's an amazing level of commitment to trolling and I love it. They do good work for women and LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of religion (and freedom to not have a religion).  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
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 @wikipedia @taavi this is cool and good work but it'd be really great if you could verify articles in the main namespace, so that @davew is verified as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer Hm. still trying to work this out... Linked en:w and my page here... It says link rel="me" "will be added, it doesn't say I should add it...where is the verification supposed to appear?  @wikipedia @taavi This could be a useful tool for exposing connections among editors who are members of groups that are organising to subvert Wikipedia e.g. the guerrilla skeptics. Of course once identified nothing will be done because Jimmy sympathizes with them... Annie here! My favorite site to show new Wikimedia contributors is wikishootme.toolforge.org which shows nearby landmarks that need photos. Gonna snap a pic of this park in Brooklyn next time I'm nearby! Created by the incredible @magnusmanske (whose many, many Wikimedia achievements include creating the first article on German Wikipedia)
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 @wikipedia @magnusmanske This is really interesting! Would you mind if I share this with the Link Of The Day bot? @wikipedia @magnusmanske Pretty brilliant. I've been looking for ideas of things to photograph lately.
 @wikipedia @magnusmanske @estheria Oh, that’s amazing! Lots of unshot stuff nearby; maybe we just got a new summer project. A different kind #WikiPoll this week: we've been on the Fediverse for just over a month now, what kind of posts do you enjoy seeing and want more of? Is there #Wikipedia-related content you want to see that we aren't posting? Anonymous poll
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Facts: Featured articles or random funny stuff
716
76.5%
Behind the scenes Wikipedia organizing/strategy
370
39.5%
Tips of things to edit, ways to get started
223
23.8%
Something else; leave a reply
936 people voted. 23
2.5%
Voting ended 17 May 2023 at 15:46.
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@wikipedia Posts like Depths of Wikipedia and behind-the-scenes of Wikipedia are looks good to me.  @wikipedia pages that serve as fact check of a trending topic. Truth-trolling, the way a dictionary site does on twitter ;-> What topic areas did you turn to #Wikipedia to learn about this week? What's the most interesting thing you learned? What's your favorite article out of what you read? Anonymous poll
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space: JUICE, Starship, solar eclipse
5
27.8%
Earth Day: environment, climate, energy
2
11.1%
Sports, pop culture: IPL, Beef, 420
1
5.6%
Something else; leave a reply
18 people voted. 10
55.6%
Voting ended 24 Apr 2023 at 17:01. @wikipedia  @wikipedia i just looked up the line of succession to the French throne. The Orleanist line which dates from 1830 has been united with the legalist line that dates back to before the Revolution! And the current pretender was born in 1965.
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Hello Fediverse! 👋 #Wikipedia :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. -- or so says our Wikipedia article (https://w.wiki/W). Follow for cool facts, behind-the-scenes details on editing processes and tips on getting started contributing! #Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons There are currently 332 language editions of #Wikipedia (again, per Wikipedia) - we'll do our best to bring multilingual content, but we would appreciate help from Wikipedians involved in non-English language editions with suggesting content to post or translating existing posts. This account is community-run by Wikipedians (like you!) - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia for details. Please help us in creating a Mastodon account that anyone can edit :-) |
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