🥳 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. ✉️
[Wikimedia-l] Ukrainian Wikipedia turns 21 - Wikimedia-l - lists.wikimedia.org
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!
.arpa - Wikipedia
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). image
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] --- [0] -
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🎉 Wikipedia is 24 years old today!
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day - Wikipedia
 #Wikipedia
woah :blobhaj:
Blåhaj - Wikipedia
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:
Streisand effect - Wikipedia
 have a lovely day y'all --sf
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:
Torn (Ednaswap song) - Wikipedia
 #MusicFact #MusicHistory #HistoryOfMusic #FactOfTheDay
🦘🐨 #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:
Separation of Queensland - Wikipedia
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