While we wait, here's a quick look at the web traffic currently hitting Wikimedia projects β can you perhaps guess when the reports of white smoke from the Vatican first started?
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 @Wikimedia Foundation 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:
β½ #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.
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π₯³ Ukrainian Wikipedia turns 21.
21 years ago a Ukrainian teenager who lived in Japan created [[uk:ΠΡΠΎΠΌ]],
#Ukrainian #Wikipediaβs first article. Today we have 1,36 million articles β
and counting.
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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!
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).
