We'll try to do regular reports on the status and metrics behind the Wikipedia Mastodon account, but don't expect them to go as in-depth as this first one.
The account was launched on April 13 to coincide with the six-month anniversary of Wikis World, but had been discussed for quite a while before, including on Phabricator and the Wikimedia-l mailing list. We set up this account as explicitly being community-run in a collaborative manner. People are encouraged to submit things to post or be boosted and we'd like to give more people posting access in the future. This vision has not been fully realized but we're slowly getting there.
The community-run aspect might initially seem odd compared to how the Wikipedia Twitter and Facebook accounts are managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, but there are and have been many other volunteer-run social media accounts for other projects.
The account has been incredibly well received in the Fediverse from the very beginning, with the Fediverse Report boosting the account and writing:
Wikipedia is now on Mastodon, at @wikipedia!
They've taken an interesting approach here, as it is an account run by the community, where everyone can contribute (explanation here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia). At the same time, it is verified on the official homepage of wikipedia.org, as you can see in the screenshot.
Personally, I think this suits the spirit of the fediverse that the Wikipedia account is not a PR department, but community members building something together!
The Mastodon project tweeted (yes, on Twitter) a welcome, and even used the account as an example on the verification documentation, next to Mozilla and the Auschwitz Memorial.
More recently the account was recognized and congratulated for "doing everything right" since joining, including using alt-text, boosting others, being part of the community, and more.
It's worth noting that one or two people have shown up in replies to criticize Wikipedia as censoring things and the "normal" concerns about WMF fundraising, but those are pretty rare and don't tend to get any uptake really.
Initially our plan was to post a mix of encyclopedic content (things in the news or featured or at DYK, etc.) and also behind-the-scenes details on how the content is being created. This hasn't been consistently applied; some weeks have been heavier on meta things, while others have been more content-focused. We also ran a poll asking followers what they wanted to see, reaching 986 respondents: 76% replied facts/encyclopedic content, 40% behind the scenes, 24% editing tips, 3% other.
The account has primarily posted in English, with the introduction post being translated on-wiki into a number of languages. Our post about the regional Indonesian conference was first posted in Indonesian and then English. We have been more liberal in boosting non-English content, reaching: German, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, and Spanish.
For the first few weeks we also ran polls asking people to share what they had read that week (example), boosting some of the interesting replies as a way to make it more participatory.
On purpose, Mastodon provides way less metrics than corporate social media. Plus we don't use any tracking links and referers will be very spread out since people are reading things on a bunch of different instances. So basically we can look at overall followers (12,067 as of writing) and boosts, favorites, and replies on individual posts. It should go without saying that our goal is not to maximize said metrics, nor should they be solely directing what we do.
Very broadly, posts about content do "better" than meta movement topics. This lines up with the poll results discussed earlier.
Some topics were also posted by other accounts, so we can do a rough comparison across platforms, with a big caveat that all the posts were far from identical, posted at different times, etc. Mastodon culture and lack of an algorithmic timeline leads to higher boosting than you'd likely see elsewhere.
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Mastodon (@Wikipedia)
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Twitter (@Wikimedia)
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Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter)
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| POTY 2022
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442 boosts, 628 favorites
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18 retweets, 50 likes
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302 retweets, 4,537 likes
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| #WikiCelebrate for Meenakshi Nandhini
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28 boosts, 58 favorites
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16 boosts, 58 likes
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| SCOTUS and tomatoes
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89 boosts, 156 favorites
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1,838 retweets, 27,400 likes
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| Posts made by @Wikipedia
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2023-04-13 01:59 UTC
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Hello Fediverse! 👋 #Wikipedia :wikipedia: is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wik… (English)
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2023-05-23 02:24 UTC
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The votes have been counted, announcing the 2022 #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little egret (Eg… (English)
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442
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628
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9
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2023-05-17 03:09 UTC
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Please enjoy the surprisingly wholesome "security and defense" section of Liechtenstein's English Wikipedia article -Anniehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik… (English)
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2023-05-19 18:54 UTC
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It's now possible to mark links to your #Wikipedia user page as verified on Mastodon! Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage… (English)
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10
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2023-05-29 16:37 UTC
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Today's #xkcd comic perfectly captures how we all read #Wikipediahttps://xkcd.com/2782/:cc: xkcd (CC BY-NC 2.5)… (English)
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2023-05-30 14:36 UTC
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In case you needed a rabbit hole today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mail#Mailing_children… (English)
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2023-05-25 18:58 UTC
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Happy Towel Day! Today we're celebrating the life and works of Douglas Adams, inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.https://en.wikipedia.or… (English)
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2023-05-17 03:28 UTC
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Annie here! My favorite site to show new Wikimedia contributors is https://wikishootme.toolforge.org which shows nearby landmarks that need photos. Go… (English)
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2023-04-14 19:57 UTC
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Since a few people have mentioned it, we're working on getting the official verified ✔️ .Wikipedia runs on all open source software, you can even see … (English)
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160
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8
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2023-05-14 15:45 UTC
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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?I… (English)
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34
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2023-04-18 04:29 UTC
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ah, there we go, got that ✔️ For those curious, the technical path it took was:1. Adding the link to the wikipedia.org template: https://gerrit.wikime… (English)
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7
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2023-05-11 19:11 UTC
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in honor of the 130 year anniversary of the US Supreme Court's decision to classify tomatoes as vegetables, here is my favorite tomato photo on Wikime… (English)
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89
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156
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4
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2023-04-19 01:59 UTC
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The winners of #WikiLovesMonuments 2022 have been announced!https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/2022_winners/Out of over 150,000 submitted entries from… (English)
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69
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108
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1
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2023-04-22 04:01 UTC
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Happy #EarthDay!Have you read today's featured article on the English #Wikipedia: Renewable energy in Scotland?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable… (English)
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60
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81
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0
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| 15
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2023-04-16 05:23 UTC
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OK, how many hours do you think you spent this week reading #Wikipedia?What's the most interesting thing you learned? What's your favorite article out… (English)
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55
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20
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10
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| 16
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2023-04-23 17:01 UTC
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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 o… (English)
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52
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48
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75
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2023-05-23 02:32 UTC
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Third place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty: (you've probably seen this one before)Young stars form in 'The Pillars of Creation' as s… (English)
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50
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119
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4
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2023-05-29 11:00 UTC
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If you don't want to watch all 10 hours and 7 minutes of the 2016 film "Paint Drying", #Wikipedia has you covered with a 3-sentence synopsis in today'… (English)
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49
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49
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1
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2023-05-04 06:00 UTC
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Meet Oleh Shostak, #Ukrainian #Wikipedia’s most prolific editorhttps://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/05/03/meet-oleh-shostak-ukrainian-wikipedias-most-proli… (English)
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72
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0
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2023-05-17 03:14 UTC
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Have you ever tried to guess the article from the table of contents? Here's one that's pretty easy!… (English)
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41
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70
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18
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2023-05-23 02:29 UTC
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Second place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:Banna children in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts.Attr… (English)
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40
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89
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2
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2023-04-18 06:00 UTC
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Sad news, Wikimedian Bli Bayu has passed away; he was one of the founders of the Wikimedia Bali community.https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/17/in-mem… (English)
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39
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61
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0
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2023-05-04 01:37 UTC
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The final round of voting for #Commons Picture of the Year is now open! :poty:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of… (English)
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39
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2023-04-14 04:46 UTC
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The famous line, "Houston, we have a problem" is actually...a misquote.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problemOn this day in 1970, af… (English)
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37
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50
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0
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2023-05-07 04:56 UTC
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The first week of May was pretty busy, what topic areas did you read or contribute to on #Wikipedia this week?What's the most interesting thing you le… (English)
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19
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42
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2023-05-13 10:00 UTC
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From today's #FeaturedArticle on the English #Wikipedia:The frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) aka frillneck lizard, frill-necked lizard or frille… (English)
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34
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59
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2023-04-20 20:58 UTC
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Hallo Fediverse! 👋#Wikipedia :wikipedia: ist eine vielsprachige, freie Online-Enzyklopädie, die von einer Gemeinschaft aus Freiwilligen, bekannt als W… (Deutsch)
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34
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52
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1
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2023-04-26 21:46 UTC
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안녕하세요 페디버스입니다! 👋#Wikipedia :wikipedia: 는 위키백과인들로 알려진 자원 봉사자 커뮤니티가 개방형 협업과 미디어위키라는 위키 기반 편집 시스템을 사용하여 작성하고 유지 관리하는 다국어 무료 온라인 백과사전입니다.https://ko.wikipe… (한국어)
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33
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14
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2
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2023-04-19 02:05 UTC
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2nd place in #WikiLovesMonuments 2022:The Fetsund Booms, Norway by Jarle Kvam (CC-BY-SA 4.0)Fetsund Lenser er et nasjonalt kulturminne, fløtningsmuseu… (English)
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32
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72
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1
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2023-04-20 18:00 UTC
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The #Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has published its 2022 Environmental #Sustainability Report:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundati… (English)
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30
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43
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0
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2023-04-13 02:03 UTC
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There are currently 332 language editions of #Wikipedia (again, per Wikipedia) - we'll do our best to bring multilingual content, but we would appreci… (English)
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30
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32
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4
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2023-04-22 03:07 UTC
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The #WikiForHumanRights challenge has kicked off, with a theme of "Right to the healthy environment"https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights… (English)
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30
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29
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0
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2023-04-28 14:48 UTC
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In response to questions about the EU's new #DigitalServicesAct, want to share 2 posts about #Wikipedia's designation as a Very Large Online PlatformF… (English)
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30
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28
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2
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2023-05-11 19:13 UTC
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more info on the Nix vs. Heddon article which, I must add, has a delightful "see also" section… (English)
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29
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38
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2
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2023-05-19 08:00 UTC
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Happy #FollowFriday - here are some #Wikimedia affiliates to follow:* @wm_au - Wikimedia Australia (joined the Fediverse last week!) * @wikimediaitali… (English)
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29
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27
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1
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2023-05-02 04:16 UTC
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Happy May! This month we're celebrating Meenakshi nandhini, an administrator on the #Malayalam #Wikipedia https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/30/what-d… (English)
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28
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58
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0
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2023-05-05 08:17 UTC
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The #Wikimedia Foundation legal team has published a blog post about #Wikipedia's "Very Large Online Platform" (#VLOP) status under the #DigitalServic… (English)
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27
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28
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2
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2023-05-29 06:52 UTC
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A new episode of the #Wikimove #podcast came out earlier this month, focusing on #decentralization within the #Wikimedia movementhttps://www.wikimedia… (English)
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26
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29
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2
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2023-04-25 16:12 UTC
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The Museum of Northern #California Art is running an exhibit "Northern California on #Wikipedia", with photos taken by Frank Schulenburg aka @wikiphot… (English)
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23
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29
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0
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2023-04-15 21:00 UTC
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The #Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia's non-profit host) has proposed changes to the Terms of Use and is requesting feedback through April 24: https://… (English)
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22
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17
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1
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2023-04-30 03:53 UTC
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Reminder, there's only a few days left to vote in the first round of the #Commons Picture of the Year contest! :poty:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wik… (English)
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22
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15
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2
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2023-05-18 06:49 UTC
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Reminder: Today is the last day for voting for #Commons Picture of the Year! :poty:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Pictu… (English)
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21
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14
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2023-05-30 14:56 UTC
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I'm probably biased, but I think Colorado is my favorite on this mapxkcd 1079 (CC BY-NC 2.5)… (English)
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7
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2023-04-25 03:55 UTC
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The fourth International #Roma Day edit-a-thon took place earlier this month, "to combat prejudice and discrimination against Roma by spreading knowle… (English)
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36
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0
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2023-04-19 02:11 UTC
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3rd place in #WikiLovesMonuments 2022:Sacred Heart chapel in Zakopane Jaszczurówka, Poland by Jakub T. Jankiewicz (CC-BY-SA 4.0)https://commons.wikime… (English)
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17
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2023-04-30 08:00 UTC
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On the English #Wikipedia, editors track the top 25 viewed articles every week:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_ReportYou can do the sam… (English)
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2023-05-03 05:42 UTC
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Salut Fediverse ! 👋#Wikipedia :wikipedia: est une encyclopédie en ligne multilingue sous licence libre, écrite et maintenue par des bénévoles, les Wik… (français)
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2023-05-23 02:46 UTC
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These photos and the other Picture of the Year finalists are all amazing, hopefully they inspire you to also contribute freely licensed media to #Wiki… (English)
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16
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2023-05-02 10:00 UTC
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The #Wikimedia Foundation is requesting feedback on the proposed 2023-2024 Annual Plan through May 19:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Founda… (English)
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16
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2023-04-18 16:00 UTC
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To better represent Wikipedia's multilingualism, our introduction post can now be translated on-wiki: https://w.wiki/6bXQ (there's already a full Kore… (English)
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15
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2023-04-15 13:00 UTC
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Half as Interesting has a new video explaining English #Wikipedia's dispute resolution process and "Arbitration Committee" (basically the Supreme Cour… (English)
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14
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2023-04-21 06:20 UTC
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The Akan #Wikipedia has been closed because...it's not an actual language, it's a language *family*. Instead, efforts have moved to Wikipedias in the … (English)
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2023-05-03 02:00 UTC
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If you've ever wondered what it looks like when engineers deploy new versions of #MediaWiki to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis (aka the "train"), … (English)
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13
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27
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2023-04-14 22:18 UTC
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There's a formal process for creating a new language edition of Wikipedia, it needs:1. An ISO 639 language code 2. To be sufficiently unique from othe… (English)
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13
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22
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2023-04-29 14:00 UTC
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The #Wikimedia Foundation published their March public policy recap:https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/27/dont-blink-public-policy-snapshot-for-march-… (English)
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2023-04-28 21:00 UTC
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An update on improving search in "a few dozen languages":https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/28/language-harmony-and-unpacking-a-year-in-the-life-of-a-… (English)
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11
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27
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1
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2023-04-17 00:00 UTC
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Voting in the Seventeenth Annual #Commons Picture of the Year contest is open now! :poty:https://w.wiki/6b4VEditors are selecting the best featured pi… (English)
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2023-05-08 04:38 UTC
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Halo, Fediverse! 👋#Wikipedia :wikipedia: adalah sebuah ensiklopedia bebas multibahasa yang ditulis dan dipelihara oleh para sukarelawan yang disebut d… (Bahasa Indonesia)
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2023-04-14 22:08 UTC
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The Gurene #Wikipedia launched earlier this year, as the fourth Ghanaian language to have its own edition.https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/14/gurene… (English)
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2023-04-26 21:50 UTC
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Hallo Fediverse! 👋#Wikipedia :wikipedia: is een meertalige vrije online encyclopedie die geschreven en onderhouden wordt door vrijwilligers, ook beken… (Nederlands)
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2023-04-28 15:19 UTC
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Finally, there's similar legislation/laws out there that will likely include Wikipedia, e.g. UK's Online Safety Bill (ctrl+f "Wikipedia" on https://ha… (English)
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2023-05-09 05:37 UTC
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Hi wiki friends!#WikiNusantara is coming back! The third edition of the conference will be held in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, #Indonesia, on May 2… (English)
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2023-05-10 00:45 UTC
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The #Wikimedia Foundation has published its 2021-2022 "Form 990" tax document along with a summary blog post:https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/05/09/hig… (English)
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2023-04-28 15:12 UTC
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Plenty of unknowns: "it's a new law; it's pretty fuzzy and/or demanding in some areas; and it applies across a very large and diverse region of the wo… (English)
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2023-04-28 14:58 UTC
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The WMF and Wikimedia Europe actively participated in lobbying during the drafting process to ensure that Wikipedia's needs would be allowed, e.g. mod… (English)
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2023-04-20 20:55 UTC
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שלום פדיוורס! 👋#ויקיפדיה :wikipedia: היא מיזם לכתיבה של אנציקלופדיה רבלשונית חופשית מקוונת שמתוחזקת על־ידי קהילת מתנדבים, שידועים כוויקיפדים, באמצעות… (עברית)
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2023-04-28 15:08 UTC
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The designation of "Very Large Online Platform" was not a surprise, the WMF published user numbers (as required) in February:https://foundation.wikime… (English)
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2023-05-09 05:33 UTC
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Hai, Kawan Wiki!#WikiNusantara akan hadir kembali! Konferensi ini merupakan konferensi yang ketiga kalinya dan akan digelar di Banjarmasin, Kalimantan… (Bahasa Indonesia)
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2023-05-08 04:39 UTC
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Rahayu, Fediverse! 👋#Wikipedia :wikipedia: iku sawijining bauwarna mardika manéka basa kang tinulis lan ingopèn déning para naralila aran Wikipédiawan… (Jawa)
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We don't have any actual metrics that can be shared specifically about the impact a boost by us causes, but anecdotally when we boost other people's posts, they would see a significant uptick in boosts/favorites (though obviously that doesn't apply to the top posts from already popular accounts).
| Posts boosted by @Wikipedia - note that boost/favorite/reply counts will be undercounted for non-Mastodon posts
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We just joined Mastodon, please follow us. Still more posts to come soon.… (English)
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2023-04-18 17:20 UTC
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Wikipedia is now on Mastodon, at @wikipedia!They've taken an interesting approach here, as it is an account run by the community, where everyone can c… (English)
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2023-04-16 17:07 UTC
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FediFollows
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#Libraries picks of the day:@SarahHLib - Academic librarian at Bodleian in Oxford UK@wikipedia - Community-run account for the online encyclopaedia@in… (English)
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2023-05-24 13:24 UTC
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rmounce
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BIG preprint just dropped: "Wikipedia and open access"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13945"We find that open-access articles are extensively and increasi… (English)
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2023-05-19 19:29 UTC
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tchambers
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@wikipedia @taavi @mediawiki Integration of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon Identity standards into the software that powers #WikiPedia & other Wiki's is… (English)
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2023-05-10 05:33 UTC
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My @wikipedia success story for the week: Helping get the page for recently departed Black #opera singer #GraceBumbry to the "recent deaths" section o… (English)
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It's time for the latest edition of the #Wikidata Weekly Summary! Here is what happened over the past week! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sta… (English)
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For today’s #MappyMondays, let’s look at a map not of the Earth but of the #NightSky. Here is an animated map that I created in 2008 of the apparent #… (English)
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📎 Link of the day: https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ 📂 Category: Computers » Internet » Services"WikiShootMe V3 (WSM) is a tool to show #Wikidata it… (English)
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I spent a few hours in @inkscape this afternoon updating some ISO 10628 chemical engineering process flow diagram symbol drawings I made that were ref… (English)
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@wikipedia That there's a genus of jumping spiders that look just like ants! "Ant-mimicking jumping spiders" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmarachne… (English)
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Samstagabend Zeit für ein technisches Oldie: Der Commodore PC30-III Fotografiert wie immer im #Wikipedia @Lokal_K Alle Detalfotos des Motherboard unte… (Deutsch)
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En mai, c'est le mois africain sur Wikipédia ! Des idées de femmes géographes originaires de ce continent dont vous aimeriez trouver la biographie sur… (français)
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Once a month, typically the last Tuesday of each month, we have a meeting over Zoom to discuss recent projects.Our next meeting is Tuesday, 25 April 2… (English)
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Another weekend, another #Wikipedia edit. This time I collated all the variants of the BCA assay that I could find. Nice that the original assay & its… (English)
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Yay, got another article about a trailblazing woman of color to @wikipedia's main page "In the News" section: #Chicana politician #GloriaMolina (May 3… (English)
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Books, Passenger stations and ATMs: here is what happened around #Wikidata over the past week! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2… (English)
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@wikipedia I learned who wrote the music for the #BBC’s coverage of the #LondonMarathon - it’s so perfectly fitting I was amazed it wasn’t commissione… (English)
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@wikipedia Statistical physics!I'm currently teaching a university course on the topic, and while it's sometimes a pain in the neck, Wikipedia is the … (English)
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Un peu de #sportféminin pour commencer les vacances...- Madeleine Renaud, championne de France et détentrice du record de #sautenlongueur de 1936 à 19… (français)
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"Bilan" de deux mois de contribution à #Wikipédia sur la culture #LGBT : https://commonists.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/culture-lgbt-au-wikiconcours/… (français)
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The newsletter for April is out! Filled with news, activities and a spectacular gallery of Featured images. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4,… (English)
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L'article Risque de catastrophe planétaire lié à l'intelligence artificielle générale vient d'être créé sur #Wikipédia. Pas très rassurant, mais … (français)
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@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 li… (English)
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@wikipedia @magnusmanske great! A similar feature is implemented in the Wkimedia Commons App (https://commons-app.github.io/) where you can immediatel… (English)
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GitHub, Ears and Flags: here is what happened around #Wikidata over the past week! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_04_24… (English)
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@wikipedia A new Wikipedia article just added a few days ago: Space pharmacologyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_pharmacology… (English)
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@wikipedia The Battle of Puebla: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Puebla… (English)
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Another week, another edition of the Weekly Summary! Here is what happened around #Wikidata over the past week! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat… (English)
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Découvre un bel article sur l'usage grandissant du bourdon Bombus impatiens, un pollinisateur indigène, dans les bleuetières.Et je lit aussi son artic… (français)
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"Where to find references for Wikipedia — #Wikipedia For Beginners"From #Wikimedia #Australia.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE6v_02AAF8… (English)
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@wikipedia For this week, that there is a online database containing genealogical records of Islandic people with a 100% coverage of people who are al… (English)
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Upcoming #Wikipedia excursion to the Greifswald Mire Center in support of efforts to improve coverage of wetland #ecology and related matters across W… (English)
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C'est la belle saison ! Envie de partir à la chasse ? Des gadget de #OpenStreetMap et #Wikimédia vous attendent dans les #wikicaches en #ValléDAoste..… (français)
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Anche su #Wikipedia in italiano si festeggerà la Giornata Internazionale dei Musei. Dal 15 al 21 maggio in collaborazione con i volontari di Wikipedia… (italiano)
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@wikipedia I spent a good amount of time on this page yesterday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest-circle_problem I ended up implementing Welzl's… (English)
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Ultimo weekend per partecipare alla writing week sui "#Musei italiani e non solo" su #Wikipedia 😉 https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_week… (italiano)
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@wikimediaitalia La writing week su #Wikipedia :wikipedia: sui #musei italiani e non solo è iniziata, partecipate numerosi! https://it.wikipedia.org/… (italiano)
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Ett rykande färskt avsnitt av #wikipediapodden med både heta diskussioner och tekniska nödstopp. https://wikipediapodden.se/avsnitt-220-obestamd-dysto… (svenska)
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Qui vi spieghiamo che cos'è #WikimediaCommons e come si attribuiscono correttamente all'autore le #immagini che ci si trovano. La prossima volta che c… (italiano)
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@wikipedia I was watching the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special and they kept mentioning Kevin Bacon and I thought, "Who's Kevin Bacon??"https… (English)
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Heute mache ich Fotos vom „Goldene Sonne“ Award in Kalkar - im grauen Regen. #fotografie #wikipedia… (Deutsch)
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Wikimedia Sveriges årsmöte på gång. Många tack till ArkDes för att vi får vara i era fina lokaler. #WMSE #Wikimedia #ArkDes… (English)
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@wikipedia That I'm descended from a Norse god!*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyr*This is almost definitely not true.… (English)
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Ayer @wikipedia hizo un cambio de interfaz, ¡por primera vez en una década! 😊 Esto facilita el acceso y búsqueda, y se diseñó a partir del feedback de… (español)
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Ett kort men snärtigt avsnitt av #Wikipediapodden med en "can do" attityd. Eller?https://wikipediapodden.se/avsnitt-223-nodo/https://commons.wikimedia… (svenska)
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Trots avsnitt 222 av #Wikipediapodden gör vi inga numerologiska slutsatser i veckans poddavsnitt, men vi besöker en falsk vän.https://wikipediapodden.… (svenska)
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Ett trallande avsnitt av #Wikipediapodden i lyckorus, men inte helt utan problem. https://wikipediapodden.se/avsnitt-224-kvitt-och-dubbelt/https://co… (svenska)
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These are some beautiful pictures y'all. Really gorgeous. Even if you can't vote, check them out.#POTY #CreativeCommons #WikimediaRT: https://wikis.wo… (English)
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Vi avevo parlato recentemente della mappa di #OpenStreetMap visualizzata su #Wikipedia con #Kartographer: se ci cliccate sopra vi si apre una pagina c… (italiano)
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Stu Spasm's Wikipedia article now has an old photo of him.https://rocknerd.co.uk/2023/04/24/stu-spasms-wikipedia-article-now-has-an-old-photo-of-him/#… (English)
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[#Wikipediafr "Edit Check" Invitation de l'équipe rédaction, à la réunion du mercredi 3 mai 2023 : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Commun…] (français)
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In no particular order:
- Work on regularly/semi-regularly posting "interesting content" (see ongoing discussion)
- Recruit more people to suggest content
- Recruit more people to write non-English posts, especially language communities already active on the Fediverse (German, French, ...)
- Build up some "evergreen" content that can be slotted in when we don't have other content ready to go
