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✧ Bali myna ✧
The Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi) is a medium-sized bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is found in the north-west of the Indonesian island of Bali, and nearby offshore islands. The Bali myna has a length of around 25 centimetres (9.8 inches) and is almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail. It has blue bare skin around the eyes, gre...
The Portsoy area has 10 category A listed buildings on #wikidata. 10 Shorehead, Portsoy has a #wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Shorehead
What do folks think about the "Edge Uniques" cookie being proposed for Wikimedia wikis?
There is a write up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edge_Uniques and a blog post at https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/09/using-privacy-engineering-to-enable-modern-usability-testing-and-defend-against-network-attacks/ where you can start exploring the topic if it is new to you.
Torine Torines #Swedish #mechanic called "The only female mechanic in Scandinavia" & "Doctor of Sewing machines". Introduced to #Sweden in 1850s sewing machines were so popular she built successful business & spent 45 yrs repairing them b. #OTD 11 Apr 1876 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torine_Torines
@CarveHerName @histodons #Wikipedia
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ banded sugar ant ✧
The banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus) is a species of ant endemic to Australia. A member of the genus Camponotus in the subfamily Formicinae, it was described by German entomologist Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson in 1842. Its common name refers to the ant's preference for sweet food and the distinctive orange-brown band around its...
#Australia #Camponotus #IndigenousAustralians #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_sugar_ant
#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 6 hours ago
Senate File 418
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Vivienne Pinay
* American drag performer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Pinay
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Vivienne_Pinay
Wikimédia France lauréate de l’appel à projets « En commun : la tech libre »
Un projet qui va permettre de mettre à jour le l’outil d’aide à la modération de contenus sur Wikipedia en français.
Merci à la fondation Free et à share it pour leur soutien
#LiveRC #Wikipédia #modérateurs #mécénat
https://www.wikimedia.fr/wikimedia-france-laureate-de-lappel-a-projets-en-commun-la-tech-libre/
Montpellier: Permanence | Wikipermanence, Le lundi 14 avril 2025 de 19h00 à 22h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/31494 #cabalherault #permanence #wikimedia #wikipedia #wikipermanence #rencontre
Here is that #Wikimania submission: Achieving more together: free knowledge as a bridge for #collaboration between #Wikimedia and other #volunteer initiatives. Unfortunately, they're using a non-public review process again this year.
If you're involved in #volunteering activities and haven't considered #Wikipedia or its sister projects as potential partners yet, now is a good time to give that a thought, and I'd be happy to think along.
Wondering #WHY there is no article about #US airman #AaronBushnell on #German - #Wikipedia? What's the secret that people in #Deutschland must not know?
From @internetarchive on Blsky : "How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.
Full video 
youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU
#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek
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#digitalpreservation #web
Web-Tipps: Lehrreiches Scrollen
WikiTok bringt Wikipedia-Wissen im TikTok-Stil: große Bilder, kurze Texte, endloses Scrollen. Das ist trotz teilweise niedriger Bildqualität unterhaltsam.
Comment présentait-on #Wikipédia y'a une vingtaine d'années ? Voilà un exemple de présentation que j'ai faite en 2007 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Club_(Engref,_2007-03-20).pdf #WikiArchive
@bplein Before generative AI, people had the same behavior with other sources of knowledge, like encyclopedias. I remember seeing kids just copy and paste the content of a Wikipedia article without checking their sources. But they were just kids, and it's fundamental to teach them how to use an encyclopedia, that it's just a starting point, and if you want to go deeper into a topic, you have to check reliable sources.
I think the situation today is similar to your description. We have text generators that give convincing answers to the unwary, and those who haven't learned to question the sources of knowledge will accept LLM answers without any critical thinking. The same is true of encyclopedias, books, magazines, and any other sources of knowledge.
The importance of critical thinking has never been as important as it is today, especially given how easy it is to create disinformation campaigns using generative AI.
#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 7 hours ago
Lex (app)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28app%29
Lex is a dating and social app launched in 2019 for LGBTQ+ users
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
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Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl
* 2023 promotional single by Chappell Roan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Graphic_Ultra_Modern_Girl
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Super_Graphic_Ultra_Modern_Girl
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✧ The Jewish Cemetery ✧
The Jewish Cemetery is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. Painted in 1654 or 1655, it is an allegorical landscape painting suggesting ideas of hope and death, while also being based on Beth Haim, a cemetery located on Amsterdam's southern outskirts, at the town of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. Beth Haim is a resting place for ...
#Amsterdam #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Cemetery
