Wikipedia

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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. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. (from https://w.wiki/W)

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LicenseCC-BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Learn to edithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction
Random articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Wikipedia5d ago

That was quick!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_European_power_outage

2025 European power outage - Wikipedia

WikipediaApr 26
nixCraft 🐧Apr 26
Humans independently edit Wikipedia for humans. They don’t have any Ads or cannot be bullied into removing content. Wikipedia is free from AI slop. No wonder tech bros with AI companies want to eliminate it so that their fake AI text generator can show or push propaganda. Please do not let Wikipedia die. It is an independent source and far more reliable than Gen AI companies. It is a real shame that it comes to this.
WikipediaApr 6

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.

Show threadWikipediaMar 19

The really nerdy and cool information (which I'm sure some of you are here for!) about how the switch takes place is at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter

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Switch Datacenter - Wikitech

WikipediaMar 19

The @wikimediafoundation 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: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch

Tech/Server switch - Meta

WikipediaMar 10
Kevin PayraviMar 10

Introducing WikiAsteroids, a classic arcade asteroids game powered by real-time #Wikipedia edits! ☄️

https://asteroids.wiki/

Each edit to an article on Wikipedia spawns an asteroid. The larger the edit, the larger the asteroid (and the more shots it takes to destroy). A newly created article spawns an extra life, while a newly registered user spawns a powerup.

WikiAsteroids - Real-time Wikipedia Space Shooter

A space shooter game powered by real-time Wikipedia edits. Shoot asteroids representing article changes and collect powerups from new articles and editors.

WikiAsteroids
WikipediaFeb 27
WikipediaDec 15, 2023
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.
WikipediaFeb 27
Peersky BrowserFeb 26

Try our lightweight, open-source search interface for browsing @wikipedia over IPFS.

http://wiki.p2plabs.xyz
ipns://wiki.p2plabs.xyz/
hyper://wiki.p2plabs.xyz/

#wikipedia

IPFS Wikipedia Search

A lightweight, open-source search interface for browsing Wikipedia over IPFS (InterPlanetary File System).

WikipediaFeb 21
Sammy 🔜 GPNFeb 21

Someone somewhere is not handling a null value correctly...  

(this is daily pageview data for the Null page on the English Wikipedia)

#Wikipedia

Null - Wikipedia

WikipediaFeb 18
Have you heard about https://citationhunt.toolforge.org ?