Wikipedia 8 months ago

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.

Wikipedia 9 months ago

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:

Tech/Server switch - Meta-Wiki

Wikipedia 10 months ago

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Citation Hunt - Help find citations for Wikipedia articles!

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Wikipedia 10 months ago

⚽ #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. 📜ℹ️ For More History:

Soccer in Australia - Wikipedia

#AustralianHistory #AusHistory #SportsHistory

Wikipedia 10 months ago

🥳 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

Wikipedia 11 months ago

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

Wikipedia 11 months ago

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).