Notices by Wikipedia (wikipedia@wikis.world)

🎉 Wikipedia is 24 years old today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day

#Wikipedia

Of course the current global cyber outage has a #Wikipedia article already!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2024_global_cyber_outages

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It's Wikipedia's birthday! Here's our baby picture from January 15, 2001

On this day in 1910, a cow named Pauline arrived at the White House.

Photo via Library of Congress, text via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Wayne

Please join us in welcoming @wikimediauk to the fediverse! Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global #Wikimedia movement.

Unfortunately we had a small outage this weekend, but this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that you can download entire copies of #Wikipedia and other freely licensed projects for #offline use via #Kiwix!

Check out @kiwix - https://www.kiwix.org and set it up on your smartphone or laptop or boat so you can access free knowledge wherever you go.

📷: The Goodall Family uses Kiwix on their boat while sailing the Pacific (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Congrats to our friends at @debian :debian: on the successful release of the newest version of the "universal operating system": Debian 12, aka Bookworm

https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610

#Wikipedia runs on #Debian because of its commitment to stability, security and software freedom. We'll be upgrading to bookworm soon!

This week marks 10 years since Edward #Snowden's global surveillance revelations started, including that the NSA's #XKeyscore program was specifically targeting #Wikipedia users.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a recap of the past decade discussing the things we learned, the privacy battles we all won, and what we're still fighting for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/10-years-after-snowden-some-things-are-better-some-were-still-fighting

Voting in the Seventeenth Annual #Commons Picture of the Year contest is open now! :poty:

https://w.wiki/6b4V

Editors are selecting the best featured picture over the previous year from Wikimedia Commons (a free media repository and sister project to Wikipedia).

You need to have made at least 75 edits before Jan 1 to be eligible to vote (https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/ can help you check)

If you haven't seen them yet, check out last year's results: https://w.wiki/67zu

#POTY #CreativeCommons

Hello Fediverse! 👋

#Wikipedia :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. -- or so says our Wikipedia article (https://w.wiki/W).

Follow for cool facts, behind-the-scenes details on editing processes and tips on getting started contributing!

#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons