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Mar 24
In 2017, someone changed Wikipedia's Vatican flag SVG to look more like the Vatican Coat of Arms, which was an honest mistake. Now, you can tell which flag manufacturers and even emojis used the faulty Wikipedia file lol (thread)
noticed by Redditor horizontalhole!
tons of flags have red in the tiara... AKA they appear to have used that faulty file that was on Wikimedia Commons from 2017-2022
and even some emojis have the error! (this is from emojipedia)
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Feb 20
ok seems like people liked hearing about the green and black mode... so here are some cool wikipedia tools, scripts, and settings that you probably didn't know about!
one of the easiest ways to get Wikipedia dark mode is preferences --> gadgets --> dark mode toggle, which gives you this button to toggle between light and dark
wanna know if the article you're reading is good? you can make the article's title color can correspond to the article's quality rating!

preferences --> gadgets--> display an assessment of an article's quality in its page header
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Jan 24
"Index" has been trending on Wikipedia for the past 10 days and nobody knows why! Maybe people are getting REALLY into statistical composite measures, but it's probably just someone's poorly-configured bot
Here's the bug report from last week right when this spike happened phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327027
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Jan 13
Wikipedia editors CANNOT DECIDE WHAT TO CALL THIS THING. By my unofficial count, the 15-year-long debate is ~65k words — as long as a novel (thread) corn
Here is a small sample of impassioned subsections on the talk page of the "Maize" article. The total debate is about as long as books like The Fault in Our Stars and Brave New World
Let's start from the beginning. The "maize" article was created in 2001, one of Wikipedia's first few thousand articles. Since then, there have been official requests to change it to corn in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2022. None have been successful
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Jan 9
Thread of bad submissions to wikipedia logo contests! First up: a bunch of encyclopedias mashed together to form a centipede (a "wikipede") wearing groucho glasses (2003)
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this one was almost selected in 2001! but then it lost to a white globe that's relatively similar to the current logo
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Dec 27, 2022
It's the liminal Christmas/NYE week, arguably the best time to edit Wikipedia. Here are a few ways to get started if you're a new!!
Wikipedia is huge (6.6m articles in English alone) but it needs you! An encyclopedia requires *a lot* of maintenance work — updating topics with recent news, cleaning up prose, adding better sources, etc etc. Here's the backlog! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…
You don't need to be a leading expert on something to contribute to its Wikipedia article — you just need to be able to synthesize sources and follow style guidelines. Most editors I know come with some background knowledge and learn more as they go
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