#Wikimedia

There's an amazing wealth and variety of graffiti left by pilgrims just at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Let's take a quick look . . .Photo

Sailesh Patnaik

Have you come across the word Juggernaut before? That word has come from Hindu deity Lord Jagannath, maybe reached to Europe in early 13th by Odoric of Pordenone from the

Let me try to clarify and give more details about this diplomatic incident. @Wikimedia applied to be an observer @WIPO because this is the intl forum that discusses issues like

C. Scott Ananian for Brookline Moderator

Bias in machine learning.On the left, @Zoom transcription.On the right, the (correct) YouTube transcription.This error doesn't occur for white voices during this candidate forum. At @Wikimedia we've been studying bias

W. Burlette Carter

There are groups who mass-edit on Wikipedia, especially on transgender issues. No one regulates these groups. They often use students, led by professors who have a particular viewpoint. The professors

Jen DeHart 😷

2020 has been a rough year. this week has been one of the harder ones. so here is a silly and lighthearted thread, in part inspired by that awesome "taylor

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

I've just uploaded 16 images of the Sasanian coins. All are never-before-seen & were displayed for the very first time in June 2019 at the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. My

Math students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have been ordered to buy an external webcam and a means of fixing it over their shoulder so that proctors can

Ciaran Conliffe

If you're walking through the woods and you come across a circle of mushrooms, be wary of stepping inside! Legend has it that these are "fairy rings", and to enter

What's this box? Turns out it's a voice generator from the cold war era used for Short Wave radio stations, known as Number Stations![image: mfs-sammler, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sprach-Morse-Generator.jpg] They were

Key Barrett, MSc

By now, a lot of us have seen the meme about carrying a jackass on their backs in times of crisis. That is, find the jackass in your life and

Dr Siouxsie Wiles

Our #FlattenTheCurve graphic is now up on @Wikipedia with proper attribution & a CC-BY-SA licence. Please share far & wide and translate it into any language you can! Details in

If you have #GeorgeFloydprotest pictures from anywhere in the country that you'd be willing to open license for Wikipedia - please upload them to Wikimedia Commons. I can help with

Old Ireland in Colour

irelandincolour

A short thread on today's featured photo, how it got to where it is, and things to look at... Firstly, the sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_gpo_rising.jpg There are two copies of the photo

Researchers at Carbios and the the University of Toulouse have created a "mutant" variant of leaf-branch compost cutinase that can break the bonds in PET plastics.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/huge-step-forward-mutant-enzyme-could

Bayandur Pogosyan

#Azerbaijan loves talking about #Khojali - and one day, when I have the time, I'll try to talk about it too, but be honest about it - the topic is