wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

For Wikipedia's 25th birthday, I'm sharing Wiki Arcade, a virtual directory of wiki-powered games made by amazing people. 🕹️ playwiki.games

"What an unprocessed photo looks like", a great look at processing a RAW image, by Maurycyz maurycyz.com/misc/raw_pho...

On a flight from Helsinki to JFK and noticed the northern lights while north of Iceland (first time seeing them!). Took my camera out and I'm quite happy with these ~2 second hand-held exposures ✈️🌌

Attention Bryan fans!! There's a group of Wikipedians called WikiPortraits that takes portraits of public figures and navigates press passes. Volunteer with them if you want to support more Bryans or be your own Bryan! website is wikiportraits.org and the account to follow is @wikiportraits.org

ONE DAY LEFT for #WikiLovesMonuments in the United States! Help document history and improve Wikipedia by contributing your photos of historic sites. Ten photos will be selected to win a prize and go on to the international competition! 🌍 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

#WikiLovesMonuments 2025 has started in the U.S.! 📸 Through October, help document history and improve Wikipedia by contributing your photos of historic sites. Ten photos will be selected to win a prize and go on to the international competition! 🌍 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

Back in 2009, I wrote one of my earliest Wikipedia articles on Mandazi, a form of fried bread from Eastern Africa. Now that I'm in Kenya for #Wikimania, I finally got to try it for the first time!

What if every Wikipedia edit spawned an asteroid? At this year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas, US, visitors to the Wikihaus got to find out thanks to a playful, community-built project that turns real-time edits into an old-school arcade game. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Surprised this was up for grabs. starwarsweb.net now redirects to cia.gov (and I'm now the proud owner of a former CIA property 😈)

Fine dining in Istanbul

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine. “A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish. 🔗 Explore: web.archive.org 🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

Normally not much of a browser plugins guy, but as someone who occasionally looks up video game things online, this one's been very nice. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Do you like #wikipedia? Do you like olde timey arcade games? Or, do you just like it when people do cool things on the Internet? (A sort of dying art...)

Wrote a Diff post about WikiAsteroids (asteroids.wiki), discussing the creation of the game and arcade cabinet that debuted during SXSW, as well as the various games and visualizations that have come before. diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/18/w...

Try this game @payravi.dev cooked up when I said “Facts should occupy more physical space in our lives” at recent conference on credibility, trust, and verifiability. If you make arcade cabinets get at us about building out a WikiArcade!

200% tariffs on European wine?

Arrêtez-vous un moment pour apprécier la meilleure réutilisation de Wikipédia EVER 🚀 💥 🪨 asteroids.wiki

my friend kevin just made this game where real-time wikipedia edits are astroids that you have to shoot!!!! when someone creates a new article you get an extra life, and a big astroid mean it was a big wikipedia edit (like that "kids bop 3" one) asteroids.wiki

Introducing WikiAsteroids, a classic arcade asteroids game powered by real-time #Wikipedia edits! ☄️ asteroids.wiki Each edit on Wikipedia spawns an asteroid. The larger the edit, the larger the asteroid. A newly created article spawns an extra life, while a newly registered user spawns a powerup.

What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base 🖼️ godotengine.org/article/muse...

With WikiCredCon 2025 starting today, I had to design some wiki-themed Valentine candies!

"My concept of a glass of wine is very fucked"

I want to put a few Wiimotes into the WinRAR messenger bag and go play Super Smash Bros. Brawl with my friends

My whitest friend switched mid-Kendrick to watch Big Bang Theory

I've been enjoying WikiTok, a simple TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles. Site: https://wikitok.vercel.app/ Source: https://github.com/IsaacGemal/wikitok New ways to explore Wikipedia and adapt for how users consume media...more projects and experiments like this!

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

Happy Public Domain Day! 🎉 Starting today, many new works can be freely shared and even adapted in new ways by everyone. This is why Public Domain Day is a celebration for free knowledge enthusiasts around the world. See what is entering the public domain ➡️ w.wiki/CNUL

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

I sometimes feel the same way, Mr. Scroggs

A perennial UX quirk on #Wikipedia: a new contributor was working on a draft, but didn't click the "Publish page" button because of their (reasonable) assumption that it would publish the page as a live article. They assumed their work is auto-saved like many document editors do and lost their work.

Excited to give this a try! Last time this happened was FriendFeed (which despite its short-lived existence, changed the world in so many meaningful ways)

Enjoying the fact that the Sundance website developer log prints your name every time you resize the window.

I've been using @openvibe.social as my single timeline for Mastodon+Bluesky and it's pretty fantastic. It's nice to be able to seamlessly view and interact with multiple platforms without having to switch apps or think about which platform I'm on. https://openvibe.social/

r/drone mods are tiirrreeeddd

I think the saddest thing about the drone hysteria is that apparently a lot of people have never really looked up at the night sky before this.

Departing Stockholm 🛫

Radicalized by The Lorax

clocked :(

best extension i've installed in recent memory is indie wiki buddy, it fixes search results and redirects you from horrific ad-riddled fandom wikis if an equal or higher quality independent one exists getindie.wiki

Visited the @internetarchive HQ for the first time for their annual party. What a blast.

The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance's annual Cross-Wiki Week is underway! 🎉 Through September 30, contribute to NIWA wikis you don't normally edit for a chance to win one of two $20 eShop gift cards. Learn more and sign up: niwanetwork.org/cross-wiki-w...

I’m in the zone

I'm helping launch a new nonprofit community workspace/coffee shop dedicated to literary/creative arts education in Dallas. If you're a writer, we want you to work here. If you're a donor, we need your support! https://dallasweekly.com/2023/08/apprentice-community-space-set-to-open-in-2024/

Twitter Blue subscriber: i constantly post videos that aren't mine and the copyright holders keep reporting me. what should i do, Elon? Elon Musk: have you considered monetizing those videos that aren't yours?

This housing market is wild.

(scrolling the timeline) attachment disorder. depression. ocd, leaning obsessive. nice. psychopathy. hmm some cluster b personality disorder. close enough. anxiety disorder not otherwise specified. nice. childhood trauma of some kind. we’ll take it.