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DYK for Murad Al-Katib

On 1 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Murad Al-Katib, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Murad Al-Katib. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Murad Al-Katib), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year to you, Mary Mark Ockerbloom!

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Mary Mark Ockerbloom: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. Wil540 art (talk) 14:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wil540 art (talk) 14:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red January 2025

Women in Red | January 2025, Vol 11, Issue 1, Nos 324, 326, 327, 328, 329 Online events: New: Music (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run A & B | Internet personalities Continuing: #1day1woman (year-long initiative) | Women who died in 2024 Announcements from other communities Celebrate Wikipedia Day on Jan 15, 2025 Participate in #1Lib1Ref Jan 15 – Feb 5, 2025 Tip of the month: Celebrate WiR's 20% achievement by adding {{User:ForsythiaJo/20%Userbox}} to your user page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty-eighth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 10, 13 and 15.

User group news

• User group meeting in December (minutes)
• We have adopted an annual plan for 2025!

Other news

• Lightning talk by Adam Harangzo - National Institute for Health and Care Research on Wikipedia (SDG 3&13)
• Top photos of the special nomination “Human Rights and Environment” from Wiki Loves Earth 2024! (SDG 10&15)
• Two days, 15 editors, 750 edits (SDG 15)
• A Peekaboo Into Our Butterflying Trip from the Amazon of the East (SDG 15)
• Brooklyn College students bring ecology course content to Wikipedia (SDG 13&15
• Declaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on WikipediaDeclaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on Wikipedia (SDG 13)

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DYK for Bea Hines

On 6 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bea Hines, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bea Hines. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bea Hines), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:02, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: December 2024

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue XII, December 2024 Headlines Albania report: The Patrolling Edit-a-thon in Albania and Kosovo, 2024 Argentina report: Last activities of 2024 Brazil report: Catrapilha in action: Uploading the Porto Alegre image feed India report: Living GLAM project on Santali culture continues in West Bengal Netherlands report: From SlideShare to Zenodo & How Dutch Wikipedia uses the Digital Library for Dutch Literature New Zealand report: Wikdata module, Auckland Museum student progress, and the Wikipedian at Large Nigeria report: Digitization of Heritage Archives in Nigeria North Macedonia report: Conference for GLAM employees in Skopje Poland report: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland Portugal report: Wikimedia Portugal and Wiki Editoras Lx Collaborate on a Wiki GLAM, Culture, and Heritage Conference for 2025 Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: 2024 in review USA report: December meetings Public Domain Day report: Public Domain Day 2025 Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group December monthly highlights Memory of the World report: Ways forward Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

• From the editors: Looking back, looking forward

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024

• In the media: Will you be targeted?

• Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last

• Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia

• Opinion: Reflections one score hence

• News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free

• Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next

• Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia

• In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?

• Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics

• Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia

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Women in Red February 2025

Women in Red | February 2025, Vol 11, Issue 2, Nos. 326, 327, 330, 331 Online events: New: Black women | Alphabet run C & D Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements from other communities: Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history Tip of the month: Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed ones on Creative Commons search Suggestion: Consider helping to promote women under In the news and On this day on Wikipedia's main page Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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