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    May 23

    Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey for over two years now. Today reaches out to the European Court of Human Rights to help end nationwide censorship.

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  2. Oct 17

    These were the most-viewed Democratic candidate articles on Wikipedia during and after Tuesday's in the United States.

    The top five: Tom Steyer, 209,971 page views; Tulsi Gabbard, 196,146; Elizabeth Warren, 108,212; Pete Buttigieg, 104,543; Andrew Yang, 77,767
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  3. Oct 1

    In your opinion, what is the world's most underrated (or overrated) animal?

    242 replies . 35 retweets 320 likes
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  4. Sep 30

    What's the weirdest thing you learned last weekend?

    89 replies . 17 retweets 185 likes
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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 26

    Say welcome to a in a new language: N'Ko!

    8 replies . 23 retweets 76 likes
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  6. Sep 25

    What word have you learned from a book that reminds you of that book to this day?

    86 replies . 11 retweets 165 likes
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  7. Sep 24

    In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai to make and market Hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still manufactures playing cards in Japan and organizes its own contract bridge tournament called the "Nintendo Cup."

    4 replies . 17 retweets 91 likes
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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 23

    We're putting together a planet’s worth of knowledge and ensuring that all of its inhabitants can learn from it in their own languages.

    2 replies . 46 retweets 95 likes
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  9. Sep 20

    This is just one of the ways we’re thinking about how to lower our emissions. If you'd like to read more about our sustainability efforts, check out the report we just published: /8

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  10. Sep 20

    If you’re interested in the technical details about how we did this, you can read more about that: /7

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  11. Sep 20

    In fact, 4 terabytes being sent around the Internet is the equivalent of the CO2 emissions of about a few dozen round-trip flights from San Francisco to Berlin. ✈️ /6

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  12. Sep 20

    Just from a simple technical change, we estimate that we send about 4 terabytes of data around the Internet less per day than we did a year ago. That’s a lot of data! 5/

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  13. Sep 20

    We did this recently by making a small change to how we transmit data. Now people download less stuff every time they open up an article and we send less data. In the end, this makes things appear faster for you and over time, we reduce the site's emissions. /4

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  14. Sep 20

    One way to reduce our environmental impact is to reduce the data we transfer—that is, all the packets of information we need to transfer around the internet to make a Wikipedia article appear for you. /3

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  15. Sep 20

    Many websites, including Wikipedia, can have a big impact on the environment. 🌏🌍🌎 Even a small change in the way we run the site can have an exponential impact in the emissions we create. /2

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  16. Sep 20

    In many parts of the world today, people are participating in the global . You can read more about this year’s events on Wikipedia: /1

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  17. Retweeted
    Sep 20

    Join us! Let's demand immediate action to combat climate change around the world. ⚫️

    Oh hey look, we’ve joined the . Today the Wikimedia Foundation is extending our volunteer leave benefit to participate in this day of action. I hope other employers will join us. ✊✊✊
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  18. Sep 19

    The M3 Amphibious Rig is essentially a self-propelled portable bridge. (Perfect for cats who hate water.)

    M3 Amphibious Rig
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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 19

    Did you know ... that our projects (incl. ) are sustained with approximately one-thousandth the amount of servers of comparable volume websites? Read about this and more in our new sustainability assessment, published today.

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  20. Retweeted
    Sep 18

    This week we finished a year-long effort that's saving readers over 4.3 Terabytes of data bandwidth every day! Thanks , , and many others. For the technical how and why 👉

    Bart chart showing a decline in data cost from 36 kilobytes to just under 28 kilobytes.
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  21. Sep 19

    The Tomb of Bibi Jawindi is considered the most ornate of the five monuments in Uch.

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