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They believe that the only way for Wikipedia to remain able to keep their current neutral status is to get donations from the public rather than payments from companies. It costs a lot of money to keep Wikipedia going, to pay for the computers running 24/7 and the staff that maintains them. That money has to come from somewhere.
The are asking and it borders on scam. This article on it is from 2015 but its essentially the same situation. The foundation is flush with cash yet paints the picture that wikipedia might go off line any time now of you dont help. You can look at their own data and see that revenue (excluding 3rd party donations!) exceeds expenses.
Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack, wherein a 10 members of the doomsday cult "Aum Shinrikiyo" launched five separate Sarin gas attacks onboard five subway trains across three major subway lines in Tokyo. Killed 14, and injured approx 5,000 people, 1,000 of which received serious injuries. The cult itself started out as simple yoga group, which ...
ADMIN MOD. Latest Wikipedia zim dump (97 GB) is available for download. Backup. (crosspost from r/kiwix but relevant to the Data hoarding crowd I believe) As a reminder, Kiwix is an offline reader: once you download your zim file (Wikipedia, StackOverflow or whatever) you can browse it without any further need for internet connectivity.
1. 1413. TIL Kathleen Turner accused Nicolas Cage of stealing a dog and drunk driving on the set of "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986). Cage sued her for defamation and won. In exchange he received a public apology from Turner and admission from her publisher that her claims were false and defamatory. ( en.wikipedia.org)
Vandalism of the Wikipedia page of America's Got Talent star Grace VanderWaal. 9 3. u/zeldafrombotwsfrog. • 4 mo. ago.
A molting baby penguin with its baby feathers still on its head. 9.4K 117. r/MadeMeSmile. • 5 mo. ago. Join. Today I sat next to a 4 year old on my flight. He immediately gave me a hug and asked if I wanted to play dinosaurs. I played dinosaurs with him for the whole flight. His mom took pictures of us.
Come on guys. There are over 5,000,000 unique articles on Wikipedia. Reposts just shouldn't happen. Just in case, try to search the sub for an article you're about to post. Who knows, maybe someone stumbled across the same as you!
This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people. A New Full English Wikipedia Dump is on Kiwix (June 2020) 88.54GB. If you're like me, this is something you've been waiting for since 2018, just noticed after checking the site about an hour ago, I'm sure it's been up longer than that, but ...
The Wikipedia article for Hully Gully explains: The Hully Gully is a type of unstructured line dance often considered to have originated in the sixties, but is also mentioned some forty years earlier as a dance common in the black juke joints in the first part of the twentieth century.