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1: Wikipedia content only: Submissions must either be from Wikipedia or another Wikimedia site (such as the Wikimedia Commons), or from another source discussing Wikipedia or issues relevant to it. Overly partisan sources and links to articles on alternative wikis will be removed.
2: Submission etiquette: Please refrain from editorializing submission titles; any overly-editorialized submissions may be removed. No TIL format posts, and please try to avoid mobile links.
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5: Not your personal army: Submissions relating to personal editing conflicts on Wikipedia are not allowed. Meta discussion of large-scale or noteworthy editing conflicts is allowed. If you have questions about a particular situation, consider using our weekly Q&A thread.
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To link to a specific version of a Wikipedia article:
- On the page you want, click the "View History" tab at the top right.
- Find the version you'd like to link to, and click the timestamp.
- Copy the URL of that page, and voila, you can link to that exact version.
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Easy way to download everything to a thumb drive?
Considering the world and all the seemingly unpredictable things that are happening. I wanted to download all of Wiki to a thumb drive to keep as a sort of, cold drive time capsule. I have an extra 15gb thumb drive and wanted to know if there was an easy way to download everything.
17:38 UTC
Bad faith edits seemingly increasing on pages related to the Jan 6, 2021 attack
Just a warning and a request for serious, good faith editors to check out the histories of pages related to the Jan 6 attack. It seems this month specifically, there's been an uptick in people changing the language of the pages to be less intense or, I guess, incriminating? Phrases like "Jan 6 attack" being changed to "Jan 6 peaceful protest"; people who seemingly participated in the attacks editing out their mentions in the text, or adding stuff (I saw one IP edit an article link's headline to say that a specific rioter was falsely accused, while adding a line to the page that said "our group actually went to the capitol at this time", this edit was not noticed for a week), people adding "dubious notability" tags or deletion discussions to pages about certain elements of the attack with 30 reliably-sourced references, etc etc etc. I won't link to these specific edits to not start edit wars but it's worth checking out.
13:43 UTC
Wikipedia has blocked me from doing anything and I’ve never even used it before, I tried different devices, without vpn, with vpn, with and without WiFi, how can I fix this IP ban?
23:39 UTC