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I&I22 (talk) 16:48, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Mmmm I love this image by artist Paul Klee. I keep returning to it. I love it, well, because I love Klee's playful, vibrant work generally and also adore the writing by Walter Benjamin on this piece, which he owned himself. The writing, "Theses on the Philosophy of History", was published posthumously.

"His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back his turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress." I&I22 (talk) 17:00, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Emojipedia make your own emojis I&I22 (talk) 17:44, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 & Feminism and Folklore 2026 I&I22 (talk) 15:03, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Formatting Images
Standard Thumb: [ [File:Example.jpg|thumb|This is a caption] ] .
Left Aligned: [File:Example.jpg|thumb|left|Caption].
With Alt Text: [File:Example.jpg|thumb|alt=Descriptive text|Caption].
Custom Size: [File:Example.jpg|thumb|300px|Caption] (sets width to 300px).
Relative Size: [File:Example.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Caption]

How to move a conversation Template:Moved discussion from.

Recently Active Wikipedia editors - no idea what I would use this for? But interesting anyways.

Wikipedia - Teahouse - spot to ask questions

Wikipedia:Adopt-a-typo

Wikipedia:Task Center How to be Helpful- find tasks ppl need help with

[ Moving Articles to Draft spaces

Wikipedia:Requested articles

Movement Charter "The Wikimedia Movement is an international, sociocultural movement, whose vision is to bring free knowledge to the whole world. This Wikimedia Movement Charter (“Charter”) lays out the values, principles, and policy basis for Wikimedia Movement structures, including the roles and responsibilities of existing and new entities, and of decision-making bodies in the shared vision of free knowledge. This Charter applies to everyone and everything officially associated with the Wikimedia Movement: all individual and institutional participants, movement entities, projects, and online and offline spaces."

WikiEdu "Mission

Wiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia, enrich student learning, and build a more informed public.

Vision

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[Scripts]

Selected Anniversaries - A whole new project! Selected items for the daily home page

Nupedia

OpenRefine "This course is an introduction to using OpenRefine to make bulk edits to Wikidata. It is designed for those who have some knowledge of Wikidata, and who have done at least some manual editing of Wikidata already. No prior knowledge of OpenRefine is required. The course covers some basic OpenRefine tasks such as faceting, moving and renaming columns, reconciliation, creating a schema, and creating new columns from reconciled values. We show you how to make bulk edits to existing Wikidata items, as well as how to create new items. We also cover how to use OpenRefine to look for gaps on Wikidata. This is a short course which we estimate would take around 4 hours to complete." Led by Dr. Sara Thomas Programme Manager @ Wikimedia UK

How to fix images and sizing Wikipedia:ImageSize.

https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/

How to edit in Wikidata (video yay!) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics on Youtube

Wikidata games

Consent form if submitting photos for ppl who do not want to upload their photos but consent to sharing images

How to Check Pageview Stats

Train the Trainer - WikiLearn - take course at some point to host events

GLAM - understanding templates

GLAM telegram

WikiLearn course OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics!

Wikipedia pages wanting photos

UNESCO Memory of The world challenge 2025

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hip-hop/Article alerts

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hip-hop/Members

Video2commons - upload spot for videos & audios

Wikipedia:Short description#Why can't I see any short description? says you should enable Shortdesc helper in your gadgets preferences

"We must dare to dissent more" A farewell interview with Lukas Mezger, Chairman of the Board of Wikimedia Germany- navigating committees

Future Audiences - developing wp future audiences

Here from WT:DYK. Per WP:DYKHOOK

Anna's Archive

WP:Wikipedian in residence - i would LOVE to do this!!!

Website: www.wikilovesfolklore.org

leaving us some feedback

Developing Countries WikiContest

The Wikipedia adventure WP:GOLDENRULE

Userboxes

WP:Userboxes#Grouping userboxes

JSTOR ICA Archives

Wiki meetup

WP:ABC - abbreviations lexicon

Wikimedia UK

Discussion list Wiki Education -

Training modules

I&I22 (talk) 15:03, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

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I&I22 (talk) 13:37, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Where to get help

How to improve a draft

• Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
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You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

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Editor resources

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A mission to archive within Wikipedia open source free knowldege format audio, podcasts, oral histories, conversations, storytelling.

Existing comparable sound archives:

Internet Archive

MusicBrainz I&I22 (talk) 13:52, 30 July 2025 (UTC) Someone suggested Soulseek

	I&I22, there've been some ups and downs along the way, but I have enjoyed being your adopter as I watch you turn into a great contributor to this encyclopedia. Your list of interesting resources is very cool, and your incredible enthusiasm is seen. Happy holidays to you and yours, and here’s to a wonderful new year!

GoldRomean (talk) 19:14, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays and New Year to you @GoldRomean! Thank you for all!

Yes, I am laughing to myself at your message a bit as for sure yes, ups and downs and all for good in the end.

Ah, to be an extremely passionate person is not always easy for anyone and those around them,

Better than being apathetic maybe? > . < o dear.....

Thank you for your consistent grace and generous sharing and guidance dearest GoldRomean!

Wishing you and yours and all the amazing glorious kind editors on Wikipedia all the good things in life!

And may I learn more about Wikipedia so smoother process getting things done and engaging ha!

I have a list of new articles to work on when can, also still thinking about how to go about better Wikipedia sound archive.

Ever warmly, I&I22 (talk) 12:06, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Also so sorry I deleted everything in a tidal wave of erasure on my talk and user pages in an attempt to start again afresh/Tabula rasa and be more minimal so less trouble.

An attempt to maintain autotelic clarity gahhhhhh!

Including the invitation to sign your guest page booooOooOoOoOoo, which i enjoyed supporting, although don't know if my notice did anything at all to send people your way.

Happy New Year GoldRomean and may you have many calm and collected and untroubly constructive Wikipedia-adoptees yahoooOooOOOoOOoOoooOOoo weeEeEeEEeeEEeeeEEEeEEEEeEEeEEeeeeee! I&I22 (talk) 12:31, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

You've nothing to apologise for! I&I22, stay awesome, and happy new year! GoldRomean (talk) 20:39, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Awww very kind of you @GoldRomean! Thank youoouuou and ditto <3<3<3. I&I22 (talk) 15:11, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

- Translate into English - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/fr I&I22 (talk) 11:34, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Notes and Insights from Teahouse conversation on drafting

---> moved the article in question to the draft space, since per Wikipedia:DRAFTIFY,

Drafts start directly at drafts:XYZ

Draft:Title as explained above. SomeoneDreaming

Publish means save work

What you can do instead is use the WP:Article wizard, The other option is that you can create a page by searching for "Draft:Subject" (replacing Subject with what you're writing about), which will tell you the page doesn't exist, and from that you can create a new draft. So for example I'm interested in writing an article about artists called the Numina Sisters, so I would put "Draft:Numina Sisters" in the search bar and then select the red link Draft:Numina Sisters. If you choose this second option, you'll need to put at the very top of your draft so that you get the magic submission button to show up. Once your draft is ready for review, you simply press that button and your draft will go into the review pool. Meadowlark (talk) 10:15, 3 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

choose between a userspace draft and a draftspace one. S.G. (They/Them)

content translation tool I believe it saves automatically.

WP:CLOP, WP:COPYVIO. WP: Quote you can often find policies or guidelines you're looking for by typing WP: quotation policy by typing WP:QUOTE. WP:DRAFT to get more info Sometimes people will say things like 'per INDY' or 'not a RS' or '3RR' use the WP: search for WP:INDY

Bildungsroman - coming of age folktale/novel I&I22 (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

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Schönen Februar @Gerda Arendt! On February 1st was the Snow Moon, spring is coming. Hard to believe as we are still in deep wintery snows and making lots of delicious maple taffy.

Enjoyed your story today as adore soccer/footballa dn used to play competitively. Also loved to learn that the building, Musiktheater im Revier is a Gesamtkunstwerk! I will invetigate woot woot! Wishing you a fabulous and inspired day. Warm regards, I&I22 (talk) 12:38, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

OOoooOoOOoOoo I see that the building features a mobile by Jean Tinguley! I adore this artist. I&I22 (talk) 12:46, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a Tinguely Museum! Of course there is, my goodness... I did not know about this...wow....ok I am writing to myself Gerda! very exciting discovery, who knew that a love of music, soccer, Jean Tinguely and art in general could all come together?

Truly he is one of my favourite artists, but never looked for his museum. There was an amazing building that he created somewhere with Niki de Saint Phalle, whose work I adore also. I&I22 (talk) 13:09, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for all the references, - I was a bit too busy, to help bringing four people to yesterday's main page, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) - today's story still related. - I studied where Niki's works have been on public display for five decades. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Yahooooooo @Gerda Arendt! No worries at all, as I appreciate that you are very busy. Never any pressure to respond.

SO AMAZING that you studied there!!!

Congratulations on all the phenomenal main page successes!! WooohooOOooooOOOOOOOO!

Brava!! I&I22 (talk) 12:29, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Also love today's story as adore Saint Francis of Assisi.

I often incorporate references to him into my artworks.

Very cool the Sprengel museum is!!! Gorgeous and perhpas inspired Frank Gehry? The ARt Gallery of Ontario's renovation looks a bit informed by the Sprengel museum's architecture. I&I22 (talk) 12:46, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

By the way, these additional notes are for me Gerda! Am so curious about all, I have foudn the connection between architect Gehry and the Sprengel museum in an article on Kurt Schwitters.

"The Merzbauten: Influence" I&I22 (talk) 12:50, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

O, but see it is sad news as José van Dam has passed away. My condolences. I&I22 (talk) 12:53, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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Head of Research I&I22 (talk) 16:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata slide show from Wikimedia-in-Residence, Dr. Martin Poulter's, Wikimedia UK workshop I&I22 (talk) 14:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Online Introduction to Wikipedia Editing By Wikimedia UK Location TBC Thursday, Mar 26, 2026 from 6 pm to 8:30 pm

"Overview Join us to learn how you can contribute to Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia, written and maintained by a community of volunteers. Trainers from Wikimedia UK will give an overview of how to edit Wikipedia, why it is important and will help you get started on your Wikipedia editing journey.

Everybody is welcome. No special skills are needed. Come with your curiosity!

This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with experience alike. Whether you’re new to Wikipedia or would like to brush up your skills, this session is perfect for you - we’ll provide training at the beginning of the session. More experienced editors who’d like to come along are also very welcome! We’ll have a list of suggested articles to work on, but if you have something that you’d like to edit please bring that too! The session will be held on Zoom and details will be sent to all attendees closer to the date." I&I22 (talk) 11:31, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Aribert Reimann's 90th birthday, with a hook mentioning his 80ths, the opera played by Oper Frankfurt after he died, see video, and I was there. - Ruta de los Volcanes is among the latest places. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Danke @Gerda Arendt! That is so cool,that you were at the Melusine opera for Aribert Reimann's 80th birthday! So fun and quite amazing that you are linked to all these amazing musical moments. I love the etching that you chose today, March 9th "Apelisches Haus" in Leipzig Engraving, 1720! I&I22 (talk) 15:05, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I was at the other Melusine, hope that was clear. I once was at his Medea, and there he was also, surprise, listening to a normal performance in the city where he lived. I recognised him by the lead image. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes I understood that you attended the later opera @Gerda Arendt. Just replied too quickly and awkwardly, so my response was less clear. Thank you and look forward to tomorrow's story. I&I22 (talk) 00:37, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Opera again, Written on Skin, and guess what they showed in the program book: Klee's Angelus Novus ;) - Well, three roles are angels turning also into other other roles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt helloooo! Oooo so lovely! Thank you for letting me know. I visited Aix-en-Provence once and had an unbelievably mystical experience there. Beautiful! I will look at Written on Skin, what a treat to learn about it as know nothing at all. At the moment, I work on a magic realism story for young readers and am incorporating references to both Wikipedia in honour of its many years and also Mozart’s the Magic Flute opera which is filled with references to the Free Masons’s symbols which are actually I believe from Druid cultural symbols. Soooo fascinating and delightful and am intrigued to know how the young readers will react to these interwinings of cultural histories. So fun 🤩! Thank youuu for letting me know. Warmly, I&I22 (talk) 21:23, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

What an amazing story it has! And the angels are archivists! Very cool. I&I22 (talk) 21:29, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes. Yes. Yes! - Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page, I'm most proud of a woman's work, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 16 March 2026 (UTC)