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Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Katherine Maher has since moved on to become CEO of NPR. She’s a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. She’s got security state & military-industrial complex written all over her resume. “But NPR isn’t state affiliated media.” Uh-huh.

Help writing something about this on Wikipedia? That way, unsuspecting readers can learn more about how Coke is a totally humane and considerate company.

The articles in question are "Coca Cola" and "Criticism of Coca Cola"

Maybe you are willing and able ✌️

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2592194

personally: I created and wrote 88.1% of the Afrobeats Wiki page and got it nominated as a Good Article status.

What about you?

Ekuikui V sometimes dubbed himself as the "king of (all) Ovimbundu". In early 2021, Ekuikui V was sentenced to six years in prison by the Provincial Court of Huambo (TPH) for his implication in a murder in 2017. Ekuikui V had issued a judgment in a traditional court case, finding Jacinto Kamutali Epalangana guilty of killing a child. Following the judgment, Jacinto was beaten to death.

On the 3 March, 2021, he was ousted from the throne following a meeting of the Angolan Association of Traditional Authorities (ASSAT). Ekuikui V had previously claimed to be the president of ASSAT, despite no election confirming him as such. He was accused of various offences, such as forcing a son of his predecessor, Ekuikui IV, to walk around Bailundo naked. He was also accused of witchcraft, concentration of powers, and illegal sales of land. It was elected at the time that João Kawengo Kasanji would replace Ekuikui V as king, and that he would take the regnal name of Tchingala TChangungu Vangalule Mbulu. Ekuikui refused to accept the decision to remove him from the throne, and denied all of the aforementioned accusations.

In March 2021, it was announced that Isaac Francisco Lucas Somaquesenje had been installed as king of Bailundo, with the regnal name Tchongolola Tchongonga Ekuikui VI. The enthronement ceremony was attended by the provincial governor and other guests. Part of the ceremony included the newly-appointed king sitting at the entrance of his official residence and collecting a basket containing white cornmeal (omemba). This was then fed to an animal which was later sacrificed. The king later received a sword (ondelia), signifying his traditional power. Tchongolola Tchongonga is a grandson of the former king, Ekuikui IV. He was elected to the throne by the court of Ombala (a council of elders[1]) in May 2021, receiving 153 votes out of a total of 206 voters. João Kawengo Kasanji in contrast, only received 31 votes.

I recently discovered this:

1. Create an account
2. Go to your common.js page
3. Paste in the following and save:

mw.loader.load( "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%C3%9Ejarkur/NeverUseMobileVersion.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript" );

See the script page for more info.

And voilà! Wikipedia will now redirect you to the desktop site if ever you land on the mobile version of Wikipedia, so long as you're logged in.

All you have to do is enter the url of a wiki page you want it to run on and tick the box next to:

add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)

You can also just enter the title of the page instead of the full url, i.e enter Grime_(music_genre) instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grime_(music_genre) - but either works!

Pages with a lot of sources can sometimes take some time to complete (it does it all in the background for you), this is normal :)

cross-posted from: https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/110594401261474756

Can you help translate the Wikipedia article about Lemmy into your own language?

Currently it's only in 4 languages, so there's a lot of translation to be done!

#English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

#German / #Deutsch
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(Software)

#Ukrainian / #українська
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(програмне_забезпечення)

#Basque / #Euskara
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(softwarea)

(UPDATE, its now at 12!):

• English
• 中文
• Русский
• Українська
• Deutsch
• Español
• Esperanto
• Euskara
• Français
• Nederlands
• Português
• Runa Simi

In 1944, codenames related to the D-Day plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, which the British Secret Services initially suspected to be a form of espionage.

Famously he offered 26-year-old Ohio housewife Michelle Murray the option (in return for a reduced prison sentence) of spending a night in the woods for abandoning 35 kittens in a forest in wintertime

Stolen peaches, wild dogs and rampant cheating... just some of the fun of the 1904 olympic marathon. I nominate this as the most entertaining article on Wikipedia!

Great article about radioactivity in bananas!

The following line had a citation needed tag 😅:

At no point is the child's nose actually removed from the child's face.