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On the bright side

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By Pine

Week of 31 May 2020

A reminder to be patient with new users.

Wikipedia is like 'find a car, you don't need a license, and try driving without crashing. And oh, here's a highway code that you can try to read while driving'.
— mynameisnotdave via meta:IRC/Quotes

Week of 7 June 2020

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Week of 14 June 2020

The English Wikipedia Picture of the Day for 19 June 2020 was of Sojourner Truth.

The text below was written by

User:Coffeeandcrumbs, and User:Ravenpuff
.

Union Army
, and after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.

This photograph of Truth was taken around 1870, accompanied by the caption "I sell the shadow to support the substance", emphasizing her financial acumen. The image is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

Photograph credit: Randall Studio; restored by Coffeeandcrumbs

Week of 21 June 2020

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  • Not quite "this month", but the stats for the month of May show that the Hebrew Wikipedia, Farsi Wikipedia, and Turkish Wikipedia all reached new all-time highs in numbers of very-active (100+ edits) editors. Congratulations to hewiki, fawiki, and trwiki! --Yair rand (talk) 19:00, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • A reminder to be patient with new users. - When is a new user no longer a new user? Just as it is in the world that we learn at our own paces, on Wikipedia some users may grasp this place within 5000 edits, while others, like me may take over 10,000. Whatever the number, we are glad when new users stick around on Wikipedia. I am grateful that Wikipedia continues to attract new editors and that this place has been built to make sure that a small percentage of those new users stay with us.
    talk) 04:10, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply
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