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'The researchers found that almost 9 million articles on Wikipedia across all languages – around 15% – were orphans, effectively invisible to readers browsing within Wikipedia... In general, pageviews received by non-orphan articles are twice as many as the pageviews of orphan articles.... the researchers also established a cause-and-effect relationship between the addition of in-links to orphan articles and an increase in their pageviews.'

https://news.epfl.ch/news/orphan-articles-the-dark-matter-of-wikipedia/

Wikipedia mentions that it's Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the English version's main page, but to create an account on there and many of the Wikimedia Foundation's other projects you have to complete an inaccessible captcha. They offer an option for someone to create an account for you if you can't fill it in, but that's not good enough.
There's been a ticket open about this since 2006 according to the date stamp and nothing's been done.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845

New release! 🎉 WikiMed by Kiwix medical encyclopaedia v3.2.6 for Linux and Windows. Includes full May 2024 ZIM archive - no extra download needed!

🌟 New feature: Preview article links with a mouseover, long-press, or tab. The popover shows a quick extract from the article and an image (if there is one). See screenshot. 👀

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A page from WikiMed medical encyclopaedia ("Sickle-cell disease") showing the preview popover feature. A popover box shows the start of the article "Pathogenic bacteria" together with an image from the previewed article.
A page from WikiMed medical encyclopaedia ("Sickle-cell disease") showing the preview popover feature. A popover box shows the start of the article "Pathogenic bacteria" together with an image from the previewed article.

Der Kronenburger See in der am Samstagmorgen. 10x geprüft, ob wir auch keine Verbotszonen befliegen. Man hat ja Verantwortung als Drohnenpilot einer @wikimediaDE -Drohne, die zum @Lokal_K gehört. Fotos und Filme auf Wikimedia Commons folgen nächste Woche.
Leider ist der See nach der Hochwasserkatastrophe 2021 immer noch für den Bade- und Sportbetrieb gesperrt.

Blick von der Staumauer (nicht im Bild) in Richtung des Sees mit Zuflusses

I was wondering why I had a flurry of recent visits to a @medium article I wrote in 2018 about a panel of of color speaking on the politics of visibility. I figured out today that it was because one of the speakers, Mexican actress and filmmaker , starred in the series . I cropped some photos of her from the event and added them to @wikipedia and .

(No paywall)

https://funcrunch.medium.com/trans-women-of-color-speak-on-the-politics-of-visibility-800c12a2d853

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nava_Mau

@wmlgbt