Media
Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. 1)
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopedias in all languages of the world.
Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a project to create a multilingual free content dictionary in every language.
Wikiquote
Wikiquote is a repository of quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote.
Wikibooks
Wikibooks aims to build a collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books. It aims to help both (self-)instruction of students and teachers in high schools and universities.
Wikisource
Wikisource is a multilingual project to archive a collection of free and open content texts.
Wikispecies
Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based project to provide a central, more extensive species database for taxonomy. It covers living and fossil representatives of Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.
Wikinews
The Wikinews project was launched with the mission to report the news on a wide variety of subjects. Contributors from around the world write news articles collaboratively. Reports range from original reporting and interviews to summaries of news from external sources. All reports are required to be written from a neutral point of view.
- South African 'Lion Man' killed by his lions (2019/08/22 18:32)
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Leon van Biljon, owner of Mahala View Lion Lodge near Pretoria, South Africa, was killed by his lions on Tuesday. Van Biljon, reportedly often referred to as 'The Lion Man', had been in the lions' area attempting to mend a fence at the time, according to local news media.
Mahala View Lion Lodge formerly billed itself as home to three lions: Rambo, Katryn and Nakita. It is one of over two hundred lion lodges in South Africa, which collectively house and breed more than six thousand lions, scientists report, a population larger than that of wild lions in South Africa.
Connie Moganedi, a spokeswoman for the police department of nearby Cullinan, told CNN, neighbors from other lodges nearby attempted, but were unable, to save van Biljon. In the wake of van Biljon's death, Connie Moganedi said, the lions were killed. Van Biljon was seventy years old.
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- Amy Woodyatt. "Man killed by his own captive lions in South Africa" — CNN, August 21, 2019
- Jackie Salo. "Safari lodge owner known as ‘Lion Man’ mauled to death by captive big cats" — New York Post, August 21, 2019
- Hong Kong protests continue through police opposition, rainstorms (2019/08/19 19:50)
Monday, August 19, 2019
Yesterday, what organizers estimated at 1.7 million Hongkongers, about a quarter of the city's population, marched from downtown Victoria Park toward the Central district, despite both pouring rain and police disapproval in the eleventh week of pro-Democracy protests against Chinese government encroachment on Hong Kong's rights and freedoms.
The Civil Human Rights Front had sent the police a plan for yesterday's march, which they rejected, approving only a gathering in Victoria Park.
Protesters started at the park, Causeway Bay, and Tin Hau early yesterday afternoon and walked until early evening, when police vans arrived, and the crowds dispersed. Many carried signs or wore eyepatches in reference to a young woman whose eye was said to have been severely injured by police in an earlier protest.
A university student named Wong said, "Even though the weather was so bad, even in the face of threats of the People's Liberation Army and water cannons, Hong Kong people never back down. [...] For as long as the government doesn't respond, there will only be more large-scale protests."
Hongkongers have been protesting since early June, when their government proposed a bill that would have allowed the central Chinese government to extradite people who had been accused of crimes from Hong Kong and try them in the mainland's judicial system. Although the bill was suspended, protesters' demands have expanded to complete dismissal of the bill, an investigation of police misconduct during the protests, and greater democratic reform, including a more representative process of electing Hong Kong's leaders.
The British relinquished control of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Since then, the territory has been governed under the "one country, two systems" model, meaning the Chinese government has allowed Hong Kong to have its own legislature, justice system, and capitalist economic system.
Related news[edit]
- "Hong Kong protesters surround downtown police complex" — Wikinews, June 23, 2019
Sources[edit]
- Verna Yu and Lily Kuo. "Hong Kong: 1.7m people defy police to march in pouring rain" — The Guardian, August 18, 2019
- Mantai Chow, Thomas Yau, Lea Li, and Bonnie Au. "Anti-government protesters flock to Hong Kong park for major rally on eleventh consecutive weekend of unrest" — South China Morning Post, August 18, 2019
- Ramy Inocencio. "Some 1.7 million take part in 11th week of Hong Kong protests" — CBS, August 18, 2019
- "Hong Kong protests: Thousands surround police headquarters" — BBC News Online, June 21, 2019
- "Hong Kong profile - Timeline" — BBC News Online, June 24, 2019
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Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a project dedicated to learning materials and learning communities, as well as research. Wikiversity is not limited to university (or tertiary) level materials, but is open to materials and communities of all learner levels. The way it can facilitate learning activities and communities is still being explored, but is centered around the model of 'learning by doing', or 'experiential learning'.
Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage aims to create the world's largest free, complete and up-to-date world-wide travel guide.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects.
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 24 (2019/08/24 03:00)
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Sandkrugbrücke is a bridge in Berlin-Moabit. The light trail under the bridge comes from a ship passing by during the exposure. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 23 (2019/08/23 03:00)
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Khotyn Fortress under the light of the full moon. Ukraine - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 21 (2019/08/21 03:00)
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Aerial view of the Vasilyevskaya Curtain, Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Military Archive, both on Zayachy Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 20 (2019/08/20 03:00)
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Common broom (Cytisus scoparius) flowers around a rock in the Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park, France. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 19 (2019/08/19 03:00)
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Koppie foam grasshopper (Dictyophorus spumans spumans) nymph, Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, Roodepoort, South Africa - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 18 (2019/08/18 03:00)
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Ceiling of the Church of the Society of Jesus (La Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús), a Jesuit church in Quito, Ecuador. The exterior doesn't give an idea of the beauty of the interior, with a large central nave, which is profusely decorated with gold leaf, gilded plaster and wood carvings, making of it the most ornate church in Quito. The temple is one of the most significant works of Spanish Baroque architecture in America and considered the most beautiful church in Ecuador. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 17 (2019/08/17 03:00)
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 16 (2019/08/16 03:00)
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Craigdarroch Castle just after sunset - view from the west, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 15 (2019/08/15 03:00)
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Dormition of the Virgin at the Bäckeraltar (altar of the bakers), St. Stephen's parish church, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria. Anonymous master, around 1490.
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Wikidata
Wikidata aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. The data available in Wikidata is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 License to allow third-party users to freely reuse the data available, unlike other Wikimedia projects.
MediaWiki
The MediaWiki open source community maintains several software projects.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a project used as a central hub for various coordination and organization tasks, such as discussions affecting multiple wikis or planning upcoming events.
Wikimedia Incubator
The Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki used for developing new wikis.
Wikimedia Labs
Wikimedia Labs 2) is a project aimed to help volunteers get involved in Wikimedia operations and software development, and to make it easier for system administrators and developers to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki.