Social media/Article of the Week
Every Friday, the Communications department shares the “Article of the Week” on Wikipedia’s social media channels.
The Article of the Week is selected based on relevancy and its timeliness to current global events and conversations. Its objective is to connect Wikipedia content to current events, thereby engaging readers and diverse groups, and bringing in new social media followers. It does not replace or replicate “Today's featured article.”
The Communications department shares the selected Article of the Week in advance on this page for awareness. We do our best to share the article at least 12 hours in advance.
If you would like to make a suggestion for an upcoming Article of the Week, please send an email to talktocomms@wikimedia.org or write directly in the talk page. Please submit articles from any language. We cannot promise that we will post everything that is submitted, but we will do our best to respond to each submission.
This week
editConsidered a precursor to modern Halloween, Samhain is a Celtic festival believed to be a time when the boundary between the physical world and the spirit world blurs, allowing the souls of the dead to return to Earth. It is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November.
Past articles
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edit| 31 December 2021 | Hogmanay |
| 24 December 2021 | Snowflake |
| 17 December 2021 | Multiverse |
| 10 December 2021 | Same-sex marriage in Chile |
| 3 December 2021 | Barbados |
| 26 November 2021 | Totem pole |
| 19 November 2021 | Little Amal |
| 12 November 2021 | Benin Bronzes |
| 5 November 2021 | Vanessa Nakate |
| 29 October 2021 | Vampire |
| 22 October 2021 | Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba |
| 15 October 2021 | Jellyfish Lake |
| 8 October 2021 | Coral reef |
| 1 October 2021 | Akyaaba Addai-Sebo |
| 24 September 2021 | Khoekhoe language |
| 17 September 2021 | Dolores Huerta |
| 10 September 2021 | United Airlines Flight 93 |
| 3 September 2021 | National Covid Memorial Wall |
| 27 August 2021 | The Famous Five (Canada) |
| 20 August 2021 | Zarifa Ghafari |
| 13 August 2021 | Wikimania |
| 6 August 2021 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| 30 July 2021 | Frenemy |
| 23 July 2021 | 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 16 July 2021 | The Catcher in the Rye |
| 9 July 2021 | Extreme ironing |
| 2 July 2021 | Emoji |
| 25 June 2021 | Tour de France |
| 18 June 2021 | Juneteenth |
| 11 June 2021 | Cicada |
| 4 June 2021 | Beverley Palesa Ditsie |
| 28 May 2021 | Simone Biles |
| 21 May 2021 | Eurovision Song Contest |
| 14 May 2021 | Panic buying |
| 7 May 2021 | Internment of Japanese Americans |
| 30 April 2021 | Ramadan |
| 23 April 2021 | Hank Aaron |
| 16 April 2021 | Harriet Quimby |
| 9 April 2021 | Marian Anderson |
| 2 April 2021 | Nawal El Saadawi |
| 26 March 2021 | 2021 Suez Canal obstruction |
| 19 March 2021 | Enheduanna |
| 12 March 2021 | Meghan, Duchess of Sussex |
| 5 March 2021 | 2021 Myanmar protests |
| 26 February 2021 | Sojourner Truth |
| 19 February 2021 | Baseball color line |
| 12 February 2021 | Lunisolar calendar |
| 5 February 2021 | Greenwood District, Tulsa |
| 29 January 2021 | The Raven |
| 22 January 2021 | Kamala Harris |
| 15 January 2021 | Wikipedia |
| 8 January 2021 | Falkirk Wheel |
| 1 January 2021 | The Great Gatsby |
2020
edit| 25 December 2020 | Gävle goat |
| 18 December 2020 | Tristan da Cunha |
| 11 December 2020 | Mount Everest |
| 4 December 2020 | Utah monolith |
| 27 November 2020 | Zitkala-Sa |
| 20 November 2020 | Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten |
| 13 November 2020 | Friday the 13th |
| 6 November 2020 | United States Electoral College |
| 30 October 2020 | Día de Muertos |
| 23 October 2020 | Mole (unit) |
| 16 October 2020 | CRISPR gene editing |
| 9 October 2020 | The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) |
| 2 October 2020 | Oktoberfest |
| 25 September 2020 | København (ship) |
| 18 September 2020 | Gender pay gap |
| 11 September 2020 | National September 11 Memorial & Museum |
| 4 September 2020 | 2020 Beirut explosion |
| 28 August 2020 | I Have a Dream |
| 21 August 2020 | ഓണം (Onam) |
| 14 August 2020 | Kölner Dom |
| 7 August 2020 | Alice Huyler Ramsey |
| 31 July 2020 | Premchand |
| 24 July 2020 | مسبار_الأمل (Emirates Mars Mission, Arabic Wikipedia) |
| 17 July 2020 | 森林浴 (Forest bath, Japanese Wikipedia) |
| 10 July 2020 | Gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 3 July 2020 | What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? |