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Wikimedia Common Picture of the Day:

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_day

WikiProject: Todays Article for Improvement:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TAFI

English Wiktionary Word of the Day:

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/Archive

English Wikisource

• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

English Wikivoyage

• https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page

Public Domain Images

• LadyofHats on Commons
• To search for featured PD images on Commons, click the "Featured pictures" button on the top right of Category:Public domain

Wikipedia article

Here are some useful links for content planning!

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries
• On This Day (NYT): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/
• Tech: http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia
• Beutler Ink: Wikipedia in 60 Seconds
• Wikipedia Month article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONTH
• Wikipedia Day article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONTH_DAY
• Selected anniversaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/MONTH
• Edit source of individual days and look at eligible section.
• Wikimedia milestones: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News
• Wikisource anniversaries: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Anniversaries

We are looking for your favorite Wikipedia articles or information to feature on our Social media accounts. Please edit the Calendar page with your suggested Social promotion:

Format

• Date to share | Article name and link | Copy for social media | Channel to share on (Facebook, Twitter, etc)

Links to interesting topics

List of unusual articles

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

"Silly things"

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Silly_Things

English Wikipedia home page:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Lists of historical anniversaries (On This Day)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries

What's the most interesting thing you learned on Wikipedia? - FB post

• https://www.facebook.com/33138223345/posts/10151468925648346

Wikipedia records, including things like the longest article names and most vandalized articles

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_records

A list of awesome articles on the English Wikipedia, from SLaporte.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slaporte/Awesome

50 most interesting articles list.

• http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-50-most-interesting-articles-on-wikipedia/

10 Weirdest articles list

• http://www.refinery29.com/weirdest-wikipedia-entries

List of common misconceptions

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Wikipedia Haikus

• encourage FB followers to write/share a WP Haiku - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Haiku_about_Wikipedia_policy

Signpost articles dealing with plagiarism of Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-07-09/Japanese_plagiarism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-01-08/Press_plagiarism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-11-19/Khobar_plagiarism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-01-02/Reporter_plagiarizes_Wikipedia

April fools "pranks", especially those that relate to the Main Page

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:April_fools

Making an airplane from a car- Gabriel Nderitu -

• http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/26/kenyan-man-builds-airplane-in-yard-based-mostly-on-wikipedia-entries/

and he's still testing :)

• http://www.youtube.com/user/gnm7544

Most vandalized pages

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_vandalized_pages

Entertaining errors:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

Page Views:

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/

Wikipedians with articles:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles

Wearable computers

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computers

Lists of articles that need work

• Royal Society members without Wikipedia pages

Most popular articles

Wikipedia top 25 articles by traffic

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top25Report

Previous 7 days on en.wp

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_5000_pages

Visuals

• Wikistream

http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/

• Wikipulse

http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/

• Wikipedia Live Monitor

http://wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com/

• Linkypedia

http://linkypedia.info/

• Wikidata bots stats

http://inkdroid.org/wikidata-bots/

• Wikitweets

http://wikitweets.herokuapp.com/

• Hatnote: Listen to Wikipedia

http://listen.hatnote.com/