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On the bright side

For what are you grateful for this month?

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'.
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Week of 7 June 2020

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Week of 14 June 2020

The text below was written by User:Cwmhiraeth, User:Coffeeandcrumbs, and User:Ravenpuff.

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, she escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her original name was Isabella Baumfree; she changed her name to Sojourner Truth when she became a Methodist on Pentecost Sunday, 1843. She chose this name because she heard the Spirit of God calling on her to preach the truth, telling her friends: "The Spirit calls me, and I must go", and left to make her way through the land, preaching about the abolition of slavery. During the Civil War, she helped recruit black troops for the 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

Gallery of images from the Seattle Japanese Garden

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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. DTM (talk) 04:10, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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