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The Picture of the Day of Wednesday 18 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: European ground squirrel.

Credits: Charles J. Sharp.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 17 2026 February 19 > Picture of the day The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), also known as the European souslik, is a species in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. Like all squirrels, it is a member of the order of rodents, and it is found in central and southeastern Europe, with its range divided into two parts by the Carpathian Mountains. It is a colonial animal and mainly diurnal. The European ground squirrel excavates a branching system of tunnels up to 2 metres (6 ft) deep, with several entrances. This requires a habitat of short turf, such as on steppes, pasture, dry banks, sports fields, parks and lawns. Its short, dense fur is yellowish grey, tinged with red, with a few indistinct pale and dark spots on the back. Adults typically measure 20 to 23 centimetres (8 to 9 in) with a weight of 240 to 340 grams (8.5 to 12.0 oz). It has a slender build with a short, bushy tail, and makes a shrill alarm call that causes all other individuals in the vicinity to dive for cover. This European ground squirrel was photographed in Obrovisko Family Park, near Muráň, Type: slovakia.photograph. Credits: : Charles J. Sharp.
February 18, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Tuesday 17 February 2026 were:

1. Robert Duvall: 1.145.146 times
2. Jesse Jackson: 825.548 times
3. Elana Meyers Taylor: 422.809 times
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February 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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The Featured Article of Wednesday 18 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Ælfwynn, wife of Æthelstan Half-King.

Ælfwynn or Ælfwyn was a member of a wealthy Anglo-Saxon family in Huntingdonshire who married Æthelstan Half-King, the powerful ealdorman of East Anglia, in about 932.
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February 18, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Tuesday 17 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Mao Gong ding.

Credits: National Palace Museum.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 16 2026 February 18 > Picture of the day The Mao Gong ding is a ceremonial bronze vessel (ding) produced c. 805 BC in Western Zhou–era China. It was presented to King Xuan of Zhou by his vassal, the gong (duke) Yin of Mao. The Mao Gong ding was discovered in Shaanxi in 1843 and is currently in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Type: taiwan.photograph. Credits: : National Palace Museum.
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Monday 16 February 2026 were:

1. Robert Duvall: 1.675.134 times
2. Luciana Pedraza: 323.613 times
3. Jeffrey Epstein: 258.908 times
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February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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The Featured Article of Tuesday 17 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: USS Romeo.

USS Romeo was a sternwheel steamer that saw service as a tinclad warship during the American Civil War.
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February 17, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Monday 16 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Gangabal Lake.

Credits: UnpetitproleX.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 15 2026 February 17 > Picture of the day Gangabal Lake is a high-altitude glacial lake situated at the foot of Harmukh, a mountain in the Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The lake is called Gangabal, meaning 'place of Ganga' in the Kashmiri language, and is considered to be sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva. The lake has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata, the Nilamata Purana and the Vishnu Smriti, and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from the nearby 8th-century Wangath temple complex. Kashmiri Hindus perform their ancestral rites at the lake and immerse the ashes of the dead into the lake after cremation. This photograph depicts a shrine dedicated to Shiva carved into a boulder at the shore of Gangabal Type: lake.photograph. Credits: : UnpetitproleX.
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Sunday 15 February 2026 were:

1. Jeffrey Epstein: 290.544 times
2. Wuthering Heights: 287.720 times
3. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: 233.806 times
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February 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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The Featured Article of Monday 16 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
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February 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Sunday 15 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: The Young Companion.

Credits: Hujiang Photo Studio; retouched by Chris Woodrich.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 14 2026 February 16 > Picture of the day The Young Companion, known as Liángyǒu in Chinese, was a pictorial magazine with captions in both Chinese and English, published in Shanghai, China, between 1926 and 1945. It is regarded as one of the most influential large-scale comprehensive Asian pictorials in the 1920s, and has proven useful to historians in modern times in examining the glamorous side of colonial-era Shanghai. It ran for 174 issues, including two special issues not given monthly issue numbers – the "Sun Yat-sen Memorial Special" and the "Eighth Anniversary". This is the cover of the first issue of The Young Companion, dated 15 February 1926, and featuring a photograph of the Chinese actress Hu Type: die.cover. Credits: : Hujiang Photo Studio; retouched by Chris Woodrich.
February 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Saturday 14 February 2026 were:

1. Ilia Malinin: 467.737 times
2. Valentine's Day: 355.567 times
3. Jeffrey Epstein: 313.517 times
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February 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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The Featured Article of Sunday 15 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Brass threepence.

The brass threepence, or "threepenny bit", was a twelve-sided British coin equivalent to 1⁄80 of a pound.
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February 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Saturday 14 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Abigail Scott Duniway.

Credits: The Oregonian; restored by Adam Cuerden.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 13 2026 February 15 > Picture of the day Abigail Scott Duniway (1834–1915) was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women in the United States. In 1871, she founded The New Northwest, a weekly newspaper devoted to women's rights, including women's suffrage. In 1912, Oregon became the seventh state in the U.S. to pass an amendment on women's suffrage. Governor Oswald West asked her to write and sign the proclamation on equal suffrage and, on February 14, 1913, she was the first woman to register to vote in Multnomah County. This photograph shows Duniway signing the precinct voter-registration book, with John B. Coffey, the Multnomah County clerk, standing next to her. The photograph was published in the February 15 issue of The Type: oregonian.photograph. Credits: : The Oregonian; restored by Adam Cuerden.
February 14, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Friday 13 February 2026 were:

1. James Van Der Beek: 597.428 times
2. Jeffrey Epstein: 376.520 times
3. Ilia Malinin: 360.556 times
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February 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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The Featured Article of Saturday 14 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: James Cook.

Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779.
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February 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Friday 13 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Yellow warbler.

Credits: Rhododendrites.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 12 2026 February 14 > Picture of the day The yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a species of bird in the New World warbler family, Parulidae. It is the most widespread species in the diverse genus Setophaga, breeding in almost the whole of North America, the Caribbean, as well as northern South America. It has 35 subspecies, residing in various different habitats. Depending on the subspecies, the yellow warbler may be between 10 and 18 centimetres (3.9 and 7.1 in) long, with a wingspan from 16 to 22 centimetres (6.3 to 8.7 in). It weighs 7 to 25 grams (0.2–0.9 oz). In winter, female and immature birds all have similarly greenish-yellow uppersides and are a duller yellow below, while males acquire breast and sometimes head coloration. This yellow warbler was photographed in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City, United Type: states.photograph. Credits: : Rhododendrites.
February 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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The Featured Article of Friday 13 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis.

In archaeology, the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis is a prediction about the relationship between a society's funerary practices and its social organization.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Thursday 12 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Credits: Joseph Kreutzinger.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 11 2026 February 13 > Picture of the day Francis II (12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, and served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815. Francis was born in Florence as the eldest son of future Emperor Leopold II and Maria Luisa of Spain. Leopold became Holy Roman Emperor in 1790 but died two years later, and Francis succeeded him. The Holy Roman Empire immediately became embroiled in the French Revolutionary Wars, the first of which ended in Austrian defeat and the loss of the left bank of the Rhine to France. In 1806, after Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine, Francis abdicated as Holy Roman Emperor, which in effect marked the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1813, Francis turned against Napoleon and finally defeated him in the War of the Sixth Coalition, forcing him to abdicate. Francis died in 1835 at the age of 67 and was succeeded by his son, Ferdinand I. This oil portrait on canvas, painted in 1815 by Joseph Kreutzinger, depicts Francis wearing Austrian military uniform with the insignia of various orders. The painting hangs in the Neue Galerie of the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Type: austria.painting. Credits: : Joseph Kreutzinger.
February 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Wednesday 11 February 2026 were:

1. James Van Der Beek: 1.884.041 times
2. Jeffrey Epstein: 505.448 times
3. Epstein files: 396.036 times
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February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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The Featured Article of Thursday 12 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Black American Sign Language.

Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf Black Americans in the United States.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Wednesday 11 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Ilulissat.

Credits: Ekrem Canli.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 10 2026 February 12 > Picture of the day Ilulissat is the municipal seat and largest town of the municipality of Avannaata in western Greenland. It is located on the eastern shore of Disko Bay, just north of the Ilulissat Icefjord World Heritage Site, and approximately 350 km (220 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. With a population of 5,149 as of 2025, it is the third-largest city in Greenland, after Nuuk and Sisimiut. The area around the town was inhabited by Inuit peoples from prehistoric times, with evidence of Saqqaq and Dorset settlements. Dutch whalers traded extensively with the local population from the 17th century and referred to the area as Maklykout. Ilulissat was later established as a trading post by Jacob Severin's company in 1741, and was named in his honor after the Battle of Jacobshavn, in which Danish forces defeated the Dutch whalers. The town was the site of the Arctic Ocean Conference in 2008, in which representatives from Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States met to discuss territorial claims in the Arctic. This 2024 photograph shows a panorama of Ilulissat taken from the south Type: west.photograph. Credits: : Ekrem Canli.
February 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Tuesday 10 February 2026 were:

1. Bad Bunny: 597.132 times
2. Jeffrey Epstein: 581.154 times
3. Epstein files: 448.742 times
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February 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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The Featured Article of Wednesday 11 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Adolfo Farsari.

Adolfo Farsari was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan.
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February 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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The Picture of the Day of Tuesday 10 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Sabellastarte spectabilis.

Credits: Diego Delso.
Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 9 2026 February 11 > Picture of the day Sabellastarte spectabilis, commonly known as the feather duster worm or the fan worm, is a species of benthic marine polychaete worm in the family Sabellidae. It is native to tropical waters of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea but has spread to other parts of the world. It is a filter feeder and inhabits holes and cracks in reefs, rocky shores, coral and lava, under boulders in still water, and in tidal pools and channels exposed to heavy surf. S. spectabilis is buff in colour with purple specks, around 8 centimetres (3 inches) in length and up to 1.2 centimetres (0.5 inches) in width. It lives in a tough, leathery tube covered with fine mud, from which projects a branchial crown of branched tentacles. The worm is popular in aquariums because of its distinctive appearance and its ability to remove organic particles and improve water quality. This S. spectabilis worm was photographed in the diving resort of Anilao in Mabini, Batangas, in the Type: philippines.photograph. Credits: : Diego Delso.
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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The top 3 most viewed @wikipedia.org articles on Monday 9 February 2026 were:

1. Bad Bunny: 1.878.321 times
2. List of Super Bowl halftime shows: 822.336 times
3. Jeffrey Epstein: 620.191 times
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February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM