A bunch of @wikipedia.org editors (inc. me) ensured that for this #TDOR the #didyouknow section in the English version was filled with stories of trans people.

Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...

I forgot one did not know Zohran was knocking off the Gormenghast font

Also, who knows what this note to self from 3 hours ago means? 💪🏻

Prettyyyyy excited to be Highly Commended in this year's awards 💖 especially since the projects of all the winner are actually incredible *swoon*

TikTok has discovered the magic cross piercing & it's had a big impact on the Wikipedia article - it's currently in the top 5 visited English articles
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdk2jDM9/

Featured Articles are those on @wiki-potd.bsky.social that are deemed the highest quality & today an article I started on the Fijian tattoo practice of veiqia is one!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiqia
Many thanks to the dozen or so editors who peer reviewed the article as part of its nomination ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

There's also a whole movement to get bins in mens toilets, as increasing numbers of cisgender men are saying they require them for incontinence pads - the language is interesting - these are clearly sanitary bins but them have a description that could also be from a lynx deodorant: DESIGNED FOR MEN

There are bins with braille

But there are differences in the 'modesty flap' at the top & in the orientation of how you put the pads/tampons in

It's also curiosity, like with any object, once you start looking, there is so much to see!

To my knowledge, there's no typology of sanitary bins, but there are many differences (although the basic model hasn't changed much) - flip up lid, pedal, rectangular shape

Until a few weeks ago there was no article for sanitary bins on Wikipedia ... But there is now & today it's one of the facts on Wikipedia's front page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitar...

One for the niche #Wikidata X #Olfaction crew - one of the suggestions at last years Wikimania was to see how books that feature smell could be modelled ... Adelle Stripes memoir (which is also brilliant) is a good candidate to try this out with
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132719...

New one-day conference call-out dropping 👇🏻

Bespoke, Open, Creative & Collaborative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD) is running a one day in person conference on 27 March 2025 in Leeds

Think 💬 backlog documentation, community voices 💬 call for contributions 👉🏻
lnkd.in/eKsXxJfK

Perfect Ethiopian coffee in #Leeds this morning!

1st sunset of 2025 with a day well spent walking and exploring - here's to many more such days

Just making sure @historylauren.bsky.social is front & centre in a local bookshop!