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Dividers[edit]

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Pranks[edit]

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Uh oh guys GUYS it's BLOCKING the AfD canal! Lets see if we can get it out before April Fools' Day is over

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Wikimedia DYK[edit]

... that Anne Wyllie, also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was?
... that deleted articles on Wikipedia may be "salted" so that they cannot be recreated?
... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time?
... that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site?
... that chess on a really big board, Nuclear Gandhi, and a list of sexually active popes can all be found in the Depths of Wikipedia?
... that Wikipedia editors wrote over 40,000 words arguing over a single letter?
... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo's school, Children International, Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation?
... that in the browser game Neurocracy, players explore a fictional successor to Wikipedia launched in 2049?
... that in 2020, COVID-19–related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews?
... that the first Wikipedia edit was made on 15 January 2001?

Food & drink DYK[edit]

... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
... that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping?
... that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?
... that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?
... that the New York Savings Bank Building later became "The Grand Palais of Rugs" and the "Temple of Food"?
... that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
... that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan?
... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
... that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
... that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata?
... that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?

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