#wikipedia SVG of the week eternity: English Unit Lengths:
MARVEL AT OUR CULTURE
Edit: more information about Ramsden’s Chains and Gunter’s chains on ramsden.info, “the gateway to all things Ramsden”
Edits! Iceland-specific info about Ells 
and hand measurement diagram 
- Shaftment (palm and extended thumb) about 2 palms or 6 inches
- Hand (In English, a “Hand” or “Handbreadth” is commonly used to represent the width of the palm, sometimes including the thumb when closed against the palm.) about 4 inches
- Palm (In English, a "Palm" is commonly used to represent four fingers held together, which is slightly less than the true width of the palm at the knuckles.) about 3 inches or 4 fingers
- Span (from little finger tip to thumb tip) about 3 palms, 9 inches or 12 fingers
- Finger (or fingerbreadth) about 3/4 inch or 1/16 foot
- Digit (In English, “digit” and “finger” are used to represent the width of a finger. However, the value of the digit is slightly less than the value of the finger.)
- Thumb (not indicated) about 1 inch or 1/12 foot
#wikipedia article of the week: Coloured hat
#wikipedia article of the week: List of nontraditional bagpipe usage
#wikipedia article of the week: Timeline of the Far Future
Wow. The #wikipedia page for Sesame Street is one of the best organised I’ve ever seen. Unsure how to feel about this.
#wikipedia article of the week: Garlic “Garlic has been regarded as a force for both good and evil.”
#wikipedia article of the week: The Yule Goat #goats #bookmark
These #wikipedia visual timelines of composers are quite beautiful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers_by_era. I’d love to make a continuous, richer one with sheet music, instruments, other relevant events, portraits, composers identified by country
It’s not often I come across a cringeworthy wikipedia article, but Educational Technology is particularly bad
Wikipedia article of the week: List of Cheeses
#wikipedia article of the week: List of fictional railway stations
#wikipedia article of the week: List of Breads
Wikipedia article of the day: Pope Hilarius
Wikipedia article of the week: List of Sandwiches
Faviki.com looks like an interesting take on tagging — the advantage being that everyone shares the same tags, the problem being that everyone shares the same tags.
I had no idea the wikimedia foundation acts as a sort of proxy to local emergency services: Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm #bookmark /via Tom Morris
Time to play “guess the Wikipedia article”. Where did this come from?
…blow-up dolls, kickboxing dummies, cardboard cut-outs, and balloons with faces drawn on them.
No googling!
My new business: “The #Apprentice” candidates pay me to look stuff up on #wikipedia, a skill they apparently lack.
#wikipedia article of the week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googly_eyes