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Wikipedia has 40 million articles. Here are five microblogs that will help you find the most interesting ones
The Russian Wikipedia turned 16 on May 11. During this time, users of the project have written almost 1.4 million articles (in total, there are more than 40 million of them in the Internet encyclopedia). It's very easy to get stuck on Wikipedia, jumping from one interesting article to another. But where to start? Meduza has collected five Twitter accounts that offer readers interesting articles, handpicked or automatically selected.
"Once in Wikipedia"
An account that manually selects unusual facts or interesting Wikipedia articles. Sometimes everything is done for the sake of a remarkable picture.
"Wikitrends"
An automatic account that monitors traffic on Russian Wikipedia pages. If users' interest in an article rises sharply, a link to it appears in Wikitrends.
"Gospravki"
Another automatic account. He monitors edits to Wikipedia articles that were made from government-owned IP addresses. And gives links to a page where you can see what exactly has been changed.
Wikipedia
The official English-language Wikipedia account often shares interesting facts from its own articles. It also celebrates celebrity birthdays and movie release dates.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another English-language account, this time without links to Wikipedia. It publishes full texts of articles that fit in 140 characters. Yes, there are some too!
Announcement photo: Eibner / Scanpix / LETA