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Opinions about whether to post this U.S. Navy photo of the Pearl Harbor attack? (Those are anti-aircraft explosions in the sky.) Could tweet from Wikimedia Commons and RT from @wikipedia.



Jeff Elder
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks Joe! Will add!

Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Remember of course Pearl Harbor was on this day in 1941. Might be worth something like:

On this day in 1941, Japan made a now infamous surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

Intended to prevent US interference into Japan's war in Southeast Asia, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 instead drew America into World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

On 7 December 2015 at 16:32, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Likewise LGTM :)

On 7 December 2015 at 01:15, Gregory Varnum <greg.varnum@gmail.com> wrote:
LGTM - really any excuse to share Tom Waits quotes is fine by me. ;)

-greg

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On Dec 6, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Twitter:

On this day in 1963, “instant replay” made its TV debut during an American Army-Navy football game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_replay


Facebook:

On this day in 1972, as the Apollo 17 moon mission was launched, the crew took the photograph known as The Blue Marble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble


Twitter:

On this day in 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts took the photo known as The Blue Marble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble PHOTO


Twitter:

Computer scientist Manal al-Sharif helped start a women's right-to-drive campaign in 2011 in Saudi Arabia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_al-Sharif


Facebook:

Computer scientist Manal al-Sharif helped start a women's right-to-drive campaign in 2011 in Saudi Arabia, the only nation in the world where women are not allowed to drive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_al-Sharif


Twitter:

"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." - Singer-songwriter Tom Waits, born this day in 1949. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Waits


Twitter (@wikimedia):

Israel’s Tel Aviv University now offers a course called “Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge.” https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/03/tel-aviv-new-wikipedia-course/


Twitter and Facebook:

Wikipedians around the world are working together to update articles on terrorist attacks in real-time. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/04/wikipedia-editors-cover-terror/


Twitter:

Born this day in 1956, American basketball player Larry Bird, 12-time NBA All-Star and 3-time league MVP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bird



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