Ah, okay, that's alright then!! I retract my statement :)
Joe
On 2 November 2015 at 17:51, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Joe,
Yes it is cited.
Linguist Leo Rosten wrote in "The Joys of Yiddish" about the first known mention of the Polish word bajgiel derived from the Yiddish word bagel in the "Community Regulations" of the city of Kraków in 1610, which stated that the item was given as a gift to women in childbirth.[7]
It's just not cited on the first reference.
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
I see that the bagel social is out already, but the fact in the Wikipedia article isn't actually cited to anything... We should probably be careful to make sure the stuff we're tweeting is verifiable.
The k.d. lang fact is also uncited in the Wikipedia article. How about:
Hapy birthday, singer k.d. lang. Did you know she once re-enacted a seven hour heart transplant as a performance-art piece?
Joe
On 2 November 2015 at 05:58, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Happy birthday, singer k.d. lang. Did you know? Her first band was a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.d._lang
The first known mention of the bagel was in 1610 in Kraków, Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel
Born this day in 1755, Marie Antoinette, who never said of starving French revolutionaries "let them eat cake." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette
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