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.Jeff ElderDigital communications managerWikimedia FoundationOn 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?JoeOn 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._langThe first known mention of the bagel was in 1610 in Kraków, Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagelBorn this day in 1755, Marie Antoinette, who never said of starving French revolutionaries "let them eat cake." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_AntoinetteJeff ElderDigital communications managerWikimedia Foundation
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