*Milestone for Arabic Wikipedia*

Arabic Wikipedia surpassed 1 million articles. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9

*Wikimedia Technical Conference reports*

- Daily reports by User:DTankersley (WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)

- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-November/092746.html - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-November/092748.html - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-November/092755.html - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-November/092765.html

- Math report by User:physikerwelt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Physikerwelt

- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-November/092771.html

*English Wikiquote of the day for 10 November 2019*

"All writers … have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were — to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all." — Science fiction and fantasy author Neil Gaiman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman of England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England

*Recent featured media on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons*

* Image 1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WInd_Rose_Aguiar.svg: Replica of a compass rose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_rose from a chart of Portuguese cartographer Jorge de Aguiar https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18397388 that was made in the year 1492 * Image 2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Lovers_Beneath_an_Umbrella_in_the_Snow.jpg: *Two Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow*, by Suzuki Harunobu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Harunobu, color woodblock print in the Ukiyo-e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e style, circa 1767 * Image 3 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Baths_in_Bath_Spa,_England_-_July_2006.jpg: The Roman Baths (*Thermae* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae) of Bath Spa, England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Baths_(Bath). Buildings on the site have been created and modified several times from circa 60–70 A.D. onward. * Image 4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Hippopotamus_MET_DP248993.jpg: Hippopotamus statuette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Faience_Hippopotamus from circa 1961–1878 B.C., during the reigns of Senwosret I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senwosret_I to Senwosret II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senwosret_II, in Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt. (Credit to the authors of this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Faience_Hippopotamus for the description of the statuette which is the basis for the following text, which I adapted from their original; I presume that the text is licensed according to Wikipedia's normal text license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License): "According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art *Bulletin*... this statuette is a "particularly fine example of a type found... among the funerary furnishings of tombs of the Middle Kingdom" and also an exemplary piece of Egyptian faience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_faience." * Image 5 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baha%27i_Temple_--_Wilmette_,_IL_--_Drone_Video_(DJI_Spark).webm: Video taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_House_of_Worship_(Wilmette,_Illinois) * Image 6 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HR_8799_Orbiting_Exoplanets.gif: Arabic description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language: العربية: أربع مشتريات هائلة تدور حول النجم HR 8799 (في المنتصف) خِلال فترةٍ زمنيَّةٍ تتراوح بين عُقُودٍ إلى قُرُونٍ. استُخدمت تقنيَّة إقحام الحركة على 7 صُور لِلنجم HR 8799 المُلتقة بِواسطة مقراب كك على مدار 7 سنوات في سبيل صنع هذه الصُورة.‎. English description: HR 8799 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799 harbors four super-Jupiters orbiting with periods that range from decades to centuries. Motion interpolate was used on 7 images of HR 8799 taken from the Keck Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keck_Telescope over 7 years to create this image. (Arabic description provided by User:باسم https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85; English description provided by User:Hunster https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Huntster; text licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.)

Closing comments

* Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Thanks to User:Haytham abulela https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Haytham_abulela for the Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language translation.

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