*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. * What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )