Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-06-28/On the bright side
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For what are you grateful this month?
Week of 31 May 2020
A reminder to be patient with new users.
Wikipedia is like 'find a car, you don't need a license, and try driving without crashing. And oh, here's a highway code that you can try to read while driving'.
— mynameisnotdave via meta:IRC/Quotes
Week of 7 June 2020: an interview regarding the Wikimedia Commons App for Android with maintainer Misaochan
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Week of 14 June 2020
The text below was written by User:Cwmhiraeth, User:Coffeeandcrumbs, and User:Ravenpuff.
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, she escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her original name was Isabella Baumfree; she changed her name to Sojourner Truth when she became a Methodist on Pentecost Sunday, 1843. She chose this name because she heard the Spirit of God calling on her to preach the truth, telling her friends: "The Spirit calls me, and I must go", and left to make her way through the land, preaching about the abolition of slavery. During the Civil War, she helped recruit black troops for the Union Army, and after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
This photograph of Truth was taken around 1870, accompanied by the caption "I sell the shadow to support the substance", emphasizing her financial acumen. The image is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Photograph credit: Randall Studio; restored by Coffeeandcrumbs
Week of 21 June 2020
Gallery of images from the Seattle Japanese Garden
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