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Kevin Payravi
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he/him. Software developer and #Wikimedian. I like #FOSS, wikis, & knowledge equity.

Find me as SuperHamster across wikis 🐹

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I guess there was an attorney somewhere at some point.
A screenshot from the Epstein files released on December 19, 2025, showing a post-it note with multiple words blacked out. Only the word "attorney" is visible.
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Website was getting slammed by a shitty AI scraper, and I found this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)

Makes me want to scream, but I also appreciate how upfront it is.
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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On a flight from Helsinki to JFK and noticed the northern lights while north of Iceland (first time seeing them!). Took my camera out and I'm quite happy with this 2.5 seconds hand-held exposure. ✈️🌌
Looking out the left side of a passenger aircraft. The wing is visible with the Finnair logo at the top. Above is the night sky with Aurora borealis, with horizontal streaks of green light and purple hues going across the sky.
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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New CEO of Wikimedia Foundation announced :wikipedia:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/09/welcoming-the-wikimedia-foundations-new-ceo/

"The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will officially join on January […]
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December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I know it's just a terabyte but, incredible to me that this is all for free.
An email from Cloudflare that says: Your 2025 Cloudflare Year in Review. Here is how we improved security and performance for your 23 domains this last year. Total Bandwidth: 1.3 TB Total Bandwidth Total Requests: 57,386,059 Cached Bandwidth: 1.1 TB Bandwidth Saved: 87.9% Threats Mitigated: 5,036 Requests Mitigated as Threats: 0.01%
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Great things happening in Ohio :ohio_flag:
A Facebook Marketplace listing for a homemade mobile picnic table built onto a stretched John Deere riding mower frame. The listing text says, "Mobile picnic table" for $1,750 in Medina, Ohio, with a description noting a 22-horsepower Briggs & Stratton engine, working headlights, and spare belts.
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Reposted by Kevin Payravi
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Going to the moon was awe-inspiring! Flying a helicopter on Mars, mind-blowing!

But apart from the eradication of smallpox, I honestly believe #wikipedia might be the greatest achievement by human kind!

The collaborative effort of millions of people, spending countless hours to gather […]
Original post on tutoteket.no
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November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in January, and our amazing creative teams in the Wikimedia Foundation put together this video that I love.

Fun fact! There are something like 500 attributions for images, sounds, and text in the video 🤯 […]

[Original post on wikimedia.social]
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Loving the new #wikipedia 25th anniversary video, from the Wikimedia Foundation :wikipedia:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP25_Anthem_video.webm
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Jimmy Wales doing an AMA on Reddit, if anyone wants to see his answers or ask any questions :wikipedia:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1oiekcc/im_jimmy_wales_founder_of_wikipedia_and_author_of/
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I keep getting this targeted ad on Meta platforms, and I appreciate that my habits have somehow tricked them into thinking I'm a woman (wrong) in California (wrong) who has been incarcerated (wrong).
An ad that says, "Were you sexually abused at a California Women Prison? Check for settlement"
October 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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"Nothing unifies people like a factoid"
October 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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It's an Enya kind of day
September 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The juxtaposition in the "Read more" section below a New York Times article about Jimmy Kimmel's show being pulled.
A screenshot of two article titles. The first is, "Washginton Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting". The second is, "Fox Host Apologizes for Suggesting Lethal Injections for Mentally Ill Homeless People".
September 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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All those years of FarmVille ended up being worth $34.28 🤑
Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrator has sent you $34.28 USD.
September 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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#wikipedia friends and game developers around NYC! :wikipedia: We're hosting a WikiGameJam in Brooklyn, October 3-5. This will be a hackathon for brainstorming and building cool wiki-themed games. 👾

https://wikigamejam.org/
WikiGameJam 2025 at Hex House, Oct 3 to 5
September 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I'm Toad I guess
A Whatsapp chat in which I sent a picture of Toad, the Nintendo character who looks like a little mushroom kid. The response is "he looks like you! same vibe"
September 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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learning
Metadata about an edit to the Wikipedia article on M&M's. A user, Gystaph, edited the article on October 21, 2019, with the edit summary "We added a fun fact about m&m's" The diff of the edit to the M&M's Wikipedia article. The user added the text, "Fun fact Eminem the rapper is actually 166 m&m's tall"
September 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I look like one of those business types on planes with my laptop out before takeoff, furiously making deals. Except I'm just selling stamps on Neopets.
A screenshot from Fergie's "Glamorous" music video, showing Fergie walking on an airport tarmac, carrying a bag towards her private jet.
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Back in 2009, I wrote one of my earliest Wikipedia articles on Mandazi, a form of fried bread from Eastern Africa. Now that I'm in Kenya for #wikimania, I finally got to try it for the first time!
A photo of Kevin Payravi holding a Mandazi in one hand, and a phone displaying the Wikipedia article about Mandazi in the other.
August 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Fellow Wikimedians at London Heathrow, en route to Nairobi for #wikimania ! :wikipedia:
A group of six Wikimedians in an airport terminal, posing and smiling for the photo
August 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Plane parked at the gate and not a single person jumped out of their seat to grab their bag. Felt like I was in the Twilight Zone.
August 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I have reached 200,000 unread emails 🎉
June 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Absolutely in love with Wikimedia LGBT+'s new Barba mascot art for Wiki Loves Pride 2025.

Art by Ana Clara Nicola (User:TitiNicola), CC BY-SA 4.0.
A rainbow ghost named Barba, pondering while looking at a laptop with a Wikipedia "W" on the back. A rainbow ghost named Barba. A rainbow ghost named Barba, happy and holding a camera.
June 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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[dumb wikipedia ideas]

at what point am I allowed to redirect Dan Bingobongo to Dan Bongino
May 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM