iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Made a website where you can explore Wikipedia like it's a file system on your desktop: explorer.samismith.com

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Nookipedia @nookipedia.com · 14/04/2026

April 14, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of the very first Animal Crossing game, Doubutsu no Mori (どうぶつの森)! nookipedia.com/wiki/Doubuts... Pictured is new anniversary art Nintendo has shared on social media.

Graphic celebrating Animal Crossing’s 25th anniversary. Tortimer, Isabelle, K.K. Slider, Timmy and Tommy, Tom Nook, and Rover gather around a large green leaf icon.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 15/01/2026

For Wikipedia's 25th birthday, I'm sharing Wiki Arcade, a virtual directory of wiki-powered games made by amazing people. 🕹️ playwiki.games

A virtual arcade cabinet featuring various wiki-themed games

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 29/12/2025

"What an unprocessed photo looks like", a great look at processing a RAW image, by Maurycyz maurycyz.com/misc/raw_pho...

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 12/12/2025

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 these ~2 second hand-held exposures ✈️🌌

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 01/11/2025

If I recall correctly, Vogue Taiwan's YouTube channel had been freely licensing their videos, so they were able to be screenshotted and uploaded to Commons. But Vogue did not intend to freely license their videos so they ended up being deleted ;(

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Attention Bryan fans!! There's a group of Wikipedians called WikiPortraits that takes portraits of public figures and navigates press passes. Volunteer with them if you want to support more Bryans or be your own Bryan! website is wikiportraits.org and the account to follow is @wikiportraits.org

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Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States @wikilovesmonuments.us · 30/10/2025

ONE DAY LEFT for #WikiLovesMonuments in the United States! Help document history and improve Wikipedia by contributing your photos of historic sites. Ten photos will be selected to win a prize and go on to the international competition! 🌍 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

October 1st to 31st, Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States 2025. Photo by MichaeldDPhotos, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States @wikilovesmonuments.us · 01/10/2025

#WikiLovesMonuments 2025 has started in the U.S.! 📸 Through October, help document history and improve Wikipedia by contributing your photos of historic sites. Ten photos will be selected to win a prize and go on to the international competition! 🌍 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 06/08/2025

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.

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 30/05/2025

What if every Wikipedia edit spawned an asteroid? At this year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas, US, visitors to the Wikihaus got to find out thanks to a playful, community-built project that turns real-time edits into an old-school arcade game. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

WikiAsteroids Image shows a video console with a screen, joystick, and six yellow, red, and blue buttons along with game graphics reading "Mean Girls", "Private Inventory", and "Ken (unit)" on the left. Main text says: Ever been crushed by a Wikipedia article that is hurtling through space? Now you can be, thanks to WikiAsteroids, a chaotic retro game where real-time activity on Wikipedia becomes asteroids and powerups.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 26/05/2025

Surprised this was up for grabs. starwarsweb.net now redirects to cia.gov (and I'm now the proud owner of a former CIA property 😈)

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/05/2025

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine. “A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish. 🔗 Explore: web.archive.org 🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

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Can the Internet Archive save our digital history? | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 22/03/2025

Passport check has always been the norm (don't want to show up on the other side without it!). Facial recognition has been rolling out over the last few years and is now quite normal.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 20/03/2025

Another idea someone suggested to me was focused on the positive. If you're logged into Wikipedia, you could automatically send a "thanks" to the editor of each asteroid you blow up. Or, picking up a powerup from a new user registration could send them a welcome message on their talk page.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 20/03/2025

It's not like, super useful, since other bots and patrol tools would also pick up those edits, but it could still be a fun option for more lighthearted patrolling. There are existing scoring models that can be used for this, though I'm not sure if they are currently surfaced via event streams.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 20/03/2025

Making the game "useful" has been on the back of my mind! I've been thinking about vandal patrol. Edits likely to be vandalism could appear differently (e.g. asteroid is red, faster, etc.), and those edits can be logged separately so the user can investigate afterwards.

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Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Do you like #wikipedia? Do you like olde timey arcade games? Or, do you just like it when people do cool things on the Internet? (A sort of dying art...)

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 18/03/2025

Wrote a Diff post about WikiAsteroids (asteroids.wiki), discussing the creation of the game and arcade cabinet that debuted during SXSW, as well as the various games and visualizations that have come before. diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/18/w...

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WikiAsteroids - Real-time Wikipedia Space Shooter

A space shooter game powered by real-time Wikipedia edits. Shoot asteroids representing article changes and collect powerups from new articles and editors.

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Kolby Ari @ariair.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Try this game @payravi.dev cooked up when I said “Facts should occupy more physical space in our lives” at recent conference on credibility, trust, and verifiability. If you make arcade cabinets get at us about building out a WikiArcade!

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 13/03/2025

200% tariffs on European wine?

A man angrily slamming his hand against a desk repeatedly

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 11/03/2025

WikiAsteroids dev here, love that! Thank you for your service 🫡

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 11/03/2025

Yay! Was likely outdated cache before

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

my friend kevin just made this game where real-time wikipedia edits are astroids that you have to shoot!!!! when someone creates a new article you get an extra life, and a big astroid mean it was a big wikipedia edit (like that "kids bop 3" one) asteroids.wiki

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 10/03/2025

Oooh, that's a great idea! I'll look into it.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 10/03/2025

Introducing WikiAsteroids, a classic arcade asteroids game powered by real-time #Wikipedia edits! ☄️ asteroids.wiki Each edit on Wikipedia spawns an asteroid. The larger the edit, the larger the asteroid. A newly created article spawns an extra life, while a newly registered user spawns a powerup.

A screenshot from 'WikiAsteroids,' a browser-based game inspired by the classic Asteroids arcade game. The title 'WikiAsteroids' is displayed at the top in bold, futuristic font. The game screen has a black background with a green triangular spaceship. Floating around are asteroids with article titles such as 'Cyclura rileyi,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Private inventory,' and 'Ken (unit),' along with a powerup labeled 'User:WikiEditor.'

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 25/02/2025

What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base 🖼️ godotengine.org/article/muse...

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Godot Showcase - Museum of All Things

What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 14/02/2025

With WikiCredCon 2025 starting today, I had to design some wiki-themed Valentine candies!

Five valentine candies sitting on a rose. They say, "Edit me?", "Talk: to me", "citation found", "on my watchlist", and "you're notable"

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 13/02/2025

"My concept of a glass of wine is very fucked"

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 10/02/2025

I want to put a few Wiimotes into the WinRAR messenger bag and go play Super Smash Bros. Brawl with my friends

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 10/02/2025

My whitest friend switched mid-Kendrick to watch Big Bang Theory

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 06/02/2025

I've been enjoying WikiTok, a simple TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles. Site: wikitok.vercel.app Source: github.com/IsaacGemal/wikitok New ways to explore Wikipedia and adapt for how users consume media...more projects and experiments like this!

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/01/2025

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

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Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 01/01/2025

Happy Public Domain Day! 🎉 Starting today, many new works can be freely shared and even adapted in new ways by everyone. This is why Public Domain Day is a celebration for free knowledge enthusiasts around the world. See what is entering the public domain ➡️ w.wiki/CNUL

Goldfish, painting by Matisse. Text says: It's Public Domain Day. Every year, a new wave of creative works enter the public domain – they are now free for anyone to use. However, because laws vary around the world, copyright status can change from country to country.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/12/2024

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 19/12/2024

That's nice. I've reported spam businesses in the middle of the ocean as not being there and had those edits rejected 😅

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 19/12/2024

I sometimes feel the same way, Mr. Scroggs

A Nextdoor notification from a man named Richard Scroggs that emphatically says, "UN sub scribe NOW!!!!"

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 18/12/2024

A perennial UX quirk on #Wikipedia: a new contributor was working on a draft, but didn't click the "Publish page" button because of their (reasonable) assumption that it would publish the page as a live article. They assumed their work is auto-saved like many document editors do and lost their work.

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Arnab Nandi @arnab.org · 17/12/2024

Excited to give this a try! Last time this happened was FriendFeed (which despite its short-lived existence, changed the world in so many meaningful ways)

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Kevin Payravi @payravi.dev · 17/12/2024

Enjoying the fact that the Sundance website developer log prints your name every time you resize the window.

A screenshot of the Sundance Film Festival website and its developer console log. The log shows repeating lines that say "window resized!" and "Kevin".

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