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Ukraine's Ministry of Culture is urging the public to take part in Ukrainian Language Week on Wikipedia. The campaign encourages editors and volunteers to create and improve articles in Ukrainian, supporting the language's visibility online at a time when cultural identity has become a focal point amid the war with Russia.

Wikidata is marking fourteen years since twelve people in Berlin began building what has grown into the world's largest free knowledge graph. An anniversary post invites community members to identify the twelve founders in a historical photo, prompting nostalgia and reflection on the project's evolution from a small team into core infrastructure for Wikipedia and countless linked-data applications worldwide.

A grey heron (Ardea cinerea) was photographed at the Santillana Reservoir near Soto del Real, Spain, on 10 July 2026. The sighting was shared with nature and birdwatching communities, with the observer linking information about the species. Grey herons are common wading birds across Europe, and local reservoirs like Santillana regularly attract them, drawing interest from birders and wildlife photographers in the Madrid region.

A German-language nature post describes spotting Chelidurella acanthopygia, the forest earwig, noting that although it is often considered a common insect, it is actually encountered rarely — for the poster it was a first conscious sighting. The post links to its Wikipedia entry and celebrates the small discovery with the tag for insects, drawing modest attention from wildlife enthusiasts.

A new tool has been launched offering an open, shared model of US energy infrastructure, described by Renewable Energy World as something like a 'Wikipedia for the grid'. It aims to give planners, researchers and utilities a common, openly accessible picture of the country's power system as grid upgrades and clean energy expansion accelerate.

A grey heron (Ardea cinerea) has been photographed at the Embalse de Santillana reservoir in Soto del Real, north of Madrid, Spain. The image, dated 10 July 2026, shows the wading bird in its natural wetland habitat and has drawn appreciation from nature and birdwatching enthusiasts. The Santillana reservoir is a known spot for herons and other waterbirds in the Sierra de Guadarrama area.

Cliff Stoll's 1989 book 'The Cuckoo's Egg' is being shared and discussed online. The book recounts how Stoll, then an astronomer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, tracked a 75-cent accounting error to uncover a hacker selling US secrets to the KGB. It remains a foundational text in cybersecurity, still praised for its detailed account of early network intrusion detection.