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A Language Committee member provided the following comment:

The proposal for closing the Greenlandic Wikipedia is accepted. Despite Greenlandic being an official language with roughly 60,000 speakers, the wiki has never developed a viable community: over the last two decades only one or two Greenlandic users have contributed, and there has been almost no growth in the last five years. Most articles are short or unintelligible, and machine-generated content—initially from experimental Greenlandic machine translators and more recently from AI tools like Google Translate—has frequently produced nonsense that could misrepresent the language. The sole active admin, with academic expertise in Greenlandic, has had to monitor and delete such content, but no sustainable community exists to safeguard the language. Given the risk of harm to the Greenlandic language, the seemingly negative attitude towards the project in Greenland, and the absence of genuine user activity, the project should be closed, with any remaining content moved to the Incubator for future use. --MF-W 20:53, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024

Picture of the Year 2024 is the nineteenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons.

There are two rounds of the Picture of the Year contest. In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like.

In the second round, you may vote for up to 3 finalists you like. Each of these 3 votes counts equally and you can only vote for each finalist once.

To vote, you must be an established Wikimedia user registered prior to January 1, 2025, with at least 75 edits on Wikimedia projects.

Last year's winner, Incense in Vietnam:

Photo taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. In this picture, incense sticks are being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution. Author: Trantuanviet

https://antiquitasviva.com/the-unclassical-balkans/

Special issue of journal Жива антика / Antiquité Vivante no. 11. Edited by Feđa Milivojević, Vojislav Sarakinski & Julia Tzvetkova.

The present volume, The Unclassical Balkans, attempts to bridge these gaps in the research of the region in the period of Antiquity by bringing together a diverse collection of studies exploring the ancient societies of the Balkan Peninsula as they existed alongside and beyond the classical Greek and Roman worlds. This deliberate departure from the traditional Graeco- and Romano-centric lens aims, instead, to illuminate the cultural multiplicity, regional specificity, and historical complexity of the local societies, as well as to emphasise their historical position between the Mediterranean region and Central Europe.

The chronological scope of the volume spans from prehistory (the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods), during which the emergence of local cultural phenomena and practices may have first emerged, through the multifaceted developments of the Iron Age, up to and including the profound political and social transformations resulting from the Roman expansion and integration into the Roman Empire. Rather than relying solely on Greek or Roman narratives, these studies emphasise local agency, indigenous material cultures, and internal dynamics — whether in patterns of social organisation, the structure of the settlement network, trade and economic practices, or in their responses to colonisation and conquest.

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“I never liked film music very much,” Williams said to The Guardian’s Dalya Alberge, “Film music, however good it can be — and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … I just think the music isn’t there. What we think of as this precious great film music … we’re remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way. Just the idea that film music has the same place in the concert hall as the best music in the canon is a mistaken notion, I think.”