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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 17
2026-01-17T00:00:00Z
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<td class="toccolours" style="padding:0"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm/330px--Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="300" height="169" data-durationhint="1611" data-mwtitle="Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_(Former_Yugoslavia).webm" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm/Tour_of_Mount_Sabotin_Slovenia_War_-_World_War_1_%28Former_Yugoslavia%29.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span></span>
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_1" class="extiw" title="w:World War 1">World War 1</a> Tour of Mount <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotin" class="extiw" title="w:Sabotin">Sabotin</a> in Slovenia</div>
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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 18
2026-01-18T00:00:00Z
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;">Introductory video explaining what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)" class="extiw" title="w:Mastodon (social network)">Mastodon</a> is, a free open source decentralized Europe-based social media platform.</div>
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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 19
2026-01-19T00:00:00Z
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<td class="toccolours" style="padding:0"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><video id="mwe_player_2" poster="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm/330px-seek%3D14-Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="300" height="169" data-durationhint="105" data-mwtitle="Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="av01.0.08M.08, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm/Ecovative-_Growing_Sustainable_Products_From_Mushroom_Mycelium_To_Save_The_Planet.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span></span>
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;">A video by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovative_Design" class="extiw" title="w:Ecovative Design">Ecovative Design</a> that shows novel types of plastics-free <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sustainable_packaging" class="extiw" title="w:sustainable packaging">sustainable packaging</a> and other products based on fungi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mycelium" class="extiw" title="w:mycelium">mycelium</a>, an area of extensive contemporary innovation in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bioeconomy" class="extiw" title="w:bioeconomy">bioeconomy</a>.</div>
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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 20
2026-01-20T00:00:00Z
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<td class="toccolours" style="padding:0"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_3" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="300" style="width:300px;" data-durationhint="262" data-mwtitle="Cloudkicker_-_Let_Yourself_Be_Huge.flac" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/Cloudkicker_-_Let_Yourself_Be_Huge.flac/Cloudkicker_-_Let_Yourself_Be_Huge.flac.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/Cloudkicker_-_Let_Yourself_Be_Huge.flac/Cloudkicker_-_Let_Yourself_Be_Huge.flac.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Cloudkicker_-_Let_Yourself_Be_Huge.flac" type="audio/flac" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span>
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudkicker" class="extiw" title="w:Cloudkicker">Cloudkicker</a> – Let Yourself Be Huge</i> (a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/post-rock" class="extiw" title="w:post-rock">post-rock</a> music track)</div>
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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 21
2026-01-21T00:00:00Z
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<td class="toccolours" style="padding:0"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><video id="mwe_player_4" poster="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm/330px-seek%3D95-ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="300" height="169" data-durationhint="205" data-mwtitle="ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f4/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm/ECONOVO_-_Center_for_Ecological_Dynamics_in_a_Novel_Biosphere.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span></span>
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;">A video about <a href="/wiki/Category:Videos_of_ecosystems" title="Category:Videos of ecosystems">ecological</a> research and the Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_University" class="extiw" title="w:Aarhus University">Aarhus University</a> in Denmark.</div>
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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 22
2026-01-22T00:00:00Z
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Time-lapse_videos_of_construction" title="Category:Time-lapse videos of construction">Timelapse video</a> of a family setting up a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tent" class="extiw" title="w:tent">tent</a> at the Fish Lake Campground, July 9, 2018. Fish Lake Campground is located on the western slope of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steens_Mountain" class="extiw" title="w:Steens Mountain">Steens Mountain</a>.</div>
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;">Apartment building in Kyiv (Sviatoshyn District) after strike by cruise missile Iskander <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war" class="extiw" title="en:Russo-Ukrainian war">during Russian attack</a> on the city <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_(1_June_2025_%E2%80%93_31_August_2025)#31_July" class="extiw" title="en:Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 June 2025 – 31 August 2025)">in the night and morning of 31 July 2025</a>. 32 people were killed and more than 159 injured according to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-july-31-attack-death-toll-rises-to-32-as-another-victim-dies-in-hospital/">a report</a>.</div>
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Wikimedia Commons media of the day for January 26
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<td><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="description en" style="display:inline;">Interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_M._Wattenberg" class="extiw" title="w:Martin M. Wattenberg">Martin M. Wattenberg</a>, made for a documentary <i>Clouds</i> (2014) that explores different perspectives on the intersection of code and culture.<br />Wattenberg is an U.S. American scientist and artist known for his work with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/data_visualization" class="extiw" title="w:data visualization">data visualization</a>. He is currently the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He talks about visual explorations of and insights from culturally significant data.</div>
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