Ah, okay, that's alright then!! I retract my statement :) Joe
On 2 November 2015 at 17:51, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Joe, > > Yes it is cited. > > Linguist Leo Rosten wrote in "The Joys of Yiddish" about the first known > mention of the Polish word bajgiel derived from the Yiddish word bagel in > the "Community Regulations" of the city of Kraków in 1610, which stated > that the item was given as a gift to women in childbirth.[7] > > It's just not cited on the first reference. > > Jeff Elder > Digital communications manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 704-650-4130 > @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> > @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> > The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I see that the bagel social is out already, but the fact in the Wikipedia >> article isn't actually cited to anything... We should probably be careful >> to make sure the stuff we're tweeting is verifiable. >> >> The k.d. lang fact is also uncited in the Wikipedia article. How about: >> >> Hapy birthday, singer k.d. lang. Did you know she once re-enacted a seven >> hour heart transplant as a performance-art piece? >> >> Joe >> >> On 2 November 2015 at 05:58, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Happy birthday, singer k.d. lang. Did you know? Her first band was a >>> Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.d._lang >>> >>> The first known mention of the bagel was in 1610 in Kraków, Poland. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel >>> >>> Born this day in 1755, Marie Antoinette, who never said of starving >>> French revolutionaries "let them eat cake." >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette >>> >>> Jeff Elder >>> Digital communications manager >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> 704-650-4130 >>> @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> >>> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> >>> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Joe Sutherland* >> Communications Intern [remote] >> m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: >> JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
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