File:WP25 "Hello, World!".webm

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Description
English: The “Hello, World” opening video, featuring data visualization elements, was created for the Wikimedia Foundation on the occasion of Wikipedia’s 25th birthday.
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Source Wikimedia Foundation
Author Wikimedia Foundation; For full list of attributions, see table below.

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FILE TITLE AUTHOR SOURCE LICENSE
File:Hello,_World!.mp3 Hello, World Nicolas Pacheco Monroy Nicolas Pacheco Monroy CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Jimmy Wales' Mac and the First Wikipedia Edit — "Hello World" (51738433963).jpg Jimmy Wales' Mac and the First Wikipedia Edit — "Hello World" (51738433963) Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/51738433963/ CC BY 2.0
File:Orange_tabby_cat_sitting_on_fallen_leaves-Hisashi-01A.jpg Orange_tabby_cat_sitting_on_fallen_leaves-Hisashi-01A Caspian blue Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
File:Altare_della_Patria_(Roma).jpg Altare della Patria (Rome) Paolo Costa Baldi Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
File:Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) https://web.archive.org/web/20120524155855/http://www.technologies.c2rmf.fr/imaging/showcase Public domain
File:Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft2edit1.jpg Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft2edit1Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft2edit1 (cropped) NASA File:Soyuz_TMA-7_spacecraft2.jpg#:~:text=http%3A//spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew%2D12/html/iss012e24219.html Public domain
File:Tour Eiffel Wikimedia Commons.jpg Tour Eiffel Wikimedia Commons Benh LIEU SONG Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
File:HMS_BOUNTY_II_with_Full_Sails.jpg HMS BOUNTY II with Full Sails Dan Kasberger Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
File:Great_Pyramid_of_Giza_-_Pyramid_of_Khufu.jpg Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu Douwe C. van der Zee Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Ionic_capital_in_Pergamon_Asclepium.jpg Ionic capital in Pergamon Asclepium Bernard Gagnon Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.
File:"Hello,_World!"_Jimmy_Wales_NFT.png “Hello, World!” Jimmy Wales NFT Jimmy Wales Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
File:English_Wikipedia_HomePage_2001-02-19.png English Wikipedia homepage (2001-02-19) Wikipedia users; resurrected by Meow Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
File:21th_birthday_of_Polish_Wikipedia_in_Katowice_-_birthday_cake_002.jpg 21st birthday of Polish Wikipedia in Katowice, birthday cake Krzysztof Popławski Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Rotating_Blue_Marble.webm Rotating Blue Marble Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds), enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation) Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
File:Wikimedia-logo.png Wikimedia logo Neolux Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
Commons:Welcome Commons:Welcome page Wikimedia Commons contributors Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0.
File:MediaWiki_fallback_chains.svg MediaWiki fallback chains Nikerabbit Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki homepage screenshot MediaWiki contribuitors MediaWiki CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Nature_ journal_logo.svg Nature Journal Logo Nature https://www.nature.com/static/images/logos/nature-logo-40.21a62d60b0.svg Public domain
File:Nature_cover,_November_4,_1869.jpg Nature cover, November 4, 1869 Nature journal https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AHistSciTech Public domain
File:IPhone_1st_Gen.svg iPhone 1st Gen Rafael Fernandez Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata Main Page Wikidata contributors. Embedded images: NASA (Public Domain); Goele (CC BY-SA 3.0); Luca Galuzzi (CC BY-SA 2.5); Guanting17 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Ederporto (Public Domain) Wikidata CC0 1.0

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All Wikipedia 25 Virtual Celebration speakers and artists agreed to release the recording under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Assessment

Media of the day This file was selected as the media of the day for 22 February 2026. It was captioned as follows:
English: The “Hello, World” opening video, created for the Wikimedia Foundation on the occasion of Wikipedia’s 25th birthday.
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English: The “Hello, World” opening video, created for the Wikimedia Foundation on the occasion of Wikipedia’s 25th birthday.

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