• Legendary: The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary, and WikiProject Video Games
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As one might expect for an online encyclopedia which is widely editable, English Wikipedia has an enormous number of articles about video games. One globally well known franchise is Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series. 2026 is the 40th anniversary of the series' first release in February 1986. In September 2026, Nintendo published a 40th anniversary version of the Triforce music theme on YouTube (external link).

English Wikipedia's WikiProject Video Games seems relatively active, based on my quick read of the WikiProject talk page. It is nice to see a WikiProject being successful.

I wondered about the origin of the series. According to the article, "The Legend of Zelda was principally inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's "explorations" as a young boy in the hillsides and forests surrounding his childhood home in Sonobe, Japan. According to Miyamoto, one of his most memorable experiences was finding a cave entrance in the middle of the woods. After some hesitation, he entered the cave and explored its depths with the aid of a lantern. Miyamoto has referred to the creation of the Zelda games as an attempt to bring to life a "miniature garden" for players to play with in each game of the series."

• Forward in hope, courage, and wisdom: the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek
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The three elements of the Triforce in the above-mentioned Legend of Zelda franchise correspond to power, courage, and wisdom. These somewhat align with important virtues in the science fiction franchise Star Trek, although I would say that Star Trek's three are hope, courage, and wisdom. The franchise has an undercurrent of hopefulness for humanity and Earth. This undercurrent of hopefulness, combined with portrayals of curiosity, courage, wisdom, sciences, cultures, and many other fields, reminds me in many ways of early optimism about the Internet, and early optimism about Wikipedia.

In its early days, Star Trek made some groundbreaking choices. Bridge officers on the same ship included a Russian man, a Japanese man, and a woman of African descent whose last name in Swahili means "freedom". During the early years of the franchise's production which occurred during the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement, seeing humanity united in this way would have made an impression on audiences.

For those who like video, this is a well-done supercut on YouTube. And if you would like a little Star Trek humor, see this parody of an audition for Star Trek: Voyager.

As the seasons start to change into autumn or spring, depending on where you are on Planet Earth, this might be a good time to listen to Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. There are some high quality audio recordings of it on Wikipedia thanks to the Wichita State University Chamber Players and conductor John Harrison.

Concerto No. 1 in E major, "La primavera" (Spring)

I. Allegro

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II. Largo

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III. Allegro

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Concerto No. 2 in G minor, "L'estate" (Summer)

I. Allegro non molto

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II. Adagio

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III. Presto

Concerto No. 3 in F major, "L'autunno" (Autumn)

I. Allegro

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II. Adagio molto

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III. Allegro

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, "L'inverno" (Winter)

I. Allegro non molto

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II. Largo

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III. Allegro

All performed by the Wichita State University Chamber Players, an ensemble of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra

Skillful translations of the sentence "What's making you happy this week?" would be very much appreciated. If you see any inaccuracies in the translations in this article, then please {{ping}} User:Pine or User:Clovermoss in the discussion section of this page, or boldly make the correction to the text of the article. Thank you to everyone who has helped with translations so far.

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