Sunday 22
Time zones again
Our preferences pages have a timezone setting, is it used anywhere? Time stamps on-wiki are displayed as UTC, and the only parser functions I can find deal with universal time or server time (also UTC for MediaWiki servers).
I found mw:Extension:TimeConvert (a parser function) and mw:Extension:AllTimeZones (a tag). Both take the explicit zone and don't hook into pref's. Plus neither appears to me installed on en.wp or mw.
Contemplating whether to ask this at w:en:Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical), mw:Project:Support desk, meta:Tech, …
- Posted to WP:VPT#Time zone preference
APC and Paralympics
edit- Mallett, Ross (2016-12-07). "Creating and writing sports history on Wikipedia: A Wikipedian's experience at the Paralympic Games". Wikimedia Blog.
- "Between the London and Rio Games, funding dried up, with the APC suffering severe cutbacks from the government, and Wikimedia Australia was de-funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Fortunately, additional funding was provided by the National Research Council."
- Ketchell, Misha (August 29, 2012). "Wikipedia will help create the most 'visible' Paralympics ever". The Conversation.
- [1] Wikimedia Australia, source for a couple of the links.
- dead link — http://www.paralympic.org.au/news/apc-secure-australia%E2%80%99s-paralympic-history
Update Tue 1 Oct:
- JBH presented information that LH was a paid copywriter.
- Tender by University of Canberra Institute of National Sports Studies to Australian Paralympic Committee for project History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia (HoPAU).
- Bidgee claimed that LH was not paid, but didn't reply to JBH's further analysis.
- HOPAU @ London 2012 Paralympics report by LH.
- Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Archive 21#Request for reversal of vanishing &/ ban by motion
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Steward_requests/Username_changes&oldid=19413010 "redacted per request of F--" hmm.
- Vanished user adhmfdfmykrdyr
- meta WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Biographies/Laura Hale [2]