User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/09/22

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

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]