Notices by Sam Wilson (samwilson@wikis.world)

@kaia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Steam_Packet_Company

@kaia Ah! Could be, good thought. Maybe "Per Royal Mail Steam Ship"?

It's xmas evening, I'm supping on mince pies and brandy and waiting for the King to send me a message, and transcribing some old letters on Wikisource.

This one is from 1876, and says (maybe?) P.B.M.S.S on the corner. Does anyone have an idea of what this might say and mean?

#genealogy

There's a bug with accesskey shortcuts in Vector2022, and I'm surprised that there aren't more peole annoyed by it. I feel like I hit ctrl-alt-e to edit very often, and all it does at the moment is highlight the edit link.

The #Mozilla rebranding announcement says that the "green palette that is quintessential with nature and nonprofits that make it their mission to better the world, this is a nod to making the internet a better place for all."

I'm not sure the enviro movement is the first thing I think of when I see green text on black, with a blinking green text caret.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

@nemobis Yeah, supposedly private messaging is exempt, but how that works for things like massive Telegram groups or whatever I don't know!

Their aim is to reduce bullying etc. so it seems that DMs should be part of it.

So is a Mastodon installation going to be called an "age-restricted social media platform"? It seems have posts and to enable "online social interaction" between people, which is about all that's required. How about some random blog with comments enabled?

#AusPol

@egonw @nemobis True. But I also think the IA's ethos of "preservation before availability" is being played out at the moment. My impression is that they're more likely than many sites to not mind having reduced services for weeks (if it's seen as necessary), because ultimately what they're concerned with is the long term. As someone who uploads items there, that makes me happy.

@wjmaggos @evan I don't really understand: each object in a collection gets its own fediverse account, e.g. @1897196735 — but how's that better than having a stable URL for something? I guess following a single collection item means you'd get updates about edits to its metadata or something? (Although an example in the article is that an aircraft will post about its flights.) It doesn't seem to make it easy to follow the conversation around an item or the whole collection (like a hashtag does).

Only three weeks today till the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon. I'm a bit excited. #wmhack

This sounds cool:
https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2024-04-02-hugo-shortcode-books/

I've been wanting to add a similar (but Wikidata-powered) bibliography thing to my website. #staticSites

It's the end of the second day of the #WikimediaWishathon and I'm giving up for the night.

Has been great fun so far working with people on all sorts of projects. There's something nice about having a whole weekend set aside to just be as slow as is needed to go through issues with people, with no sense of having to hurry.

I can't believe SimplePie #RSS (PHP library) is still going strong — since 2006! It appears to still be a reasonable thing to use to parse news feeds.

@tchambers Probably not this time around, as we're focusing on proposals that have already come through the Wishlist and been voted on. You can see last year's list here (and there are similar ones for previous years): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Results

There will be more info sometime after the Wishathon about how the proposal system will work in 2024.

I'm looking forward to the first Community Tech #WikimediaWishathon coming up on March 15-17. It's a time for us in CommTech to join forces with the wider community to work on Wishlist projects.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024

New version of #Wikisource Export is released now.

https://ws-export.wmcloud.org

It's not massive, but does change how the HTML is loaded before transformation into EPUB — so please do shout if you notice anything wrong! 😃

https://github.com/wikimedia/ws-export/releases/tag/2.12.0

There are so many 'remember me' checkboxes on the internet that do no such thing.