Notices by Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)

Congratulations to IPv6 address 2409:40C2:E:A7EE:8000:0:0:0 for making the very last edit on the English #Wikipedia that will be attributed directly to an IP address (unregistered users are now given a "temporary account" to mask their IP from the general public)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mastiii_4&diff=prev&oldid=1320371783

Started canvassing for #Zohran at 9am today, ran into two dudes from Spain, who, after apologizing for not being able to vote, wanted to take a selfie with us and said "Good luck, socialism is possible!"

And...it seems to be working, today saw more votes (151k) than on the equivalent day in the *2024 general election* (149k), which is insane!!!!

#NYC #NYCpol

What a great #Wikipedia featured article for today, given the news Adams is dropping out of the #NYC mayor's race.

In case you didn't know: Sabrina Carpenter filmed a racy music video for "Feather" inside a Catholic Church, which led to backlash and an investigation into the monsignor to gave her permission, which brought the attention of federal investigators, who uncovered ties to the Adams administration and eventually led to the indictment of Eric Adams himself.

Yes, this is 100% real.

I signed the petition to #OSI to release the full 2025 election results.

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

I am primarily a lurker on the license-discuss and license-review lists and let my membership lapse a while back, so no idea how much weight my opinion holds, but I think it's an entirely reasonable request to 1) not change the election format/rules on affiliates after deadlines and 2) release full election results, even if candidates were disqualified after voting ended.

@nemobis I'm optimistic too, the ball is really in the MTA's court now to actually use the $15 billion to improve transit.

Time will tell if Hochul made the right move; it was all already approved, she delayed it purely because of the Nov. election and to her credit, Dems picked up most of the winnable House seats. It's hard to tell if lowering the price afterwards actually assuaged any of the backlash, I haven't seen any evidence that it did.

Happy #NYC #CongestionPricing Eve!

There's about 100 people in below freezing temperatures at 60th and Lex to celebrate, also a few counterprotesters.

#NYC #CongestionPricing

Cars cross 60th St and pay the #CongestionPricing toll that kicked in at midnight.

Loudest cheers are whenever a bus passes by.

#NYC

Some profanity aimed at NJ Gov Phil Murphy for all his (failed) last minute lawsuits to try and block #CongestionPricing

An ambulance crosses into the #CongestionPricing zone. EMS and FDNY response times have gone up over the past decade because of increased congestion - the toll should help speed them up:
https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-emergency-response-teams-set-record-slow-times-due-increased-congestion-report/15331864/

I've uploaded my photos and videos from tonight's #CongestionPricing launch to Commons; you can find them in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York_City_congestion_pricing along with other folks' media. All are available under a 🇨🇨 license that allows for free reuse (usually only requiring attribution)

Streetsblog has a really nice explainer and summary for everyone who hasn't been closely following the #NYC #CongestionPricing saga: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/05/congestion-pricing-has-begun-here-is-the-only-explainer-you-need

New #Wikipedia article: 12345 hotline, which as I understand it, is China's equivalent of 311.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12345_hotline

I saw this tweet (https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1869971055206658177) earlier today about how most people haven't heard of it how useful it is and there is no analogue in the West. My impression about the latter is that it was overblown (there weren't enough non-state media sources to tell), but I definitely didn't know about it until reading the tweet so now it's in the English Wikipedia!

At 10am ET, I'll be speaking about "10 years of Toolforge" at WikiConference North America!

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2024/10_years_of_Toolforge

It'll be streamed at https://room3.wcna.wiki/ (and recorded too)!

#Toolforge #WikiConfNA

@tchambers @fediforum hey :) unfortunately I'll be at RustConf then and tbh I haven't much opportunity to promote Fedi in Wikimedia circles recently - maybe @taavi, @theresnotime or @annierau would be interested in participating?

"Lessons from the death and rebirth of Thunderbird" - https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/982610/77a9168c2a079ae6/

I've been a monthly #Thunderbird donor ever since they kind of spun out of Mozilla and this recap is absolutely fantastic.

> Another thing the project did to draw attention was to give the next release after the new logo a "fancy cool name". The Thunderbird 115 release was called Supernova, though there was no particular reason for the name choice. "I just thought this sounds cool, and people will want to know more."

New blog post: "Building a less terrible URL shortener" (for #Wikimedia projects)

https://blog.legoktm.com/2024/07/23/building-a-less-terrible-url-shortener.html

I started writing this blog post back in 2016 and never finished, so here it is, the basic principles behind the w.wiki URL shortener.

Reply to this thread if you want the connection details for my #SignalProxy, or send me a DM so I can share the link with you.

(#Signal is asking for people to run more proxies in https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please/ - it's relatively straightforward)

#Signal usernames are nearly here! And extra privacy controls to hide your phone number

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

Wordle 1,000 🎉 2/6*

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