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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 12:22:58 JST Kunal Mehta
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 00:32:02 JST Kunal Mehta
Wordle 1,000 🎉 2/6*
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 11:13:18 JST Kunal Mehta
Not ready to fully advertise this, but since the spam wave is picking up again, here's the tool we're using for automated reporting of spam: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/legoktm/masto-monitor
everything is still human moderated, this is just helping us detect it as soon as it appears on the timeline.
and as always, thanks to the humans who unfortunately see the spam and are reporting it!
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 00:13:22 JST Kunal Mehta
@evan agreed, and that's basically what South Africa is saying.
https://accuracy.org/release/world-court-orders-israel-to-abide-by-genocide-convention-and-stop-killing/ had an interesting perspective on this:"A ‘ceasefire’ is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect."
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 00:12:54 JST Kunal Mehta
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-genocide-court-south-africa-27cf84e16082cde798395a95e9143c06
This is huge despite not outright calling for a ceasefire; I'm not sure how many more wake up calls the Biden administration needs to realize how isolated and *wrong* the US is on the Israel/Palestine war.
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 23:45:04 JST Kunal Mehta
Lightning talk intro: "I've been editing since 2005, 9k edits, and one block for edit warring, which was totally worth it"
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 23:44:59 JST Kunal Mehta
Interlude from the hacking room: @hdevine825 taking a photo of the inside of a #Framework laptop for the corresponding #Wikipedia article
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 23:44:54 JST Kunal Mehta
UPenn Libraries has a potential public domain tracker, for serials that didn't renew copyright, and it's cross-linked with Wikidata and Wikipedia
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/backfile/wikipedia-serials
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:40 JST Kunal Mehta
yikes, "Section 230 is what protects tech companies..." [from what users post / not taking down things]
No, that's the First Amendment!!
(I got annoyed and missed the full original quote)
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:39 JST Kunal Mehta
lol @annierau skipped introducing herself and referred the audience to the new #Wikipedia article on her
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:37 JST Kunal Mehta
The first version of the "United States" article on #Wikipedia only had 14 states -- @annierau
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:43:54 JST Kunal Mehta
#WikipediaDay in NYC has started with @fuzheado explaining how the Statue of Liberty was also crowdsourced (the stained glass just so happens to be in the other room)
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:43:47 JST Kunal Mehta
Julia Angwin describes journalism as having a trust crisis and that Wikipedia, by using citations/references, has built trust with its audience.
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 13:51:28 JST Kunal Mehta
@lapcatsoftware poast is one of the nastiest servers on the fediverse, so good on threads for blocking them.
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 16:20:19 JST Kunal Mehta
https://hachyderm.io/@paulbiggar/111627367674590120
Not that we needed one, but yet another reason to move off CircleCI.
If you haven't read his blog post yet: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 13:50:07 JST Kunal Mehta
New blog post: "Support my work, please"
https://blog.legoktm.com/2023/11/27/support-my-work-please.html
I am privileged to work full-time on FOSS at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and as a result, get to spend my free time contributing to wikis, running a Mastodon server and riding bikes.
FPF is doing its annual year-end fundraising drive and if you like my work and have the means to do so, I'd ask that you make a donation. (My blog post also has instructions on what to do if you hate my work.)
Thanks! :boost_ok:
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 18:29:52 JST Kunal Mehta
I wrote up some notes and published metrics regarding the past month and a half of the @wikipedia account:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia/May_2023
It ends with some next steps/goals, which can be summarized as needing to recruit more people to contribute
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 13:39:49 JST Kunal Mehta
Announcing the newest #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:
Saint John Church of Sohrol is a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran.
Attribution: Farzin Izaddoust dar / CC-BY-SA 4.0
2,360 voters in round 1, and 2,971 voters in round 2 selected this image first out of 57 finalists; you can view the rest of the results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results
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Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 12:02:27 JST Kunal Mehta
Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved feature: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/11/19/git-notes-gits-coolest-most-unloved-feature/
"Git notes are powerful tools. And they could solve so many problems—if only they were better known and easier to use."
"Git is a distributed code review system. But much of the value of git repos ends up locked into forges, like GitHub.
Git notes are a path toward an alternative."
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