Notices by Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)

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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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!

@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."

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.

Lightning talk intro: "I've been editing since 2005, 9k edits, and one block for edit warring, which was totally worth it"

#WikipediaDay

Interlude from the hacking room: @hdevine825 taking a photo of the inside of a #Framework laptop for the corresponding #Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Computer

#WikipediaDay

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

#WikipediaDay #PublicDomain

yikes, "Section 230 is what protects tech companies..." [from what users post / not taking down things]

No, that's the First Amendment!!

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

(I got annoyed and missed the full original quote)

#WikipediaDay

lol @annierau skipped introducing herself and referred the audience to the new #Wikipedia article on her

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Rauwerda

#WikipediaDay

The first version of the "United States" article on #Wikipedia only had 14 states -- @annierau

#WikipediaDay

#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)

Julia Angwin describes journalism as having a trust crisis and that Wikipedia, by using citations/references, has built trust with its audience.

#WikipediaDay

@lapcatsoftware poast is one of the nastiest servers on the fediverse, so good on threads for blocking them.

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/