Notices by Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world), page 2

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/

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:

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

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

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

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."

#git #gitnotes