Hi,
a big thank you to Yuri for flagging this case of manipulation of public
opinion.
Reading through the links provided - i can say WP edit time was mostly
discussed among ”pro-state” media. One journalist even went as far as
insinuating that assassination was planned in the ”west” and that WP
This idea, I like it! And I think Yuri just volunteered to write the patches :P
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone
Well, not all users have JavaScript. But, on the core of the proposal:
What threats? What users? How many, how serious? Have they been
reported to Legal and Community Advocacy? These are the questions we
tend to ask about this sort of issue. Do we need to insert technical
features to prevent it?
Threats: This page
http://novorus.info/news/analytics/34163-vikipediya-soobschila-ob-ubiystve-nemcova-za-2-chasa-do-samogo-ubiystva.html
(in Russian, very non-credible source of information, but has enough
following to make it to MK.ru), discuss a well known wikipedian Dmitry
Rozhkov. I saw
Speaking of changes to the timestamps and UTC...
Whatever happened to this change that was announced in 2012?
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-revision-history-experiment/
Something like this now happens on the Mobile view, but I thought this
experiment (as described in the WMF blog)
On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone
be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the
user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's
known in the
On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone
be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the
user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's
known in the
Hello,
FYI we had the same issue two years ago in Tunisia when a Tunisian
politician was shot and an IP made the edit in UTC. See our response in
(in French)
http://www.wikimedia.tn/nouvelle-polemique-sur-wikipedia-en-tunisie/
Finally the Radio station who relayed this scoop wrote an
