1. Happy to rediscover Clipboard History plugin in Chrome. It saves the frustration of hunting around, or rewording, a reusable snippet of wikitext on Commons image pages. 2. As part of a Commons discussion on copyright, for the first time in a couple of years created a flowchart, and experienced the same pleasure in setting out logic in this old fashioned way as I used to experience in the 1980s. ... Do kids learn about von Neumann these days?
Links * https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-history-2/ajiejmhbejpdgkkigpddefnjmgcbkenk * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_flowchart_for_old_public_domain_images.svg * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann On 11 March 2018 at 05:08, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's making me happy this week: > > 1. A recent entry in the Mozilla Blog discussed the possible value of > anonymity in decreasing bias in code review processes: > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/03/08/gender-bias-code-reviews/ > > 2. The opt-in "pingback" telemetry from MediaWiki installations, which is > available since March 2017, suggests that there are more than 40,000 unique > installations. See: > https://pingback.wmflabs.org, > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPingback and > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Pingback_Privacy_Statement. > > There is also some news which is a little older and I am now getting around > to sharing here: > > 3. A research project has been started which aims to test whether vandal > activity can be detected in (near) real time, which may open opportunities > for interventions earlier in the process of publishing edits. See > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ai/2018-January/000221.html. > > What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
