Thanks a lot for working on this! \o/ I'll definitely use it for the next international conference I'm involved in (Celtic Knot Conference, for which I'm drafting the schedule right now). I think it would be really useful to have it as a gadget, as I don't really imagine asking our non-Wikimedians participants to "copy paste this piece of code on your common.js".
Cheers, On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 17:14, Michael Schönitzer < michael.schoenit...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hi, > > due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. This > allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier > handling different timezones is more important. > Since Wikimedians love to organize and schedule their events onwiki, often > on Meta-Wiki, I wrote a tiny userscript and template that allows organizers > to set up the conference program with UTC times and users can see them in > their local timezone and local date format. It's of course also usable for > all other kinds of pages. > > It works and is useable but so far still in my user namespace: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)/timezoneconverter > > As the next step I would like to move it to the main namespace on meta and > convert it to a gadget. (Later it could be copied to other Wikis, when > needed.) > Before that I wanted to ask for feedback. Is this something you would use? > Is there anything esential missing, can you see any negative side effects, > or would you like it to be renamed before people start using it? Looking > forward to hearing from you. > > Cheers, > M > > PS: The great idea for this gadget is from Léa Lacroix. > > -- > *M. F. Schönitzer* > Community Communication > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > > https://wikimedia.de > > Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit > teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! > > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
