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Sunday 22

Time zones again

Our preferences pages have a timezone setting, is it used anywhere? Time stamps on-wiki are displayed as UTC, and the only parser functions I can find deal with universal time or server time (also UTC for MediaWiki servers).

I found mw:Extension:TimeConvert (a parser function) and mw:Extension:AllTimeZones (a tag). Both take the explicit zone and don't hook into pref's. Plus neither appears to me installed on en.wp or mw.

Contemplating whether to ask this at w:en:Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical), mw:Project:Support desk, meta:Tech, …

Posted to WP:VPT#Time zone preference

APC and Paralympics

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  • Mallett, Ross (2016-12-07). "Creating and writing sports history on Wikipedia: A Wikipedian's experience at the Paralympic Games". Wikimedia Blog.
    • "Between the London and Rio Games, funding dried up, with the APC suffering severe cutbacks from the government, and Wikimedia Australia was de-funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Fortunately, additional funding was provided by the National Research Council."
  • Ketchell, Misha (August 29, 2012). "Wikipedia will help create the most 'visible' Paralympics ever". The Conversation.
  • [1] Wikimedia Australia, source for a couple of the links.
  • dead link — http://www.paralympic.org.au/news/apc-secure-australia%E2%80%99s-paralympic-history

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