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  • wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct
    • "Encyclopedia Frown". Auerbach, David (11 Dec. 2014). Slate.
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    • "Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide". Koebler, Jason (17 May 2016). Vice.
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    • "Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.". Julia Jacobs (8 April 2019). The New York Times.
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Volume 20, Issue 6

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This week's article for improvement is: Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2024/18/1

Motto of the day :

How many Wikipedia editors does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but anyone can change it back.

Tip of the day...

Time-saving links: the "pipe trick"

Are you tired of having to type long links to targets, and then having to write out most of the link again to hide the namespace? Simply put a pipe ( "|" ) at the end of the link, like so: [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]], which turns Wikipedia:Tip of the day into Tip of the day. This trick also works with parentheses – [[colon (punctuation)|]] becomes colon, and comma – [[San Francisco, California|]] becomes San Francisco.

Read more:

Watchlist insufficient?:

  • Wikipedia:Syndication
  • MediaWiki API
    • Above have hard limit on number of entries provided & thus may require frequent polling
  • m:User:Hedonil/XTools

Other stuff

  • User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill — incredibly helpful tool which automates the task of filling-out text for bare URLs used as references

This bucket of bolts

  • $ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org — telnet to Wikipedia. (m:telnet gateway) Telnet bridge is currently offline. :(
  • Server Admin Log (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
  • Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services (status.wikimedia.org)
  • WMF Status Dashboards - perf mon (gdash.wikimedia.org)
  • Wikitech (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
  • Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
  • Wikimedia Code Review (gerrit.wikimedia.org)
  • Wikimedia Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

Propaganda

This user is a participant in WikiProject Accessibility.
WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue)
This user contributes using Slackware Linux.
This user hacks happily with Emacs.
This user is a licensed amateur radio operator.
Dsprc runs NetBSD.
This user plays Pokémon Blue.
This user is on a Wikipedia Adventure
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This Yeti is a member of the Church of the SubGenius. Praise "Bob"!
!@..This user slashes through the ASCII dungeons of Dungeon Crawl.

Quotations related to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs at Wikiquote

Works related to Anarchism at Wikisource

Media related to Mass Surveillance at Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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Eben Moglen sketches the history of copyright law as a form of industrial regulation, and analyses how the changes in technology have thrown the roles created by those laws into crisis.
Yochai Benkler discusses the growth of user autonomy, the possibility to be makers of our culture rather than remain merely passive recipients, as was the norm in the industrial system of information production.
Trailer for Laura Poitras documentary Citizenfour.
(view or download from Commons here)
Edward Snowden speaks about the NSA leaks, in Hong Kong. First published in The Guardian.
(view or download from Commons here)
Edward Snowden & Daniel Kahn Gillmor discuss free software, surveillance, power, and control of the future. Preceded by address from John Sullivan, FSF executive director.(view or download from Commons here)
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive explains their operations and demonstrates Scribe Machines.


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