User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/09/22

Sunday 22 ==== Time zones again ==== Our preferences pages have a timezone setting, is it 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, Tech, …
 * Posted to WP:VPT

APC and Paralympics

 * "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."
 * 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
 * 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

Update Tue 1 Oct:


 * JBH presented information that LH was a paid copywriter.
 * Tender by University of Canberra Institute of National Sports Studies to Australian Paralympic Committee for project History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia (HoPAU).
 * Bidgee claimed that LH was not paid, but didn't reply to JBH's further analysis.
 * HOPAU @ London 2012 Paralympics report by LH.
 * Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Archive 21
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Steward_requests/Username_changes&oldid=19413010 "redacted per request of F--" hmm.
 * Vanished user adhmfdfmykrdyr
 * meta WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Biographies/Laura Hale