User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/11/3

Sunday 3 November 2019. __NEWSECTIONLINK__

Sri
Sri has gone downhill since I was last there. Good news at least there is talk of moving it to Shri.

Rupee denominations
British India (1862–1947) coins at https://en.numista.com/catalogue/india-35.html#c_inde_britannique244.

The small-denomination copper (later bronze) coins are marked as "$1/12$ " (not written as "1 pie"), "$1/2$ " (equal to $1 1/2$ pies), "" (not as "1 pice"), and "" (not as "2 pice" nor "6 annas"). There is a late holey coin from 1943–1947 marked as "" rather than "half anna".

Victorian copper weights are 2.1, 3.0, 6.1–6.4, and 12.7 grammes, and so scale roughly with value at 2 g/pāī.

The mid-denomination coins are variously silver, cupro-nickel, and nickel-brass. They are marked "$1/2$ ", "1 ", "2 ", "$1/4$ ", "", ". Gold coins were "" and "" (Victoria) or " (George).

Aside — the Danish Indian lead and copper coins are literally "cash money": 80 cash (kas) = 1 royalin.

The post-independence, pre-decimal Indian coins have their denominations written in English and Hindi: "" (एक पैसा ‘ek paisaa’), "" (आधा आना ‘aadha aana’), "" (एक आना ‘ek aana’), "" (दो आना ‘do aana’), "$1/4$ " (चार आना ‘chaar aana’ lit. four annas), "$1/4$ " (आधा रुपया ‘aadha rupaya’), "1 " (एक रुपया ‘ek rupaya’).

British East India Company coins (1770–1862) attested at numista are much the same denominations as the later British India coins: "$1/2$ ", "$1/12$ ", "", "", "", "$1/2$ ", "", "", "".

Proxies and IP blocks
Was going to post this at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-10-31/Community view, but am reconsidering...

"Why not make accounts IP-block-exempt by default? If you've taken the small effort to register, and haven’t done anything bad, then who cares if you use a proxy, or T-mobile, or a shared school address? Checkuser activities would be harder, since users would have more options for varying their address.  Would a cool-down delay (IP block for xx days after account creation) be enough to prevent rapid-fire socks?  Or would savvy people just queue up a whole bunch of sleeper accounts and let them ripen?  Perhaps WMF could develop an IP-hopping service where they retain visibility into the users' source info, but good luck trying to stay one step ahead of a state-level antagonist."

Timeless report
meta:Grants:Project/Timeless/Post-deployment support/Final