User talk:Barek/Archive 2022

How we will see unregistered users
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When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 00:07, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;JJMC89 bot 00:03, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

12th Adminship Anniversary!
 Wishing Barek a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 14:45, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux  Talk 00:24, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee,  Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  13:18, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Lost history
Hey Barek, I don't look behind the scenes at WikiP often but at some point noticed you undid my poor effort to include some of the history of hyperlinks in bitstream/online software. A problem with the early history of the online world is that none of the sources exist anymore, by its very nature. I can only laugh at the Wikipedia history of the "first online journal", crediting the ACM. The ACM were the "officials", the profs and a few senior workers within the industry. The problem is that they weren't the leaders, the real innovators, the rebels, the bleeding edge. That was was the realm of the obsessed underlings, the hobbiests and dedicated amateurs, and the fevered-brow dropouts (viz. Gates & Woz). There were a few thriving journals within the just the Fidonet community, including Fidonews starting from 1984, as one example that has at least some kind of historical record. There were a few other nets, typically phone-line based packet-switching (as only those of us with university accounts in the 80s had access to arpanet etc). Terminal software doing bitstream-sniffing to provide formatting instructions, including document linking or menu structures rather than just plain text printing, was well under in the 80s, but not really until modem rates went above 1200bps. Once the Net became accessible to non-academic or military users from 1988-89, the packet-switching networks started declining and the the first markup and linking started to emerge in the tcp/ip bitstream world. The concept of links being detected via a primitive markup language was already well underway by about 1985-86, and became standardized around the <...>  flags. There's a reason Tim BL used the angle brackets in html; they were what he was used to in the bbs systems that had been up since the early-mid 80s, and the other Net protocols prior to the web. The very nature of digital information is ethereal and fleeting, and if no-one bothered to print or write down on paper what was happening, there exists no record. Hard drives are fragile enough but Apple II and CP/M systems ran on floppies, as did the first IBM pcs. It would require a concerted effort, teams of workers, and lots of funds to attempt to recover the early history of the online world from the late 70s through the 80s, searching out old disks in retired (or dead) people's storage lockers and basements. It will just remain a part of history lost. SmarterAlec (talk) 08:25, 11 December 2022 (UTC)