Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-12-24/News and notes

It's a shame that Wikimedia Ru has ceased to exist! Times like these! Happy New Year everyone! ---Zemant (talk) 10:30, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

The T-shirt is pretty rad, to be honest. :) Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 12:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Still, congratulations on your new role! Oltrepier (talk) 18:05, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Pinging, , , and. Is the "Fork" section supposed to have content, or is this some sort of meta-commentary that is going over my head? – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:08, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll remove it for now. As you might imagine, getting an issue out on Christmas Eve can be a bit of a challenge. Merry Christmas! Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Definitely understandable. On that note, I'm thrilled to hear of the launch of Wikimedia TKTK! 😛 &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 15:20, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Shh, no spoilers about that, please! : D Oltrepier (talk) 18:06, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for this tool: I've just tried, and it looks like a very cool idea! Oltrepier (talk) 18:07, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

If Tails Wx passes nomination, they will have gotten the 13th admin shirt and thus that description will be wrong. ❤History Theorist❤  23:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * That might depend on your time zone and whether a crat closes the nom right away (sometimes there can be a bit of a delay there). I don't think we have many RfAs that are scheduled to end on New Year's Eve, we'll see if they're the last for 2023 or the first for 2024. :) Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 12:07, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

I wonder if the Italian MoC is miscalculating how much they'll be able to collect—and how much cultural power paywalls will lose them. According to this 2017 Morsel article, the USDA had also put the Pomological Watercolor Collection behind a paywall to offset the costs of digitization. They never came close to breaking even and after a FOIA request and some pressure from open data community members positioned in the White House, the USDA ended up making the full digital archive available, high resolution versions and all. Arguably, it has more cultural power as a free, public resource than it ever did gathering dust and obscurity behind a paywall. I know Italy has greater claim to art history than some beautiful botanical illustrations, but the Pomological Watercolor Collection anecdote alone puts doubt in my mind as to how well thought out the MoC proposal is, even from a bloodless and purely profit-driven perspective. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 20:17, 7 January 2024 (UTC)