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For two straight weeks 9 out of 10 of the top 10 viewed articles on Wikipedia were about the British Royal family. The 10th article was a newly released Bollywood film lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-09-30/Traffic_report
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My #Debian firmware GR vote is 6437215.
In order of preference:
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$ rpm-ostree override remove firefox
$ flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
The future is here!
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I ported https://apt-browser.toolforge.org/ from Python/Flask to #Rust/Rocket
It's already faster and I didn't even finish all the performance improvements on it (e.g lazy_static for regexes).
While we're waiting for the results (September 21st at the earliest), I want to thank everyone who helped with my WMF Board candidacy.
From the people who initially gave me the confidence to run, to the people who helped me get through the Affiliate round, and then the people who ran Get Out The Vote efforts for the community voting period or even just told me that they were supporting me: thank you.
A very special set of people were there every stage of the way, I can't really express in words how much I appreciate each of you. <3
Globally, voter turnout was down: only 5,955 votes this year compared to last year's 6,873. Yet, in each group of users we tracked, turnout was solidly up:
| Group | 2021 | 2022 | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewards | 47.37% | 63.16% | 15.79 points |
| mediawiki.org admins | 44.26% | 67.74% | 23.48 points |
| en.wikipedia.org admins | 22.35% | 26.41% | 4.07 points |
| NYC meetup list | 26.92% | 33.33% | 6.41 points |
| Signers of NPP letter | 29.82% | 46.35% | 16.52 points |
| [[Category:Wikipedians who use Discord (software)]] | 14.45% | 29.24% | 14.79 points |
| [[Category:Wikipedians who use Internet Relay Chat]] | 16.94% | 31.40% | 14.47 points |
Pretty incredible. Now it's at least two more weeks of anxious waiting and hopefully some time for actual wiki editing!
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Avery Brundage is Today's Featured Article on the English Wikipedia, which notes that he "fought zealously" against boycotting the Games in Nazi Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Brundage
The "Legacy" section spells it out clearly, noting he's well known as an anti-Semite, racist and admirer of Hitler.
So it's a good day for me to re-post the editorial I co-wrote in 2019 asking the USOC to remove him from their Hall of Fame: https://sjsunews.com/article/remove-brundage-from-olympic-hall-of-fame
Sadly, he's still in it: https://www.teamusa.org/Hall-of-Fame/Hall-of-Fame-Members/Avery-Brundage
