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As you may have heard, Wikimedia Foundation wikis (including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikibooks) now have the “unified login” feature enabled for users with the sysop bit. UL is the feature formerly known as “single-user login” (SUL), and it allows eligible users of one wiki to log onto any other WMF wiki with the same username [...]

Still here, just busybusybusy with work and school and chorus and Wikipedia-related things. Posts to come later on today and tomorrow, as I have time to write them. (This post’s title is an homage to the song that’s been kicking around my head all weekend. In my head, though, it’s the climax of a rockin’ [...]

I know that the news has had many reports of flooding in Missouri and the rest of the Midwest. Just wanted to say that the city of St. Louis is fine; most of the really bad flooding is either on the edges of the metropolitan area or in outlying rural areas that are generally downstream [...]

The LA Times’s article about the Wikimedia Foundation’s funding (read it quick before it goes to archive) has reanimated the undead prospect of advertising. It’s one of the oldest topics in Wikipedia circles, and it spawned one of the earliest project forks, and it still won’t die. Proponents of ads-on-wiki argue that ad content won’t [...]

Happy Leap Day, everyone. February 29 is just such an odd thing. I blame Pope Gregory XIII, because clearly this whole “leap year” thing is all a Vatican plot to keep Easter in March or April. OK, fine. It might not actually be a “Vatican plot” — though that did get your attention, haha — [...]