Hi,
due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. This allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier handling different timezones is more important. Since Wikimedians love to organize and schedule their events onwiki, often on Meta-Wiki, I wrote a tiny userscript and template that allows organizers to set up the conference program with UTC times and users can see them in their local timezone and local date format. It's of course also usable for all other kinds of pages.
It works and is useable but so far still in my user namespace: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)/timezone...
As the next step I would like to move it to the main namespace on meta and convert it to a gadget. (Later it could be copied to other Wikis, when needed.) Before that I wanted to ask for feedback. Is this something you would use? Is there anything esential missing, can you see any negative side effects, or would you like it to be renamed before people start using it? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers, M
PS: The great idea for this gadget is from Léa Lacroix.
Thanks a lot for working on this! \o/
I'll definitely use it for the next international conference I'm involved in (Celtic Knot Conference, for which I'm drafting the schedule right now). I think it would be really useful to have it as a gadget, as I don't really imagine asking our non-Wikimedians participants to "copy paste this piece of code on your common.js".
Cheers,
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 17:14, Michael Schönitzer < michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi,
due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. This allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier handling different timezones is more important. Since Wikimedians love to organize and schedule their events onwiki, often on Meta-Wiki, I wrote a tiny userscript and template that allows organizers to set up the conference program with UTC times and users can see them in their local timezone and local date format. It's of course also usable for all other kinds of pages.
It works and is useable but so far still in my user namespace:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)/timezone...
As the next step I would like to move it to the main namespace on meta and convert it to a gadget. (Later it could be copied to other Wikis, when needed.) Before that I wanted to ask for feedback. Is this something you would use? Is there anything esential missing, can you see any negative side effects, or would you like it to be renamed before people start using it? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers, M
PS: The great idea for this gadget is from Léa Lacroix.
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That's very cool! I've enabled it.
Maybe it could also look for <time datetime=""></time> elements as well, which is what the {{event}} template https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Event outputs.
Talking of events and timezones, I recently made a little TZ comparison tool: https://meetingtimes.toolforge.org/ — it's got lots of rough edges at the moment, but sort of works.
https://meetingtimes.toolforge.org/
On 10/6/20 11:13 pm, Michael Schönitzer wrote:
Hi,
due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. This allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier handling different timezones is more important. Since Wikimedians love to organize and schedule their events onwiki, often on Meta-Wiki, I wrote a tiny userscript and template that allows organizers to set up the conference program with UTC times and users can see them in their local timezone and local date format. It's of course also usable for all other kinds of pages.
It works and is useable but so far still in my user namespace: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)/timezone...
As the next step I would like to move it to the main namespace on meta and convert it to a gadget. (Later it could be copied to other Wikis, when needed.) Before that I wanted to ask for feedback. Is this something you would use? Is there anything esential missing, can you see any negative side effects, or would you like it to be renamed before people start using it? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers, M
PS: The great idea for this gadget is from Léa Lacroix.
Hi,
On 10 June 2020 20:43:10 GMT+05:30, "Michael Schönitzer" michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi,
due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. This allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier handling different timezones is more important. Since Wikimedians love to organize and schedule their events onwiki, often on Meta-Wiki, I wrote a tiny userscript and template that allows organizers to set up the conference program with UTC times and users can see them in their local timezone and local date format. It's of course also usable for all other kinds of pages.
Nice. That would be a useful tool, indeed.
I just have a doubt. Does this script by itself add information about the timezone in which the time is shown? That would be helpful to quickly identify if the time is localized or not.
It works and is useable but so far still in my user namespace: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)/timezone...
<snip>
Hi,
thanks to all your valuable feedback! @sam: I updated the tool to now (also) work with the time tag and the event template. @Kaartic: The timezone is shown in the "activation box". And if you hover on a date/time it is shown completely including the timezone. I also experimented with highlighting all converted dates, but haven't (yet) found a nice form. I also added an option so that the timezone can be shown with the date or separately. I'm open for further suggestions.
Cheers, M
Am Do., 11. Juni 2020 um 07:36 Uhr schrieb Kaartic Sivaraam < kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>:
Hi,
On 10 June 2020 20:43:10 GMT+05:30, "Michael Schönitzer" < michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi,
due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. This allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier handling different timezones is more important. Since Wikimedians love to organize and schedule their events onwiki, often on Meta-Wiki, I wrote a tiny userscript and template that allows organizers to set up the conference program with UTC times and users can see them in their local timezone and local date format. It's of course also usable for all other kinds of pages.
Nice. That would be a useful tool, indeed.
I just have a doubt. Does this script by itself add information about the timezone in which the time is shown? That would be helpful to quickly identify if the time is localized or not.
It works and is useable but so far still in my user namespace:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)/timezone...
<snip>
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