User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/11/3
Sunday 3 November 2019.
Sri
[edit]Sri has gone downhill since I was last there. Good news at least there is talk of moving it to Shri.
Rupee denominations
[edit]British India (1862–1947) coins at https://en.numista.com/catalogue/india-35.html#c_inde_britannique244.
The small-denomination copper (later bronze) coins are marked as "1⁄12 ANNA" (not written as "1 pie"), "1⁄2 PICE" (equal to 1+1⁄2 pies), "ONE QUARTER ANNA" (not as "1 pice"), and "HALF ANNA" (not as "2 pice" nor "6 annas"). There is a late holey coin from 1943–1947 marked as "1 PICE" rather than "half anna".
Victorian copper weights are 2.1, 3.0, 6.1–6.4, and 12.7 grammes, and so scale roughly with value at 2 g/pāī.
The mid-denomination coins are variously silver, cupro-nickel, and nickel-brass. They are marked "1⁄2 ANNA", "1 ANNA", "2 ANNAS", "1⁄4 RUPEE",[a] "HALF RUPEE", ONE RUPEE". Gold coins were "FIVE RUPEES" and "ONE MOHUR" (Victoria) or 15 RUPEES" (George).
Aside — the Danish Indian lead and copper coins are literally "cash money": 80 cash (kas) = 1 royalin.
The post-independence, pre-decimal Indian coins [1] have their denominations written in English and Hindi: "ONE PICE" (एक पैसा ‘ek paisaa’), "HALF ANNA" (आधा आना ‘aadha aana’), "ONE ANNA" (एक आना ‘ek aana’), "TWO ANNAS" (दो आना ‘do aana’), "1⁄4 RUPEE" (चार आना ‘chaar aana’ lit. four annas), "1⁄2 RUPEE" (आधा रुपया ‘aadha rupaya’), "1 RUPEE" (एक रुपया ‘ek rupaya’).
- ^ Exceptions to "1⁄4 RUPEE": "4 annas" George V 1919–1921 and "quarter rupee" George VI 1946–1947. The latter is also marked पाव रुपया ‘paav rupaya’.
British East India Company coins (1770–1862) attested at numista are much the same denominations as the later British India coins: "1⁄12 ANNA", "1⁄2 PICE", "ONE QUARTER ANNA", "HALF ANNA", "TWO ANNAS", "1⁄4 RUPEE", "HALF RUPEE", "ONE RUPEE", "ONE MOHUR".
Proxies and IP blocks
[edit]Was going to post this at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-10-31/Community view, but am reconsidering...
Why not make accounts IP-block-exempt by default? If you've taken the small effort to register, and haven’t done anything bad, then who cares if you use a proxy, or T-mobile, or a shared school address? Checkuser activities would be harder, since users would have more options for varying their address. Would a cool-down delay (IP block for xx days after account creation) be enough to prevent rapid-fire socks? Or would savvy people just queue up a whole bunch of sleeper accounts and let them ripen? Perhaps WMF could develop an IP-hopping service where they retain visibility into the users' source info, but good luck trying to stay one step ahead of a state-level antagonist.