Sam Wilson @samwilson@ausglam.space

I've returned to scanning A3 civil registration certificates, with an A4 scanner. :-( It's not that hard to get the two halves matched up again, and it's only text so it doesn't matter that much if it's not perfect. It's certainly a rather slow process! #digitization

The new Realtime Preview feature is now active (as a Beta Feature) on all #Wikimedia wikis. Turn it on at e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures

I never understand #Phabricator's distinction between project members and watchers. Why do members not get notified of everything? Why must they take separate action to watch a project?

All wrapped up and done with #GovHack for now (not allowed to touch the thing till after judging!) so it's time to go home. Possibly via the pub.

Part of our #GovHack project needs to query Wikidata from within a wiki page, so now we can (in Lua): https://github.com/samwilson/UnlinkedWikibase/pull/5

#GovHack day two has begun! It began a few hours ago actually, with breakfast-time paper planning, but now that coffee has come the real work can start, and hopefully the wifi will keep up.

Only 4 to go to get to 2,000 Australian place articles with population info from #Wikidata!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australian_places/Population_data

So the word on the street is that Catalan Wikipedia is great at Wikidata integration in infoboxen. But does that mean that https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B2dul:Infobox is a good infoxbox Lua module to copy to a new wiki?

woohoo, realtime preview (a new side-by-side editing preview pane) is now available on mediawiki.org!

"Name all the things!" Great point here about getting people who write for a living to name things in software (before it's written, even).

https://youtu.be/WDYQoZ-QDRM?t=946

#DocsDrivenDevelopent
@verythorough@twitter.com

It's very windy in Fremantle this morning. I've been watching the posties leave the post office, wobbling along on their bikes.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Short_Street_buildings_and_trees.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/wcwaj5/trying_to_build_a_sustainable_media_archive_site/ "I am working on a webbsite to host thousands of old family photos going back to the 1870s."

So the thing about having getEntity() on an unlinked wiki is that it's suddenly easy to do things like automatic authority control lists and {{CiteQ}}. This is totally fun.

When you use #MediaWiki InstantCommons with large images, their thumbnails can take a while to generate — and it seems that sometimes the local wiki caches this delay as the image not existing. I was getting annoyed by this last night, but come morning everything is resolved and displaying perfectly.

Right, I have a working camera and the last bit of sunlight. Clyde Fenton pics incoming.

I was just settling down to do a bit of scanning (books with photos and clippings stuck in them), but when I got the camera out to do some 'as stored' photos — its battery is flat! So I'm having a beer while it charges, and hopefully will get something done before too long.