Good post from Jim Nielsen today:
The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/other-peoples-websites/
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?
"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
#OpenStreetMap is going to turn 18 years old very soon!
To see what parties are available in your region, check this page. Nothing there? Why not organise something yourself. 😄
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_18th_Anniversary_Birthday_party
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."
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.
After four years, I've put 10 reasons down on why Twitter users should move to @Mastodon without losing their twitter
friends. Sound weird? Let me explain.
https://medium.com/@posty/mastodon-dont-stop-using-twitter-cd2441900243
I've finally started making a todo list of things that need fixing with the #Wikisource Category Browser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/tool-ws-cat-browser/
There are now 1,076 Australian place articles using Wikidata population values! (Not that I'm obsessively editing Perth suburb articles or anything.)
This is part of a recently project to make it easier to keep Australian population data up to date in Wikipedia: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Populating_Wikipedia:_New_tool_integrating_Australian_Census_data
Terrific meetup today with Perth Wikimedians. It's been a while since the last one! About ten people turned up, despite the rainy weather. 😃
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perth_meetup_seventy-three.jpg
Next meetup will likely be Sunday 21 August…
A Wikimedian from Fremantle, Western Australia. I work for the #Wikimedia Foundation, and in my spare time am interested in local history and #genealogy, and write software that does stuff in those areas. I also edit #OpenStreetMap. Sometimes I get away from the computer into my #woodworking workshop. #fedi22