Sam Wilson @samwilson@ausglam.space

@brion But do they have any leather bits? And are their brass nobs artisanal?

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

@dimitrisk The number one thing I try to show people is how to add notes to OSM (via whatever app, but usually OsmAnd or StreetComplete).

Personally, I'm an OSM-only traveller, and it's vary rarely gotten me into any problems! (Only once did I manage to drag my suitcase all the way up a staircase in Spain only to have to drag it all the way down another set of steps on the other side! Don't worry, I fixed the map.)

@vincent @natecull I'm assuming something to do with sheep? Or is that Ed Shearing?

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

@legoktm I know, and it does totally make sense! I just think the UI should make it clearer that being a member doesn't mean you get notified of many things.

I think Gitxxb has it better, in that watching is the more obvious/common action, and being a member of a project is a whole different thing.

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?

@uxintro @jon_dog @Quokka @vidak @LiangSijie Sounds good!

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

@nemobis I did find it, yep! Seems cool. But I think I agree that there's a different sort of thing wanted for managing a photo collection — definitely needs to integrate to the fediverse though! I did have a brief look at making a fediverse plugin for Piwigo… but didn't get very far! 🙂

@quiddity no mediawiki?! Outrageous!! I haven't used a one-click install for years. Good old cpanel :-)

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!