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RT @AlbinPCLarsson
Help us gather map-related ideas and tasks for the #Wikimedia Hackathon!
#WMHack #OpenStreetMap #Wikidata
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_@_Wikimedia_hackathon_2022
https://twitter.com/AlbinPCLarsson/status/1524337423030919169
low-key upset that the road realignment I've made in openstreetmap hasn't made it to the tiles used on https://democracysausage.org/ . That slightly shifted road is Super Very Important to...
ok it's important to nobody. But it hurts my eyes dammit.
Or less coffee. Or more whisky? At any rate, I seem to think I need more database tables!
I'm at that stage of a new project where I could make ridiculous architectural blunders and give myself no end of work in the future. But this is also a hackathon, so I guess I just keep hacking and hope for the best? I didn't sleep well, and now I'm making a concept called a "langver" which is a given language-version pair of a project's documentation. Perhaps I need more coffee…
While the new community members section of the IndieWeb newsletter is just a tiny subset of people who are joining the IndieWeb movement by actively adding themselves to the wiki, it's been encouraging to see expanding growth both here and in the broader web (even Tumblr) and Fediverse space since Musk announced the acquisition of Twitter.
Here's to more positive growth to a healthier and happier online social experience.
Plain text is interop on steroids. Many respondents reported using multiple different apps on diff platforms concurrently. Easy with plain text. Next to impossible with your rich text solution
Even those who had settled on a single app had been habitual switchers in the past
Your JSON-based file format? Used by a single app with maybe a couple of open source widgets floating around supporting it? So far away from being in the same ballpark that it might as well be a joke.
I'm out mapping Freo addresses in #openstreetmap. Trying to make it easier to geolocate the FSPS1978 pics. I still want to find an old UBD though (probably a pre-1955 one that is PD, but a 1978 one would be great for reference).
Anyway, have stopped at The Local to replenish my surveying feet.
I had a thing pinned to my Twitter once that said something like "host nothing yourself, but put things in public places and make sure they're easy to back up (and back them up)." I feel like I'm coming back to that idea, with things like Commons, Internet Archive, and Github central to how it works these days. The fediverse of course fits that idea. Even Flickr does, in a way. The general problem is one of interoperability, but the tradeoff is reduced fragility.
Sometimes, it depresses me the amount that the Wikimedia world uses things like Google docs, Slack, and other proprietary platforms to create content. It's usually not stuff that'll end up on the projects (although it often is), but more it's the work around that. The organising stuff, and communication.
It feels like it's all just being lost to the wind, and the history is going to be very hard to read.
B Shed navigation light reflected in the windows of the Fremantle Port Authority building:
Good Morning!
Wow, over 200 people have joined the https://fediverse.info/explore/people directory since it launched a day ago 🥳 #fediverseInfo #fedi22
Looks like there was once a redirect for http://www.pictureaustralia.org/ but it's now broken. It's still used as a schema URI (or at least, in this thing I've got here it is) and so my checker script is complaining.
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