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samwilson

@samwilson@wikis.world

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 edit #OpenStreetMap and sometimes get away from the computer and into my #woodworking workshop.

Photos: Profile portrait is https://w.wiki/5yYs and profile banner is https://flic.kr/p/29K8KLh

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404 Beer Not Found?

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I want a little thing in the footer of my #MediaWiki that shows me a countdown of the job queue. I know that's because I'm doing silly things with too many queries on a server that can't cope. But still, it'd be funner than "just waiting a bit" before I smash F5. I wonder if there's an extension somewhere that'd be amenable to such a thing.

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@nemobis Oh interesting, I was going to see if there was a task for doing just that! I do remember reading something about how it's hard to report it accurately — but even an estimate can be useful. Currently I run mwcli site:info but that's too annoying.

samwilson, to Perth
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Have you ever lost your way when visiting the hospital? Come and help map it! Next mapping day out, Saturday March 16th: https://geogeeks.org/2024/0316_osm-QEII.html

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@mattcen There are various ways to record height, shape, etc. of buildings — there's not much done yet for QEII: https://osmbuildings.org/?lat=-31.96898&lon=115.81573&zoom=17.0&tilt=34&rotation=40

And then there's ways to record in the internal layout as well: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_mapping

samwilson, to Perth
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The next Geogeeks' open geospatial hack night is happening next Wednesday at Riff: https://geogeeks.org/2024/0214_hack_night.html

samwilson, to genealogy
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So have announced that they'll start requiring (but only email or SMS) for all DNA accounts soon. So I guess there's something good that's come out of the breach! Hopefully will follow suit.

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It's the time of the year for me to remember to upload #MediaWiki dumps to the #InternetArchive: https://archive.org/details/wmau_officialwiki_2023-10-22

Every time I do this I think I should automate it.

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#Firefox has crashed for me a couple of times in the last two days. My fix appears to be simple: just turn on logging, and the fault never happens now! Every time I stop logging, within a few hours it happens.

Although it also didn't happen when I was sitting by the river yesterday. Maybe I should go back to that as a last known good state?

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Scary thing:

Henry Kissinger is older than many turtles.

Even scarier thing:

Henry Kissinger may outlive some of the oldest turtles.

samwilson,
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@yakkoj the only thing that comes to my mind when I hear about Kissinger is that he's "got nicer legs than Hitler / And bigger tits than Cher".

Possibly I listened to too much #MontyPython growing up.

samwilson, to Perth
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We're heading to Mills Park in Beckenham this morning to map-all-the-things. And drink coffee. And maybe talk about PTA data importing. And generally explore the world with GPS, camera, and notebook in hand.
https://geogeeks.org/2023/1008_osm-beckenham.html

samwilson, to genealogy
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#Genealogy is often concerned with #copyright, and lots of systems only have metadata at the item level — but separate parts of an item will often have different rules applying. For example, these images are of a 1935 letter from Australia (the author died in 1963, so copyright in the text lasts till the beginning of 2034). The letter is still copyright, but the back of the envelope is public domain, as is the stamp (in Australia, they're PD when published before 1973).

Scan of a handwritten letter from 1935.
Five penny stamp from Australia, 1935.

samwilson, to Perth
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There's going to be another #Geogeeks mapping party this weekend! This time in Cottesloe. It looks like there's lots still to map there…

https://geogeeks.org/2023/0826_osm-cottesloe.html

#OpenStreetMap #Perth #Australia #events

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It's pretty great that libraries can upload their own local ebooks to Overdrive/Libby for patrons to download. can be used to create these ebooks (as explained by @Adzebill yesterday: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Related_events/Knowledge_Beyond_Boundaries#12:00_Wikisource_for_Libraries ).

Now I'm trying to find even more source material that could be suitable for this.

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It's raining! (And I'm behaving like a West Australian, thinking that this needs noting... probably doesn't, in Singapore.) #Wikimania2023

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Paulina "allows you to search for people and find out if they have freely accessible works in the public domain."

https://paulina.toolforge.org

Powered by #Wikidata.

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#Wikisource proofreading project for #Wikimania2023: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Malay_Sketches.pdf

(We'll try to do the whole thing this week!)

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Tomorrow at #Wikimania2023 is mapping day (amongst other things): https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:WikiMapathon #OpenStreetMap

samwilson, to Philippines
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The Philippine Local Laws and Ordinances Digitization Project sounds pretty great. It's getting local laws into Commons and #Wikisource. #Wikimania #Philippines

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I think my favourite search filters on Wikimedia sites are insource, incategory, and hastemplate.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Filters

samwilson,
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@krinkle You just need to listen to some 'N Sync, and it will all be made clear(text).

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To celebrate #OpenStreetMap’s 19th anniversary today, the OSM Foundation has just launched a new “Supporting” website where you can support the project by either donating some money or joining as a normal or corporate member of the Foundation.

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/

P.S. I’m not involved in this new website; just a messenger.

P.P.S. This new website replaces the old “Donate” and “Join” websites which now redirect to this new website.

P.P.P.S. I see some bugs/issues with the new website.

samwilson,
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@seav yeah, it seems like there's something weird going on with the civicrm oauth? And CORS issues with join.openstreetmap.org vs supporting.openstreetmap.org?

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Is there a map tool somewhere for viewing #Wikidata items with their #OpenStreetMap geometry? I've got a good filter in JOSM for doing it, but it's not a great way to do it, and it'd be best to have something that works on a small screen (when out photo scavenging for instance).

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Bicycle parking, capacity eight... or should that be one?! #pruneYerHedges #OpenStreetMap

samwilson, to mediawiki
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I've been adding some notes about how the new Edit Recovery feature in #MediaWiki should work: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Edit-recovery_feature#Feature_details

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