I've been in Europe for three weeks and hardly found any #OpenStreetMap things to edit at all — it's all just so complete (at least as far as this Aussie can tell; I'm sure locals have lots to add). The other day I did find a road that turned into a dirt track, so I've at least updated that! https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/151866062#Salzburg
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.
@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.
So #Ancestry have announced that they'll start requiring #2FA (but only email or SMS) for all DNA accounts soon. So I guess there's something good that's come out of the #23andMe breach! Hopefully #MyHeritage will follow suit.
#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?
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
#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).