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• Post #4345854

  Someone is postering on WGTN Kelburn campus for submissions for a new publication called "The Acropolis" based around "The Freedom Of Speech". Not a VUWSA registered club (I checked this morning). Posters in multiple versions, all in FSU colours. https://www.instagram.com/theacropolisvuw/ / https://sites.google.com/view/theacropolis-submission #FSU #FreeSpeechUnion #NZPol

• Post #4336440

  Happy Cook Islands Māori week to all who celebrate. https://www.mpp.govt.nz/programmes-and-funding/pacific-languages/pacific-language-weeks/cook-islands-maori-language-week/

• Post #4325872

  @ellie@awesomefreakingbunnies.online In these parts they give you six weeks of free name changes for the baby when registering a birth...

• Post #4182436

  I've got slides for an up coming talk I'm going, a complete beginners guide to linked data for librarians. Where are the cool kids putting slides these days? Still slideshare.com? [I don't care so much about being cool, mainly about people being able to find the slides.]

• Post #4122364

  Just had an #ANZREG proposal accepted 'Complete beginners guide to linked data' Looks like I'll need to generate some slides and arrange a practice talk. #libraries #ExLibris #wikidata

• Post #4118454

  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Korea/Open_letter_to_the_Wikimania_community_July_26,_2026/en Open letter from Wikimedia Korea about a #wikimania incident. #wmf

• Post #4101009

  Pushed my draft into the #wikipedia AfC queue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Signs_of_a_Nation_exhibition_panel_of_the_Treaty_of_Waitangi_English_text_altered_by_Te_Waka_Hourua The 'just wait and an editor will pick it up eventually' advice that I always give others turns out to be hard advice to follow. #museum #nzpol

• Post #4072597

  Please take a moment to pause this #wikimania and realise that wiki was just fine before the #WMF and will almost certainly continue to be fine after the #WMF Forks are hard because negotiating common cause with other folks is hard, but we need to be negotiating common cause anyway. If your common cause is not being reflected by WMF leadership and paid staff, have a think about why that might be.

• Post #4059595

  Watching the opening ceremony. Not really a royalist, but he's doing a better job of this than anything i can imagine Trump doing.

• Post #4051252

  Know a website that use to be on an old domain that's now hosting badware? Here's how to encode that in #wikidata:

• Post #3955983

  I have a #wikipedia draft I'd like feedback on, particularly from #museum / #gallery / #GLAM types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/Signs_of_a_Nation_exhibition_panel_of_the_Treaty_of_Waitangi_English_text_altered_by_Te_Waka_Hourua I'll be looking to submit it in the next couple of weeks. Any feedback greatly appreciated. #WMF #wikimedia #nzpol

• Post #3873861

  @Phil_Tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com Maybe they should support te reo on their platform then?

• Post #3866816

  Did a #matariki thing. Then made the mistake of checking the news.

• Post #3840015

  I see the world cup is still going on, but is there any chance that any nation can pull one out of the bag and prove themselves more corrupt than the USA? Don't the USA have this in the bag?

• Post #3756236

  What fatal diseases of vampires cause 'brief and sudden illness'?

• Post #3703806

  Looking for advice on places to ask about booststrapping a currently-dormant #WMF #wiktionary In particular, I want to get referencing and citation templates up to date. Moving content from en.wiktioary gives me things like: https://mi.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/testpage/0004 #Wikipedia #WANZ @wikimediaaotearoa@mastodon.social

• Post #3655820

  Looking for recommendations for reference extraction from PDFs in the context of retrospectively digitised journal holdings in @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social's #OJS. Want to extract the references, check them, add them to record and republish metadata to @crossref@mastodon.online with minimal fuss. Web searching was a sea of AI palp.

• Post #3501645

  Is #springshare auth down for everyone, or just us?

• Post #3478215

  New journal announcement: Archifacts is the journal of the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga Mahara. Expect retrospective digitisation to appear as time / funding permits. https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/arch/ #ojs #PeerReview #archives #NZPol

• Post #3060700

  @mcc@mastodon.social You mean who wins the games, or whose fans die the most in ICE custody?

• Post #3059083

  Separating crowd-sourced encyclopedia-building from #WMF / #WikimediaFoundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Userboxes/Ideas#Request_-_June_2,_2026

• Post #2539220

  #wiktionary folks, can you please send me your best entries? Some complete non-techies have asked for some tech help and I need exemplars to talk over on the way to a shared understanding. It's a minority language wikitionary, but examples in any language happily received. #Wikimedia #WMF

• Post #2406390

  Is there a sane single-click script to shrink all my WSL VHDX files? These are the disk images that WSL uses to run linux from and I find they frequently grow unsustainably large, usually because I download stupidly large datasets. #WSL #VHDX #windowsScripting

• Post #2279298

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• Post #2242435

  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116540180878490038 OK New Zealand, we may have beaten them with Georgina Beyer, but they're now doing multiples. We have a plan for beating this 7 November 2026, don't we? Someone please tell me we do? #nzpol

• Post #2092581

  It looks like New Zealand is going to abolish their media regulator, the Broadcasting Standards Authority. This will inevitably give the far right, liars, scammers and politicians a much looser connection with the truth. As citizens we can turn to web archiving to preserve evidence of perceived shenanigans. Go to https://web.archive.org/save/ to push a web page to archive.org. Works less well with social media and web applications than standalone websites. You can also drop a line to the N...

• Post #2069123

  Testing https://movies.pub/movie/Q919579

• Post #2006558

  Looking for someone who is reasonably familiar with both #wikidata and #wikisource to help me work out the right way to link bidirectionally between them. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q559857 is mentioned in the first paragraph of https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Municipal_and_Official_Handbook_of_the_City_of_Auckland,_New_Zealand/The_City_of_Auckland How do I encode that at each end? #wikimedia #WMF

• Post #1803034

  "Mastodon 5.0 (eta Fall 2026)" Does this naming mean that there's a six month gap between the northern and southern hemispheres getting it?

• Post #1783865

  en.wiki is having another new pages backlog drive, to check the quality of newly created pages. If you're a wikipedia editor and you're interested in maintaining the quality of the encyclopedia as a whole, you may be interested in participating. Requires the New Page Patroler right, but that's not usually an issue for established editors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Backlog_drives/May_2026 #wikipedia