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
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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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
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
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
Hotels on #Wikidata are like books, they have a building item (like a work item for books) and at least one hotel item (like an edition). Even when there's only one hotel that's ever been in a given building (or building complex).
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
Turning off Gerrit and Phabricator email notifications while on holiday is a very good thing to do. I am remembering what it is to work on only the code that I'm currently obsessed with.
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
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
My hackathon side-project now has its first release: https://piwigo.org/ext/index.php?eid=1078
It's a plugin for #Piwigo to upload photos to #WikimediaCommons.
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
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
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
"NASA’s images should only be on a service where they can be stored in full resolution, for the long term, dedicated to the public domain — which the other social media apps of today can’t do"
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
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
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
I'm buying a ticket for #DDDPerth 2026. They want to know what industry I'm in, and the list strikes me as rather an odd breakdown of developer workplaces:
Agribusiness
Asset and Wealth Management
Banking and Capital Markets
Construction and Transportation
Defence
Education
Energy (Oil and Gas)
Entertainment and Media
Financial Services
Government
Healthcare
Infrastructure
Insurance
Mining
Power and Utilities
Real Estate
Retail and Consumer
Superannuation
Technology
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
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
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
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
The Spirit of Tasmania is in Freo for the weekend, on its way to Melbourne.
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
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
I wonder what future #genealogy researchers will think of our current excitement with creating AI-enhanced images from old photos. I suspect that they'll just not trust anything we've digitized that isn't accompanied by a meaningful description of how the digitisation was done and what processing was applied.
There are so many images being published these days that just invent details! The generated images are sort of interesting, but people seem to mistake them for reality.
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
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
"Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis" — Jonathan Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1b3hDgwNIE
I don't know if I'd recommend any set up a new #MediaWiki site these days! :-( Which is a bit of a sad thing to say.
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
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
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
#Pagefind is pretty great! I've just added it to a site, took all of ten minutes. (I mean, probably I've done something wrong, but it seems to work well so far!)
I had been relying on DuckDuckGo for single-site search results, but there's just so much that seems not to be indexed that way. (DDG is still the no-JS fallback.)
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
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
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
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
A cardboard tube full of #MediaWiki (old style).
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
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
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
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
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
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