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This week’s Gazette has an announcement about Freopedia and the editing sessions we’re holding at the Fremantle Library. (That QR code, by the way, goes to http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/home/List_of_News_and_Media/November_2012/Help_promote_your_city; the code illustrating that article is for ‘Nastco stock photos’.) Relatedly, here’s an interesting article from the Smithsonian Institute about why it’s nice to edit Wikipedia with friends, [...]
[Keywords: editing, Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, Fremantle Gazette, Freopedia, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, wikis] [3 comments] [Permanent link]
I wish I didn’t know how to code. For a programmer, the solution to every problem is to write more code. But sometimes, all that is needed is to write proper words. To explain things and explore them through prose. Not to remove oneself to the meta-realm of trying to understand the general structure of [...]
[Keywords: archiving, Phoebe Ayers, printing, Programming, storage, Wikimedia, wikis, words, Writing] [One comment] [Permanent link]
The first of the November wiki-Tuesdays this evening. Four of us, and a few new articles created. No power points! But perhaps that’ll be recified by next week.
[Keywords: Fremantle, libraries, meetings, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, wikis] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve been tinkering with a QRpedia ‘plaque generator’ (freo.org.au/qrpedia) that takes a list of Wikipedia page names as input and spits out a printable set of QRpedia codes with ‘Wikipedia’ written across the top, and the article name below the QR code. The printing is a bit wonky, perhaps, but works good for me in [...]
[Keywords: Fremantle, Fremantle Gazette, newspapers, QR codes, QRpedia, Wikimedia, Wikipedia] [9 comments] [Permanent link]
Because I never make the time elsewhere to get anything done, I have decided to schedule in an hour or so — just a tiny bit of time, but regular (and here I am, for the second time) — every Wednesday afternoon at the local library, to focus on Wikimedia stuff. Not that I’m very [...]
[Keywords: Fremantle, Fremantle Society, laptops, libraries, QR codes, QRpedia, Roel Loopers, Wiki Wednesday, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, wikis, Wikisource] [4 comments] [Permanent link]
Wikisource has begun, at long last, to be able to produce export formats for its books. PDF and Epub have been made available in the last week or so, the first via the WMF-wide book creator tool (which has just started supporting the <pages /> markup that is used on Wikisource to assemble transcribed books) [...]
[Keywords: books, epub, exporting, PDF, Reading, typography, Wikimedia, Wikisource] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Today I joined Wikimedia Australia.
[Keywords: community, societies, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Australia] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am trying to get my head around all of the various places that Fremantle features (regularly, topically) on the Web. I want to figure out where the Fremantle Society’s website fits in, and what it might be used for (what might be missing from elsewhere). So I started from the outside, yesterday, and moved [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, community, Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, Fremantle Society, History, journalism, NaBloPoMo, recording, semantic web, websites, Wikimedia, Wikipedia] [One comment] [Permanent link]
The news that Flickr Commons is full prompted me, yesterday afternoon, to cycle down to Cantonment Hill to get some photos to add to the hill’s Wikipedia article. Why? Because I added a short note to Wikinews the other day about the imminent return of the hill to the FCC; and because I was reminded [...]
[Keywords: Cantonment Hill, Commons, photography, Wikimedia] [No comments] [Permanent link]
