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I'm mostly an open content geek: recording all that can be in the digital memex (i.e the Wikimedia universe); mapping and walking in Fremantle (for OpenStreetMap); striving for a bit of simplicity; and now and then building bits of wooden furniture by hand.

I'm also on: Wikisource, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, Stack Exchange, Reddit, ORCID, GitHub, WordPress, and MediaWiki.
Mapping

I've been contributing to OpenStreetMap since 29 April 2008; my username is Sam Wilson. I'm currently living somewhere on this map:
Categories

Exploring: I like to go for rambling, aimless walks, though bush or suburbs, and sometimes I post here the words and pictures (and GPS traces) that I collect on these walks.

Miscellaneous: Everything else. 'Apropos of nothing', as they say.

Open content: I edit on various Wikimedia projects and other wikis, and occasionally post here about whatever I'm working on. I am usually [[User:Samwilson]] on all projects.

Programming: I am a software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and in that capacity and as a volunteer contribute to a few open source projects (MediaWiki, WordPress, Piwigo, ...). I write about these things here when I can, working things out, announcing updates, and musing on how things ought to be done.

Reading: 'Reading' in the broad sense, but usually to do with texts that are made of text.

Status updates: Tweets, dents, toots, Facebook statuses... from wherever they come (or to wherever they go), this category is the complete archive of them all.

Woodworking: This blog began as a way for me to document my workshop practice when I was at the ANU school of art in Canberra. Now my life has moved away from working at the bench, but I still post about the small projects that I do get to work on, and the joy that I find in working wood by hand.

Writing: Putting words onto paper or screen, sometimes in code form but more generally English.
Recent Posts
September 2018
re: Antisemitic hack hits map used by Snapchat and Citi Bike
August 2018
What LGA is it in?
"giving men a voice"?!
Embedding Wikimedia URLs in WordPress
Flattening going wrong
Blogging and rolling
Start blogging and subscribing to each other's Atom feeds!
re: Public art lost for future generations
Embed Piwigo 0.3.0
Goodbye Dreamhost
Piwigo Embeds (for WordPress)
Sorting duplicates in Piwigo
July 2018
The world wide success that is XML
Vote with sausage; help the P&Cs
WTFM is fun

Earlier

View posts prior to July 2018
Recent Comments
- 2018-09-23: Teleworking (blog news themeforest)
- 2018-09-08: What tools are changing our world next? – Luis Villa (justpaste.it)
- 2017-04-23: Sorry, Apple Inc., I’ve met something I like more than you (Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (gen. 5) – Sam's notebook)
- 2017-03-28: Returning (again) to WordPress (Daniel Harvey)
- 2017-03-20: How to kill WordPress (Returning (again) to WordPress – Sam's notebook)
- 2017-01-30: Wikisource Hangout (Sam Wilson)
- 2017-01-23: Wikisource Hangout (Nemo)
- 2016-05-21: Puerto Pollensa (Nicholas)
- 2016-01-19: ‘Perth 23’ next Friday (Sam Wilson)
- 2016-01-19: ‘Perth 23’ next Friday (Morethangrass)
Index

In descending order of frequency of use.

Fremantle Wikimedia wordpress books Miscellaneous Reading work Wikisource archiving Canberra writing Blogging websites Woodworking MediaWiki transport Coming events technology place wikis Planet Freo Addressbook plugin technology photography Programming software databases Bicycle A Place of One's Own gardening world wide web dichotomy Investigation plugins OpenStreetMap PHP Linux backups Tabulate Drupal Wikipedia social networking quotations storage cafés libraries Piwigo university People Speed Tools Placeblogging code WebDB Kohana Fremantle Society Ubuntu data lab notebook Making posts written when drunk Exploring woodwork community MySQL genealogy collaboration design Semantic MediaWiki system administration Things Facebook how I write email IBM internet documentation NaBloPoMo cycling heritage web Hamilton Hill files Open Source ebooks coffee Kobo extensions DokuWiki beer Flickr Chickens politics ANU coding History tuggeranong exploration art school SQL laptops RSS feeds meetings non-fiction Subversion articles Internet Archive hosting walking quiet bugs bookbinding words URLs Printable WeRelate meetups ontology photos Wikidata lectures family Railway Arts and Crafts (movement) photographs cars boredom keyboard vs. pen Image Flicker plugin Bookkeeping plugin development images writing in public view urbex sawing planing Windows recording trees mapping Commons freedom Lenovo news Twitter Freospace Dave Winer exporting cloud storage Github graphics trains ereaders WeRelate scripts configuration blogs testing proofreading Project Gutenberg GITenberg Features Perth YouTube indieweb releases embed-piwigo Little Creatures treenails dovetails a chair in which to sit technique AuDA ACT Greens address books food Australian Computer Society Telework Soetsu Yanagi The Unknown Craftsman boxes Truth to Materials correspondence sharpening wood manifesto boring posts shipping 2XXFM radio podcasts workshop newspapers cataloguing Free Culture Quakerism LibraryThing PDF The Co-operative Food Shop sorting voting travelling themes TwentyTen Fremantle City Council journalism The Guardian ThinkPad FreoWiki houses punctuation Java future jQuery FICRA Carrington Street nature sheds open standards fiction filesystems Western Australia epub typography activism git version control Spearwood binding QR codes Roel Loopers QRpedia Fremantle Gazette dates cmd DOS printing servers art Clontarf Road Beaconsfield water Kobo Mini reviews W. B. Kimberly syncronization living movies building hacking Right Ordering BBC markdown lightweight markup languages LaTeX gadgets bags elections family history organising SemanticForms definitions guerilla preservation furniture ORM modules preservation typing Swan River ArchiveTeam FOSS Views links importing CSV maps planning Wiktionary Rosie O'Gradys pubs coding standards AtoM Penguin Classics literature upgrading videos PhpFlickr Flickr2Piwigo XML embeds

Microblog
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On the groyne at South Beach (2018-08-22)
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Surely there’s some trick to making untitled entries make sense in RSS? Seems annoying at the moment (but maybe I just need to tweak WordPress a bit?).
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Here’s a wall that will last more than 50 years (but require more maintenance in that time). Stone wall near Alaior, Menorca (2016-04-22)
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I’m working on a WordPress embed plugin for easily adding Piwigo photos to posts, in the same way Flickr photos can be now.
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Terrific day today at a WikiClubWest meetup at the State Library. Not big numbers of us but we got lots done on linking Trove newspapers to Wikidata, with the help of the Mix-n-Match tool.
Random photos

Friday 3 March 2017:
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Monday 19 December 2016:
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Date unknown:
Railway through Manning Park

Sunday 12 March 2017:
Wikimedians taking photos in Fishing Boat Harbour

Wednesday 27 May 2015:
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Sam Wilson <sam@samwilson.id.au>
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