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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
December 2018
Circular feeds
In a café in Berkeley
Test at 6:57PM
November 2018
Market Bar
Another non-hacking hack
Turn off the other things
Flickr to reduce their free plan to 1000 photos
October 2018
Markdown, Alphasmart
Personal Relationship Manager
Families to Rottnest
WP tags connected to Wikidata
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

Earlier

View posts prior to August 2018
Recent Comments
- 2018-10-28: Families to Rottnest (Ron Wilson)
- 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)
- 2016-01-05: Shimano SG-X Chainrings (Sam Wilson)
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 photography Addressbook plugin technology software Programming PHP databases Bicycle A Place of One's Own gardening world wide web dichotomy Investigation plugins OpenStreetMap 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 Flickr Things Facebook how I write email ANU IBM internet documentation NaBloPoMo cycling heritage web Hamilton Hill files Open Source ebooks coffee Kobo extensions DokuWiki beer Chickens politics 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 computers 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
Reply to this 2 days ago:
I can’t believe how well I’ve been sleeping this week. It’s such a nice feeling to wake up and find that it’s morning and not the middle of the night for once.
Reply to this 3 days ago:
Firefox gave me an OPML file of all my feeds. I imported it into my feed reader, who’s feed was one of the live bookmarks. Now I think it will all implode as it eats it’s own tail…
Reply to this 2 months ago:
I didn’t know there was a US version of Dirk Gently! It’s quite good so far.
Reply to this 2 months ago:
One of the things people like most about social media I think is the feedback that one gets when people like a post. That doesn’t happen on one’s own blog (or at least, very much less often), and actually I find it massively relaxing. I’m probably talking into a silent void here, and no one’s […]
Reply to this 2 months ago:
I didn’t know there’s a public ical feed for every meetup.com group. The URL is like http://api.meetup.com/WordPress-Perth/upcoming.ical (with the group name inserted there). That’s cool.
Random photos

Saturday 23 May 2015:
2015-05-23_1033

Sunday 3 September 2017:
2017-09-03 1541_1

Sunday 11 September 2016:
20160911_105747

Wednesday 1 January 2003:
Graduation exhibition

Tuesday 30 January 2018:
SS Wyola at low tide
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Sam Wilson <sam@samwilson.id.au>
Fremantle, Western Australia Australia 6163
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