Sam Wilson sw_wiki https://samwilson.id.au/ MediaWiki 1.44.0 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Project Project talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Form Form talk GeoJson GeoJson talk Module Module talk 0 4 6923 6762 2026-03-28T01:46:09Z Sam 1 6923 wikitext text/x-wiki {{#seo: | description=The personal website of a software engineer from Fremantle, Western Australia. | image = {{SERVER}}/thumb.php?f=Sam%27s_coffee_mug.jpg&width=150 }}[[File:Sam's coffee mug.jpg|thumb|left|150px|My [[coffee]] mug]] {{nowrap|'''Hello world''',}} and welcome to my corner of the web. This is where I [[writing|write]] words about what I'm working on, and post [[photographs]] of things I've seen. I'm a [[Programming|software]] engineer at the [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], and so of course my personal website is a [[wikis|wiki]] (running on [[MediaWiki]]). In my spare time I volunteer with [[WikiClubWest]] to work on Wikimedia projects, mostly around my family's [[genealogy]] and local Western Australian history (especially to do with [[Fremantle]]). I try to keep up with issues on all the [[things I maintain]] (but usually fail), as well as listing the software that I [[uses|use]]. I try to find time to work in my workshop on various [[woodworking]] projects. Recently, that's been focused on building a [[metalworking bench]], and will soon be about a set {{wdl|Q5027833|campaign-style}} drawers that's in the works. I've a good-sized [[workshop]] because I don't have a car. [[Travel]] features in my life, not because I really hugely ''want'' to go elsewhere but because I just do — and also because then I can do some interesting [[mapping]] on OpenStreetMap, and take photos for [[Wikimedia Commons]]. Sometimes I ride my [[cycling|bike]] to get there, or [[walking|walk]], but more often it's [[planes]], [[trains]] and [[ferries]]. I'm currently [[reading]] the following books: {{#cargo_query: tables=books |fields=concat( '[[', _pageName, ']] (', IFNULL(author, 'Anon'), if ( first_published, concat(', ',first_published),''), ')' ) |format=list |where=currently_reading=true |outro=. |delimiter=, and }} To contact me, you can [mailto:sam@samwilson.id.au email me], find me on [https://matrix.to/#/@samwilson:matrix.org Matrix as '@samwilson:matrix.org'] or Telegram as [https://t.me/freosam @freosam]. <span class="plainlinks">This site is on [https://webring.wiki webring.wiki]; explore other sites: [ [https://webring.wiki/previous?host={{SERVERNAME}} ←previous] | [https://webring.wiki/next?host={{SERVERNAME}} next→] ]</span> Below are my recent blog posts, and you can [[#years|jump to the bottom]] to navigate to other posts from earlier times. __NOCAT__ __NOTOC__ {{#invoke:chronology|recent}} ---- <span id="years">View older posts:</span> {{#invoke:chronology|main}} ajxoavndtrct7abuohtni5fxyd8vqxd