Welcome to my corner of the web, where I write words about what I'm working on, and post photographs of things I've seen.
I'm a Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and so of course my personal website is a MediaWiki wiki. 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 also try to find time to work in my workshop on various woodworking projects. Recently, that's been focused on getting my new workshop's doors built and installed.
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 more interesting mapping on OpenStreetMap.
Contact
To contact me, you can email me or find me on Twitter or the Freenode IRC network (as 'samwilson').
In other parts of the web, I'm active to varying degrees on Flickr, LibraryThing.
Blog
- Editing MediaWiki pages in an external editor (date: 2017-02-21, location: Fremantle)
- New feature for ia-upload (date: 2017-02-07 4:18:00 PM, location: Fremantle)
- Micro.blog (date: 2017-02-02 3:39:00 PM)
- Abandoned code projects (date: 2017-01-30 9:27:00 AM)
- Wikisource Hangout (date: 2017-01-23 7:43:00 PM)
- Manually upgrading Piwigo (date: 2016-12-15 4:44:00 PM)
- Reconnected (date: 2016-12-05 8:36:00 AM)
- Trello backup script (date: 2016-09-30 11:18:00 AM)
- Marking time (date: 2016-09-22 4:29:00 PM)
- Internet Archive 20th anniversary celebration (date: 2016-09-20 8:46:00 AM)
- My dream job (date: 2016-09-19 3:29:00 PM)
- Sullivan's hall workshop (date: 2016-08-31 10:37:00 AM)
- Flattening MediaWiki's categories (date: 2016-08-16 11:05:00 AM, location: Perth City Library)
- House things (date: 2016-08-07 4:00:00 PM)
- 2016-08-06 (date: 2016-08-06 9:45:00 AM, location: Subiaco)
- Bold Street Coffee (date: 2016-06-06 1:59:52 PM)
- Fremantle Carnevale website down (date: 2016-05-16 9:46:35 AM)
- Mapping while travelling (date: 2016-04-25 11:39:15 AM)
- Puerto Pollensa (date: 2016-04-25 11:07:21 AM)
- Balearia (date: 2016-04-23 8:12:28 AM)