Does anyone know of any Australian local history wikis? We're making a list at https://freopedia.org/#Similar_websites (feel free to log in an add anything directly).
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Sam Wilson
@samwilson@wikis.world
mastodon 4.7.3A Wikimedian from Fremantle, Western #Australia. I work for the #Wikimedia Foundation, and in my spare time am interested in local history and #genealogy, and write software that does stuff in those areas. I edit #OpenStreetMap and sometimes get away from the computer and into my #woodworking workshop.
Photos: Profile portrait is https://w.wiki/5yYs and profile banner is https://flic.kr/p/29K8KLh
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org I'm glad I started a regular donation to Codeberg just this week.
"NASA’s images should only be on a service where they can be stored in full resolution, for the long term, dedicated to the public domain — which the other social media apps of today can’t do"
Turning off Gerrit and Phabricator email notifications while on holiday is a very good thing to do. I am remembering what it is to work on only the code that I'm currently obsessed with.
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@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club I wonder how many hours of sysadmins' lives have been wasted in these last couple of years in dealing with all this crap.
I wonder what future #genealogy researchers will think of our current excitement with creating AI-enhanced images from old photos. I suspect that they'll just not trust anything we've digitized that isn't accompanied by a meaningful description of how the digitisation was done and what processing was applied.
There are so many images being published these days that just invent details! The generated images are sort of interesting, but people seem to mistake them for reality.
A cardboard tube full of #MediaWiki (old style).
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@knowprose @anildash What alternatives are there that host full-res images, allow open licensing and other good metadata management? I self-host things, but I also like to be able to recommend something other than Google photos to people.
I'm buying a ticket for #DDDPerth 2026. They want to know what industry I'm in, and the list strikes me as rather an odd breakdown of developer workplaces:
Agribusiness
Asset and Wealth Management
Banking and Capital Markets
Construction and Transportation
Defence
Education
Energy (Oil and Gas)
Entertainment and Media
Financial Services
Government
Healthcare
Infrastructure
Insurance
Mining
Power and Utilities
Real Estate
Retail and Consumer
Superannuation
Technology
Hotels on #Wikidata are like books, they have a building item (like a work item for books) and at least one hotel item (like an edition). Even when there's only one hotel that's ever been in a given building (or building complex).
"Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis" — Jonathan Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1b3hDgwNIE
I don't know if I'd recommend any set up a new #MediaWiki site these days! :-( Which is a bit of a sad thing to say.
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@raffaele@digipres.club I definitely wouldn't trust them. Are they even doing anything to make it more likely that WordPress.com will persist for 100 years?
At least the @flickrfdn@glammr.us is upfront about the challenges of what it might mean to have a site online for a century. Maybe WP are just needing more money.
I think the best answer is printing the website and putting copies of it in multiple physical archives (or at least friends' houses!). But then I'm a #latex_tex nerd. :-P
My hackathon side-project now has its first release: https://piwigo.org/ext/index.php?eid=1078
It's a plugin for #Piwigo to upload photos to #WikimediaCommons.
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@knowprose @anildash I'm not sure Pixelfed fills quite the same function as Flickr. It isn't primarily about describing and organising high-resolution photography, from what I understand.
Something like Piwigo.com is perhaps a better model (open source but offers a paid service too). It's three times the price of Flickr, which is probably a bit much for lots of people.
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@skribe@aus.social Yeah! Although I do find it a bit sad that those two are seen as in the same bundle. I nearly put myself down as that, but then added GLAM in the 'other' field. Not that I work in GLAM, but I'd like to, and Wikimedia isn't too far off. :-P
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I've been down to get some #picciesForTheWikis but the sun was right behind it and I don't think they'll look like much.
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@isagalaev@mastodon.social Yep! And if you never saw the original, you might not think to check and would just accept the 'enhanced' version as real. :-(
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@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de To "be as frugal as possible with our computing resources" is probably good advice for everything really!
We're all so used to GitHub making it easy to use resources without even thinking about it (and maybe a bit of a feeling that Microsoft is fair game for skimming a bit of cream off the top of).
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@vrandecic@mas.to @openrisk@mastodon.social @kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de That does seem to be the way of the future! :( I've done that with a couple of sites recently, but it does feel a bit like I'm just pushing traffic to the Internet Archive instead! (Because they're sites that host lots of archive scans.)
There's a long-term resilience in static sites that is somewhat comforting though (at least for the time being).
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@openrisk@mastodon.social @vrandecic@mas.to @kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de mod_evasive is only good when it's lots of the same IP addresses. But yeah it's all pretty demoralising! :( I don't blame you for just taking the whole thing private, I've been wondering the same thing, but so far have always been able to just block more and more of the expensive URLs.
Did you experiment with the HTML file cache? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache
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@openrisk@mastodon.social @vrandecic@mas.to @kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de I find blocking them from almost all non-reading pages helps a lot. There's some info at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Handling_web_crawlers#Apache
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I like the system of indexing the HTML output, rather than searching the source Markdown. The sites I'm working on have lots of content that's pulled in from elsewhere at build-time, so it's only the HTML that's actually got all everything.
What on Earth is a "peaceable re-entry"?!
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@philsuth@fosstodon.org Exactly!! And how many different categories of "do stuff with money"?!
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@kiru@openbiblio.social @raffaele@digipres.club I've seen some people suggest that organisations should offer subdomains to their members, in order to minimise the domain ownership risk.
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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social I misread this as "…nothing but nerds' need to connect with each other". 😿