@PeterWyrm Maybe etherpad?

@uxintro @Quokka @vidak @LiangSijie @jon_dog @j I'll try harder to turn up next time!

On the internet
Persistance is Futile
- unless you don't want it

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

I've been scanning: https://wiki.samwilson.id.au/The_Black_Swan,_July_1969

@emacsen Yes I do! :-P

It's nearly cake-cutting time at the Wikidata birthday party in Fremantle!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikidata_10_cake%2C_Fremantle.jpg

i ❤️ rss

@LucasWerkmeister @legoktm @brion @danielhglus I was just searching on Phabricator today for any past ideas of setting up such a thing. Doesn't seem to be anything.

The strange items I find myself editing over breakfast: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114358931 (this one was for a citation for a death date on #Wikisource).

@brion But do they have any leather bits? And are their brass nobs artisanal?

I've returned to scanning A3 civil registration certificates, with an A4 scanner. :-( It's not that hard to get the two halves matched up again, and it's only text so it doesn't matter that much if it's not perfect. It's certainly a rather slow process! #digitization

@dimitrisk The number one thing I try to show people is how to add notes to OSM (via whatever app, but usually OsmAnd or StreetComplete).

Personally, I'm an OSM-only traveller, and it's vary rarely gotten me into any problems! (Only once did I manage to drag my suitcase all the way up a staircase in Spain only to have to drag it all the way down another set of steps on the other side! Don't worry, I fixed the map.)

@vincent @natecull I'm assuming something to do with sheep? Or is that Ed Shearing?

The new Realtime Preview feature is now active (as a Beta Feature) on all #Wikimedia wikis. Turn it on at e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures

@legoktm I know, and it does totally make sense! I just think the UI should make it clearer that being a member doesn't mean you get notified of many things.

I think Gitxxb has it better, in that watching is the more obvious/common action, and being a member of a project is a whole different thing.

@Vierkantor Very true! I just spent my fortnightly half hour stuffing around with getting an external monitor to work — and I love my Compose key remapping for caps lock!! 😛

I never understand #Phabricator's distinction between project members and watchers. Why do members not get notified of everything? Why must they take separate action to watch a project?

@uxintro @jon_dog @Quokka @vidak @LiangSijie Sounds good!

Is there any mood out there for a #Perth fedi meetup?

Tagging those who I happen to know (or at least think) live in or near Perth: @jon_dog @samwilson @Quokka @vidak @LiangSijie - boosts encouraged because I'm sure there are more of us out there...

All wrapped up and done with #GovHack for now (not allowed to touch the thing till after judging!) so it's time to go home. Possibly via the pub.