This year, Paris was the host city for Wikimania and just a direct train away, I was able to participate in person. Overview As usual, I used the learning pattern Documenting your event experience, continuously documenting what I was doing,…
[…] is almost related to one of my themes in 2024, about the Fediverse. But it is wider than social media and is triggered by the current geopolitic situation in the […]
Like many previous years, I have some sort of resolutions for 2026. Learning from my over ambition last year, I will do it very differently on some parts this year. But let’s start with something I will not change, I will keep everything ab…
Like many previous years, I have some sort of resolutions for 2026. Learning from my over ambition last year, I will do it very differently on some parts this year. But let’s start with something I will not change, I will keep everything ab…
Like many previous years, I have some sort of resolutions for 2026. Learning from my over ambition last year, I will do it very differently on some parts this year. But let’s start with something I will not change, I will keep everything ab…
Time to review my progress again, and this has been about as a productive quarter as Q3 (which is much less than Q1 and Q2). This quarter was less travel but higher intensity in work which gave kept spare time fairly low. There were also so…
I just published the last quarter follow up of the year, and together with the Q1, Q2 and Q3 it’s time to reflect on the entire year as a whole. When the year started I was really inspired by the idea of writing down my goals like this and
Last week WikiconNL 2025 was held in Leiden. I joined and made two contributions besides enjoying being there; a lightning talk and a podcast. Program-wise, I gave a lightning talk about the new Charts extension. I recorded it myself with a…
Last week WikiconNL 2025 was held in Leiden. I joined and made two contributions besides enjoying being there; a lightning talk and a podcast. Program-wise, I gave a lightning talk about the new Charts extension. I recorded it myself with a…
Today, Wikidata turns 13! 🎉 I am bringing a few small gifts. Two of them were already described in the Hackathon blog post I made earlier this week, but I’ll mention them again. First, it was the sparql-minimizer tool, that can make your q…
Last Saturday, there was a one-day mini hackathon at the Wikimedia Nederland office in Utrecht. Just like the last time I went to one of these, I wanted to summarize the things I hacked on. As before, the atmosphere was great: relaxed and i…
Last Saturday, there was a one-day mini hackathon at the Wikimedia Nederland office in Utrecht. Just like the last time I went to one of these, I wanted to summarize the things I hacked on. As before, the atmosphere was great: relaxed and i…