stuart yeates

Translating the Lothal Papyri on #Wikipedia

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2026-10-03 06:22:29 UTC

I love #uselessmaps Flight maps around nz are commonly wrong, presumably due to the presence of the date line and/or being +13 GMT.
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/117/375/524/348/819/292/original/34897e94aff258a7.jpg

2026-09-21 04:14:57 UTC

My memory (and google too) is failing me.
What's the name of from-scratch open-source alternative browser?
[Alternatively any current browser (or plugin) that lets you save a WARC of pages as you browse them.]

2026-08-24 09:53:55 UTC

Complete beginners guide to linked data (for librarians).
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.33320907
My presentation for #ANZREG tomorrow.
#linkedOpenData #wikidata #libraries

2026-08-17 05:09:22 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu @nprofile…469z but most content isnt in the centuries-old institutions, it's in politically exposed government departments; small institutions; private collections; etc. They can all use a backstop.

2026-08-17 04:26:19 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu @nprofile…469z
Uploading to commons is a way to ensure preservation.
A proper preservation standard would avoid the issue.

2026-08-14 20:11:15 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu
Not sure.
The momentum of the Commons is against NC.
I have no particular reason to be for it.

2026-08-14 19:59:55 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu means your screwed if your cross jurisdiction. EVery one has a different idea of what non commercial is.

2026-08-14 19:54:01 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu crossref has metadata for most dois. They have a good track record of cooperation with not for profit projects.

2026-08-13 09:59:42 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu wikispecies has a buttload of dois and wikidata can tell you which are diamond open access journals.

2026-08-12 08:23:09 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu
Just had another look at this, because it seemed like something was missing.
You don't link to wikispecies or wikidata...

2026-08-10 22:19:28 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu
"Probably a good early proof point that curation of this is hard." 💯
#digitalnz #NDF

2026-08-10 00:00:46 UTC

Kiwi #union friends, #wikepedia is organising an event to improve our coverage of unions, unionism and unionists.
I need nominations of topics that wikipedia lacks and reliable secondary sources to write those articles. Please hit me up or add to the following URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Organized_Labour/2026_Online_Campaign
#unionstrong #NZPol

2026-08-09 09:49:36 UTC

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@nprofile…vvev @nprofile…5w5c
Apparently we don't like having nice things if it means that someone with different coloured skin gets them too...

2026-08-09 05:10:06 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu
They weren't cached when I tried. It might have been just after you updated?

2026-08-08 20:37:47 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu also list a recently successfully rendered page

2026-08-08 18:33:20 UTC

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@nprofile…8atu if you have nz partners, they'll probably lwntion digitalnz filtered by license.

2026-07-24 06:54:31 UTC

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@nprofile…4fuh also useful for finding the new URL if you just have the old one...

2026-07-20 09:29:20 UTC

I have a #wikipedia draft I'd like feedback on, particularly from #museum / #gallery / #GLAM types:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/Signs_of_a_Nation_exhibition_panel_of_the_Treaty_of_Waitangi_English_text_altered_by_Te_Waka_Hourua
I'll be looking to submit it in the next couple of weeks. Any feedback greatly appreciated.
#WMF #wikimedia #nzpol

2026-06-22 08:00:02 UTC

Looking for Kiwi history or social studies teachers to give me feedback on a #wikipedia draft, I'm trying to make my writing more accessible to young adults Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/Signs_of_a_Nation_exhibition_panel_of_the_Treaty_of_Waitangi_English_text_altered_by_Te_Waka_Hourua and let me know how I can improve it.
#NZpol #NZpolitics #history

2026-05-26 21:48:03 UTC

Where's the patch to relabel the mastodon 'Post' button to 'Encyclical' ?

2026-05-25 22:42:03 UTC

Are any fedi people using Te reo Māori?
I'm keen to get some more in my feed.

2026-05-12 20:50:02 UTC

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@nprofile…wx4e
Having a quick look, this leads to wikipedia being used as a source, rather than the underlying sources.
Is this right? I'm not doing that.

2026-04-28 21:33:16 UTC

Is there anyone on here I can talk to about the #koha library system and linked data?
I'm doing some work with #LCCNs and #wikidata and right now my only real-world test case is a proprietary system but I'd like to ensure that I'm not accidentally locking out the #openSource alternatives.

2026-04-18 06:41:43 UTC

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@nprofile…uyu7 @nprofile…gydw
Did they raise those with orcids to co authorship? That would have been the real flex....

2026-04-16 21:57:29 UTC

Seeing age verification stuff happening.
I'm assuming that everyone else on here was born on 1 January 1970 too?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

2026-04-13 02:32:39 UTC

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@nprofile…xpag @nprofile…pg4v @nprofile…vvev
In the 1960's and 70's Artemisia absinthium was in fashion as a hedge plant in beach suburbs across New Zealand. If you look carefully you can still find remnants in places, which means New Zealand could make our own absinthe...

2026-03-23 06:22:25 UTC

URL-understanders of the internet, I seek your opinion on URLs of the form:
http://viaf.org/en/viaf/LC%7Cn%20%2086093034
Turns my stomach every time I see it; has anyone written about this kind of thing?

2026-03-09 01:47:48 UTC

There are three hard problems in computer science:
👉 cache invalidation,
👉 naming things,
👉 figuring why so many things are interested in your gender.

2026-03-08 09:44:40 UTC

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@nprofile…2wxk drop some meat on the shore and it'll come out and get it...

2026-03-02 18:31:16 UTC

So my late father has an article in both wikipedia and grokopedia.
Grokopedia article is hagiography, full of peacock terms and baroque decoration. It has more thorough coverage, picking up every detail, but no authority control, no machine readable content and no separation between reliable and unreliable sources.
#grokopedia #wikipedia

2026-02-27 04:38:21 UTC

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@nprofile…gydw how much new zealand taxonomy is just us folks working on wikipedia / wikidata?

2026-02-25 19:51:22 UTC

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@nprofile…gydw
"Sadly, the results are in and we detected no bats."
Yet.
The yet is important.

2026-02-24 23:07:43 UTC

Wellingtonians, grab a tshirt and head to the Adan Art Gallery on campus before 4 to screen print yourself a protest of this racist government! #nzpol
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/116/128/114/325/238/947/original/c4c272237b875055.jpg

2026-02-18 09:24:30 UTC

So I had a very draft list of 54 New Zealand #Diamond #OpenAccess journals.
Did a #wikidata query and tidied some data and updated some data and now I have a very draft list of 93 New Zealand #Diamond #OpenAccess journals.
[Actually I have a query that builds a list / csv from live wikidata]
Next up I need to tidy the list so I can circulate it to other OpenAccess folks who can suggest other places to look.
Then I'll circulate to the subject librarian and ask them for a mandate to get them in out local library catalogue (#primo).
Then I'll start proposing them for inclusion into CDI.

2026-02-10 20:05:27 UTC

New Zealand parliament is running a survey to inform their digital strategy. Includes questions about API access, etc. If that sounds like a bit of you, please complete the survey at https://www.parliament.nz/news/6b708cf9-1e3a-4b9c-bad3-31a523711e23/Online-Satisfaction-Survey---Help-us-improve-the-New-Zealand-Parliament's-online-experience?page=1&lang=en

2025-11-18 08:41:21 UTC

So there's a #wikipedia election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2025/Candidates
Anyone know if any of the candidates has taken anti-fascism or anti-racism stances, ever?
#Antifa #antiracism

2025-10-13 23:39:54 UTC

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@nprofile…t0pv
Be honest. How many 2L tubs of ice cream are there in a portion?

2025-10-01 20:35:09 UTC

An "Abducted" poster for New Zealand citizen Samuel Leason kidnapped and taken to Israel against his will.
#nzpol #WinstonPeters #HighSeasPiracy
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/115/300/811/170/017/447/original/906294edad11ba81.png

2025-05-17 06:49:59 UTC

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@nprofile…l5w8 craters of the moon (good weather only), redwood walk, tour at te puia.

2025-05-13 09:12:51 UTC

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@nprofile…5wev Thanks, got it uploaded https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/280688394
#iNaturalist

2025-05-13 02:43:32 UTC

Is there an #iNaturalist like thing that supports short videos?
I have a potentially taxonomically interesting clip that I can't upload to iNaturalist.
It's a large #insect caught in an electric fence displaying apparently pain-like behaviour

2025-04-11 00:16:48 UTC

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@nprofile…args
If you're a builder / architect with standard sized sun-baked bricks and need to get the rooms rectangular, this list is perfect...

2025-03-19 07:54:12 UTC

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@nprofile…5wev
This peripatus seems much more colourful than the ones I remember digging out of rotten tree trunks in my youth (in New Zealand).
I remember them being more a uniform blue / grey velvet colour. Is this a different species?

2025-02-10 20:16:51 UTC

#wikidata people! #library people!
Is it possible to model the banning of a book in wikidata? I want to be able to say:
Lolita (Q127149)
...
banned in <date range>
in jurisdiction <jurisdiction>
by <agency>
under <law>
reference <reference>
...
See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Modelling_the_banning_of_a_book

2025-02-09 18:22:27 UTC

#GetFediHired
We have a Library Assistant job going. It's not great pay, but I like to think we're a great place to work.
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/working-here/current-vacancies-broadbean

2025-01-17 02:22:52 UTC

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@nprofile…args calculate mean, average, std deviation, etc.
Have them run it for a data sets of size 10^2, 10^4, 10^6, 10^8 and 10^10.

2025-01-15 09:52:07 UTC

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@nprofile…frg4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:International_Image_Interoperability_Framework ?

2025-01-11 08:01:18 UTC

The #OCLC #VIAF website has been updated and the #wikidata tool that uses it has broken.

2025-01-07 08:50:46 UTC

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@nprofile…sxdw
I got a 502.

2025-01-07 01:32:00 UTC

Voting is now open in New Zealand's official bug of the year. https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/
Velvet worms! bat flies! gravel maggots! wētā! get them here...
#entomology

2024-12-31 02:13:38 UTC

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@nprofile…5wev
Nice.
Currently scanning 1960s slides of penguins for which "Cape Royds" counts as a geo-location...

2024-12-03 23:50:56 UTC

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@nprofile…5wev
do the "silvereyes, house sparrows, and bumblebees" make effective pollinators?

2024-08-26 22:56:58 UTC

Announcement for international readers: The annual New Zealand "Bird of the Year" election campaign kicks off this weekend.
If you hate birds or political campaigning, mute me for a month now.
[I can confirm that as of writing, zero of the candidates are known to be under investigation for genocide or other war crimes, but previous campaigns have seen dubious campaign tactics by numerous parties.] See https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526269/campaigns-kick-off-for-bird-of-the-year-election

2024-07-24 19:29:13 UTC

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@npub17a9…mv9a
For a Dean of Law, you show an interesting awareness of copyright...

2024-07-23 00:01:45 UTC

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@npub1hvz…mle9
What about Gangnam Style ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH1XGdu-hzQ