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I'm a Wikimedian and I run the NZThesisProject from Ōtepoti Dunedin in Aotearoa New Zealand. OpenRefine, Wikidata, Wikipedia... all the Wikis!
Inventor of WikiWashiTape. According to skuas, I am too big to carry away and too alive.
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· Mar 20
The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a Nation’s Dissertations Using Wikidata
Introduction: Libraries hold large amounts of bibliographic data, with great potential for enrichment with linked open data. The New Zealand Thesis Project explored this potential by uploading thesis ...
www.iastatedigitalpress.com
Delighted to announce that my long-awaited paper on the NZ Thesis Project is published (& is open access)! Deborah and I worked hard to write this because we would love for all academic libraries to link their data to Wikidata - this tells you why and how
www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
Ok but we should make sure we have a wealth tax too *just in case*
They aren’t going anywhere.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
December 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Ok but we should make sure we have a wealth tax too *just in case*
Three books that stayed with you this year? Mine are The Defiance of Frances Dickinson, by Wendy Parkins, a fictionalised retelling of a true story of a 19thC woman trying to get away from a brutal husband, resulting in public scandal. Then Kate Moore’s The Woman They Could Not Silence, which I
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Three books that stayed with you this year? Mine are The Defiance of Frances Dickinson, by Wendy Parkins, a fictionalised retelling of a true story of a 19thC woman trying to get away from a brutal husband, resulting in public scandal. Then Kate Moore’s The Woman They Could Not Silence, which I
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, grew up to become a single man in possession of a good fortune, and in want of a wife.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and next appears in the narrative as a Valkyrie, having joined the host of Odin’s chosen-daughters via some process obscured by a lacuna in the manuscript.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, grew up to become a single man in possession of a good fortune, and in want of a wife.
Huh. Did not realise there were more films in the Love Actually franchise
Actually Pacific Rim is a Christmas movie
December 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Huh. Did not realise there were more films in the Love Actually franchise
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This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
The World Literacy Foundation sent out a press release promoting kids books, half of which don’t exist (and it’s pretty obvious when you look at the original press release). The state of it.
I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The World Literacy Foundation sent out a press release promoting kids books, half of which don’t exist (and it’s pretty obvious when you look at the original press release). The state of it.
Rankle – a daily ranking puzzle game
Rank 6 things in 4 guesses. There's a new puzzle every day.
www.rankle.app
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Omg
Elf takes place in the same universe as Barbie.
And yes, Buddy is the CEO of Mattel.
And yes, Buddy is the CEO of Mattel.
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Omg
Almost midnight on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone! #WikiAdvent #Day24
Welcome to #WikiAdvent #Day24
Today I'm thinking about nativity scenes. If you have a nativity scene in your house, you might be adding a figure to it day by day, in which case the baby is about to appear. There are lots of types of nativity, including those in /1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativit...
Today I'm thinking about nativity scenes. If you have a nativity scene in your house, you might be adding a figure to it day by day, in which case the baby is about to appear. There are lots of types of nativity, including those in /1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativit...
Nativity scene - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Almost midnight on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone! #WikiAdvent #Day24
I neglected my #WikiADvent #Day23 post yesterday because I realised that after radishes...it finished with Nesselrode pudding, which I drafted a page for and then left sitting in limbo all year! I finally published it today...so you can now read about them. :)
Welcome to #WikiAdvent #Day23
Today I saw the Night of the Radishes on the “On this day” section of Wikipedia’s front page, and couldn’t help but click. It turns out to be an annual festival in Oaxaca where they carve giant radishes and make displays of them! /1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
Today I saw the Night of the Radishes on the “On this day” section of Wikipedia’s front page, and couldn’t help but click. It turns out to be an annual festival in Oaxaca where they carve giant radishes and make displays of them! /1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
Night of the Radishes - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I neglected my #WikiADvent #Day23 post yesterday because I realised that after radishes...it finished with Nesselrode pudding, which I drafted a page for and then left sitting in limbo all year! I finally published it today...so you can now read about them. :)
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The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?
December 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?
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It's Christmas Quiz time. 20 festive questions which are probably too hard - sorry. Please share so others can suffer
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forms.gle/MK5tb1SkK2LS...
Christmas Quiz 2025
forms.gle
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's Christmas Quiz time. 20 festive questions which are probably too hard - sorry. Please share so others can suffer
forms.gle/MK5tb1SkK2LS...
forms.gle/MK5tb1SkK2LS...
#WikiAdvent #Day12 Christmas lights….there are only 12 free to use images of Christmas lights in NZ on Wikimedia Commons! 😢
Welcome to #WikiAdvent #Day22
Today I'm thinking about Christmas lights. Specifically the over-the-top can-hardly-see-the-house-for-the-decorations type. Weirdly plenty of people do this in NZ even though sunset is after 9.30pm on Christmas Eve and it isn't /1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christm...
Today I'm thinking about Christmas lights. Specifically the over-the-top can-hardly-see-the-house-for-the-decorations type. Weirdly plenty of people do this in NZ even though sunset is after 9.30pm on Christmas Eve and it isn't /1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christm...
Christmas lights - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#WikiAdvent #Day12 Christmas lights….there are only 12 free to use images of Christmas lights in NZ on Wikimedia Commons! 😢
I misread that as “cheese, happiness and joy”.
December 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I misread that as “cheese, happiness and joy”.
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"Landfill cheese", new entry in the austerity lexicon
December 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Landfill cheese", new entry in the austerity lexicon
In relation to this original post bsky.app/profile/cfie... and this paper rsisinternational.org/journals/ijr...
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In relation to this original post bsky.app/profile/cfie... and this paper rsisinternational.org/journals/ijr...
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Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
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Beautiful song:
Lullaby, by Together for Palestine
✊❤️🖤🤍💚✊
Lullaby, by Together for Palestine
✊❤️🖤🤍💚✊
Together For Palestine - Lullaby (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Together For Palestine
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Beautiful song:
Lullaby, by Together for Palestine
✊❤️🖤🤍💚✊
Lullaby, by Together for Palestine
✊❤️🖤🤍💚✊
#WikiAdvent #Day21 just sneaking in before midnight….tucked up in bed thinking about Yule logs because just like last year it’s wet and cold again!
Welcome to #WikiAdvent #Day21
Today is wet and somewhat cold (again) so I’m thinking of warm things like fires, which led me to the Yule Log tradition. As a kid I just knew a Yule Log as a chocolate cake we got to shape, ice and decorate at school. I thought it was invented for fruit cake-haters. /1
Today is wet and somewhat cold (again) so I’m thinking of warm things like fires, which led me to the Yule Log tradition. As a kid I just knew a Yule Log as a chocolate cake we got to shape, ice and decorate at school. I thought it was invented for fruit cake-haters. /1
December 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#WikiAdvent #Day21 just sneaking in before midnight….tucked up in bed thinking about Yule logs because just like last year it’s wet and cold again!
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
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33 years ago today we buried my sister’s husband
He died when a car rounding a corner on SH1 lost control & hit him head-on
It was their eldest’s 15th birthday
The crash left 5 children without a father
My sister never recovered from the trauma of losing him this way
PLEASE take care out there
He died when a car rounding a corner on SH1 lost control & hit him head-on
It was their eldest’s 15th birthday
The crash left 5 children without a father
My sister never recovered from the trauma of losing him this way
PLEASE take care out there
December 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
33 years ago today we buried my sister’s husband
He died when a car rounding a corner on SH1 lost control & hit him head-on
It was their eldest’s 15th birthday
The crash left 5 children without a father
My sister never recovered from the trauma of losing him this way
PLEASE take care out there
He died when a car rounding a corner on SH1 lost control & hit him head-on
It was their eldest’s 15th birthday
The crash left 5 children without a father
My sister never recovered from the trauma of losing him this way
PLEASE take care out there
“It’s good for image analysis! Useful in medicine!” we get told. Yeah maybe if you’re a white man. For everyone else AI just replicates or worsens existing bias and because it’s a black box you can just ignore that!
OMFG WE SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
Color me shocked.
December 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“It’s good for image analysis! Useful in medicine!” we get told. Yeah maybe if you’re a white man. For everyone else AI just replicates or worsens existing bias and because it’s a black box you can just ignore that!
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December 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#WikiAdvent #Day20 haha it was 3C today and I got caught right in a blast of freezing rain so it’s good to know it’s just like last year! A thread about snowmen (includes “adult content” apparently)
Welcome to #WikiAdvent #Day20
Today I'm mostly thinking about snowmen! It feels a suitable topic because it’s cold and wet here today (though not quite that cold). There have probably been snowmen as long as there have been people and snow - but documentation of that is another matter. /1
Today I'm mostly thinking about snowmen! It feels a suitable topic because it’s cold and wet here today (though not quite that cold). There have probably been snowmen as long as there have been people and snow - but documentation of that is another matter. /1
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#WikiAdvent #Day20 haha it was 3C today and I got caught right in a blast of freezing rain so it’s good to know it’s just like last year! A thread about snowmen (includes “adult content” apparently)