#wmhack — Public Fediverse posts

The Wikimedia hackathon a bit over a week ago was a blast, so I tried to summarize my experience in a blog post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/05/11/technical-tinkering-for-commonsdb-at-the-wikimedia-hackathon/
#wmhack #wikimedia

For the #wmhack demo, my screen recorder app was failing so I fell back to this handy shell function:

record_screen () {
file=${1:-output.mp4}
screen_size=$(xdpyinfo | awk '/dimensions/ {print $2}')
ffmpeg -video_size $screen_size -f x11grab -i :0.0+0,0 "$file"
}

#shell #ffmpeg #cli #screencast

Unfortunately the end of semester assignment for my #NetworkScience class is due the day after the #wmhack hackathon is over. I've been working on it in the morning and evening, and I haven't had time to see Milan at all. So, I changed my flight home from Monday to Wednesday, and I'll take a couple of days to be here in the city itself.

#Wikisource Export now has #OPDS feeds for Bangla, Punjabi, and Telugu Wikisources:

https://ws-export.wmcloud.org/opds/

Other Wikisources can have their own by adding sitelinks to Q102234502 (although the process of deploying them is manual for now).

#wmhack

Currently feeling a bit useless on my own project as we are heading towards implementing it directly in @inventaire, which is written in #SvelteJS, a framework I am not familiar with.

Do you think I can learn Svelte (and Typescript) during the week-end? 🙃

#wmhack

Point #OpenRefine is magic reached #wmhack

Point #OpenRefine is magic reached #wmhack

Point #OpenRefine is magic reached #wmhack

Point #OpenRefine is magic reached #wmhack

Point #OpenRefine is magic reached #wmhack

@douginamug and I are trying to debug a #Gerrit login issue in the #wmhack lobby. Looks like creating a new Wikitech account and rigourously following the tutorial doesn't let us SSH to Gerrit. Could it be related to the recent downtime? Join us on the couch in front of the registration desk! :-) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial

#wikitech #ssh #git

The #DCG201 #HackerSummerCamp 2024 Guide for the #freeculture festival #Wikimania in #katowice #Poland is now live:
https://defcon201.medium.com/hacker-summer-camp-2024-guides-part-eleven-wikimania-katowice-b4b6c19b7038

#wikipedia #wikimedia #wikidata #wikifunctions #wiki #academia @wikimediafoundation #wmhack #wmhack2024 #katowice #poland @internetarchive @defcon #fediverse #mastodon #freeculture