I was impressed recently by the progress of OpenStreetMap (OSM). The maps of most big cities (in Europe at least) are already very complete, e.g. Dublin and Brussels. Many smaller cities and cities in less developed countries are still in need of work, but the current status clearly proves that the project’s aims are practical. Read more »
After a bit of tweaking, I’m now happily using the the It’s All Text! plugin to let me to edit webpage text boxes with Emacs. It also works with other text editors. [UPDATE: Actually, my browser is Iceweasel, not Firefox. See the Mozilla software rebranding article on Wikipedia, and the IceCat project] To configure it, Read more »
Elections for one community seat on Wikipedia’s nine-person Board of Trustees will close at midnight on June 21st. I’m eligible to vote, and, for reasons I’ll discuss next week, I have a sudden interest in communiy voting. The criteria for eligibility to vote are that you have a certain number of edits to a Wikimedia Read more »