stuart yeates

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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.

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

2025-09-06 21:09:15 UTC

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@nprofile…args
For those playing along at home, what's the link to the paper?

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

2025-03-19 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?

2025-02-12 09:07:31 UTC

#wikidata people! #library people! #NewZealand people!
I'm trying to model censorship in New Zealand in wikidata. Please have a look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Modelling_the_banning_of_a_book and my exemplar the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132218611

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