KnitMeAThneed

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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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KnitMeAThneed@thneed· 27d

And finally the museum of natural history. I think even Baby Globe is beginning to look tired!

Tiny Baby Globe and very large rhinoceros

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· 27d

Followed up by Notre Dame….which amazingly was hotter than outside!

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· 27d

#BabyGlobe speaks more than 300 languages….me not so much! So a trip to the English language bookstore Shakespeare and Company was in order #Journeytowikimania

Baby Globe waiting for the bookshop to open, impatiently

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· 28d

Took #BabyGlobe to the amazing Musee de Cluny today to admire the lady and the unicorn. Bit hot so we scratched our Notre Dame plans and retired to the hotel for more citronnade! #Journeytowikimania

Baby Globe reclining on an art book in an air conditioned bar

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· 29d

Sigh too tired to remember the photo

Baby Globe reclining against a much needed lemonade

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jul 13

We made it to Changi. Baby Globe is in better shape than I am, about to drink the biggest cup of tea I can find!

B B Globe relaxing in the gardens at Changi shopping area

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jul 12

#BabyGlobe is all checked in to Singapore for the next step in the #journeytowikimania looking comfy!

Baby Globe reclining in a neck pillow a few sizes too large. Then again a globe doesn’t really have a neck…

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jul 12

First stop on the #journeytowikimania is Christchurch, to pick up some reading material for #BabyGlobe (and also because getting out of Dunedin in winter can be tricky)

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jul 12

Time to begin the #journeytowikimania #BabyGlobe

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jun 28

Quite excited there’s going to be a Wikineedles meetup at #Wikimania this year! Getting prepped…#Wikidata

Wikidata stripes embroidered on a white background

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jun 12

And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had

Maria in The Sound of Music looking very cheerful while singing Tears for Fears’ Mad World

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Jun 11

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New Save the archway lecture theatres tshirt

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 31

Architecture nerds, highly niche NZ merch now available! wildwaves.digitees.co.nz/shop/categor...

'Save the archway lecture theatres 1974' design featuring while outline projections of the theatres from 4 sides, on black

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 30

It’s all just broken now

Google search claiming that two days of the week have the word car in them - Saturday and Thursday

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 23

Star Trek image with words “There is no planet B*. *Citation needed”

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 15

Ha. Even greener than I thought!

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 10

the passengers and crew aren't wearing masks with any kind of seal as far as I can tell. Unforgivable if they are being made to believe they are protected by these apnews.com/article/hant...

crew members mostly wearing surgical masks

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 10

anything with a 95 in the name is good with me....but baggy blues? ughhhh

Cruise ship passenger inside, wearing a surgical mask

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 7

Why don’t people vote? I think of it a little like a free lottery ticket. Voting closes 12 May, Ōtepoti Dunedin, then we’ll find out if we won a great council member or…..not!

My hand putting the family’s votes into the orange voting wheelie bin. A sign says put your votes in here by 12pm Tuesday 12 May

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· May 2

Ugh try again with an image

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Apr 30

Bullshit science with a bullshit headline. (It’s Colossal ofc and it’s bluebuck).

Newspaper headline reads “The animal about to be brought back from extinction with Jurassic Park technology”, with photo of masked scientist doing shit with blue liquid in pipette and red-filled test tubes (LOL).

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Apr 13

Lunch #breadsky

We are looking at a loaf of bread, on a cooling rack

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Apr 4

Students in the university library:

Poll on a library touchscreen. “You want to learn about a new topic, where do you start looking for information? Search engine (6), library website/catalogue (3), AI (45), Wikipedia (3)

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Apr 1

Yep

Screenshot of the beginning of the Wikipedia article for the Moon showing it is capitalised

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Mar 21

MyFamilyHeritage site has a few hits that look likely

Newspaper report of visit of Miss Ethel Ardi from to Montana in 1936

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Mar 7

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Feb 28

#NZ image help please! Someone uploaded this photo to Wikimedia Commons as a city street in Dunedin, 1930s-40s. I don't recognise it. Is it Dunedin but some of the buildings are gone, or is it mislabelled? (original Archives NZ doesn't say Dunedin: "Uncaptioned photograph of city street" by AEFZ)

Black and white photograph of a city street, wide, with 1920s/30s cars parked outside stone buildings. There are people silhouetted sitting underneath a portico in the foreground

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Feb 27

@emilywrites.co.nz OMG

The traumatising scene from the Neverending Story where Atreyu is trying to pull his horse Artax from the swamp. Spoiler: he fails

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Feb 17

Yay my phot was reused in a magazine! Boo they forgot to do any kind of attribution! Opportunity to give some advice about copyright, I guess.

Photograph of a page of a magazine which has reused a photo from Wikipedia without credit to the photographer. (Image is of Otago Farmers Market)

KnitMeAThneed@thneed· Feb 13

I forgot to take a photo after I added QR codes for all the games. Oh well!