Samwilson

I am also elsewhere on the web, at: samwilson.id.au, wikis.world/@samwilson, codeberg.org/freosam, github.com/samwilson, t.me/freosam (Telegram), ….

I'm a Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. (Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, but this is my personal account. Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation.) My WMF user account is User:SWilson (WMF).

I'm currently working on these things on Phabricator (recently finished).

MediaWiki extensions that I help maintain:

• Genealogy: a parser function for easier linking between parents, siblings, partners, and children.
• MissedPages: quickly redirect 404'd pages.
• RedirectManager: manage a page's incoming redirects while editing the page.
• TimezoneConverter
• UnlinkedWikibase: an extension for non-Wikimedia wikis to fetch data from Wikidata.
• LinkCards
• RenderThumbnails: maintenance script to pre-render thumbnails at configured sizes.

Skins:

• WMAU: a skin for Wikimedia Australia's wiki.
• Freo: for Freopedia
• SimpleText

Some other things I've worked on in the Wikimedia universe (in no particular order):

• Wikisource export tool: EPUB exporting from Wikisources.
• commons:Commons:Commons:SVG Translate tool: a tool to translate text in SVG images.
• Wikisource proofreading contests: a tool to help with running Wikisource contests.
• Wikisource:Module:Author: a Lua module to retrieve authors' metadata from Wikidata and display and categorise accordingly on Wikisource.
• IA Upload: a tool to upload DjVus of Internet Archive items to Commons.
• Google OCR: a tool and gadget adds a Page-namespace toolbar button that will derive text from the current page's image, via Google's Cloud Vision API OCR service.
• The Google OCR tool was replaced four years later by a general OCR tool that supports Google and Tesseract OCR engines.
• MediaWiki Backup: a backup script for MediaWiki running on Linux.
• mediawiki-feeds: a tool to generate RSS and iCalendar feeds for pages in MediaWiki categories.
• XTools: a user-, edit-, and page-statistics tool for MediaWiki.
• A two-month stint at the State Library of Western Australia, with the WA Branch of Wikimedia Australia.
• Embed Wikimedia: a WordPress plugin for embedding Wikimedia URLs.
• The Realtime Preview feature in mw:Extension:WikiEditor.
• ToolDocs: a docs-as-code platform.

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I am active to some extent on Wikisource, Commons, Meta, MediaWiki, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and Wikiversity.

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Cet utilisateur a participé à la conférence Wikisource 2025 à Bali en Indonésie.