Samwilson

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

I'm a Software Engineer on the Community Tech team 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) and these things on Github.

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

• Wikisource export tool: EPUB exporting from Wikisources.
• mw:Extension:MissedPages: easily redirect 404'd pages in a wiki.
• mw:Extension:RedirectManager: Manage a page's incoming redirects while editing the page.
• 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.
• mw:Extension:GlobalPreferences
• mw:Extension:Thanks
• mw:Extension:TemplateWizard
• mw:Extension:Genealogy
• Embed Wikimedia: a WordPress plugin for embedding Wikimedia URLs.
• mw:Skin:WMAU: a MediaWiki skin for Wikimedia Australia.
• mw:Extension:TimezoneConverter
• mw:Extension:UnlinkedWikibase: an extension for non-Wikimedia wikis to fetch data from Wikidata.
• mw:Extension:LinkCards
• The Realtime Preview feature in mw:Extension:WikiEditor.
• ToolDocs: a docs-as-code platform.
• mw:Extension:RenderThumbnails: an extension to pre-render common thumbnail sizes

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This user participated in Wikisource Conference 2025 held in Bali, Indonesia.