http://wikiangela.com/blog Angela Beesley Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:33:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I pretty much gave up blogging this year except for a post about a talk I gave in Sydney and two about our wedding photos and new house. Instead, I made a few hundred posts to Twitter and some to Facebook. But here's a round-up of the year. January We started the ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/end-of-2009/ I love this picture. It's a part of a visual representation of a talk I gave at the NSW Knowledge Management forum on Monday evening. Drawing by Simon Banks. Photo by Jye Smith. Source:  Flickr. http://wikiangela.com/blog/wiki-talk-in-pictures/ Now that I have a personal blog as well as this one, I wondered about moving my "end of year" post there, but now it's the 3rd, it seems traditional to have it here too, so I'm cross-posting. For previous years, see end of 2006 and end of 2007. January Tim and ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/end-of-2008/ Launched on Wikia this week is a new wiki to provide a 3rd party versioning system for Obama's transition site, change.gov. The site was created by Silona Bonewald and Brian Gannon of the League of Technical Voters in response to many suggestions that this needed to happen, especially since it ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/change-wiki/ I'm pleased to announce that my husband now has a blog. After years of telling Tim he ought to have one, he finally decided that our new VPS should probably be used for more than my own 2 blogs and 3 wikis! Please visit tstarling.com for his first post, on ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/tims-new-blog/ It was nice to see "wiki" as the 5th fastest rising search term here in Australia in Google's 2008 zeitgeist which was published this week. Wiki was also amongst the top 10 rising search terms in The Netherlands (5th), New Zealand (5th), Switzerland (6th), Italy (8th), Sweden (8th), Finland (9th), and ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/searching-for-wiki/ Sorry - I couldn't resist the title. Those were the 4 most popular queries made at Wikia Search at the time of our pre-alpha launch in January. Wikia Search relaunched today (see the press release). Our search team have made some amazing improvements since January. Not only does it "suck less" ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/google-wikipedia-sex-test/ Tim proposed to me on Saturday night in a romantic setting outside the Sydney Opera House overlooking the Harbour Bridge. We're planning to get married in NSW this year, around the time of our three year anniversary. Here's a picture of the ring. It's white gold with three Moissanite stones. I wanted ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/im-engaged/ I love the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest. The 2007 results were recently announced. I voted for Henri Camus' storm at Pors-Loubous. Here are top 22 images. The width is proportional to the number of votes each received. ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/wikimedia-commons-picture-of-the-year-2007/ Thinking of writing a blog post about the Wikimedia Commons picture of the year contest reminded me I had an unpublished draft post about 2007. Like my end of 2006 post, here's a summary of what happened last year. January I celebrated New Year at my sister's house in England, with my ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/end-of-2007/