Lucas Werkmeistertrain spotted
also now semantic satiation has set in and all I can think of is “I have a spotted” from https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/real-2
got chatted up by some Arnhem locals on the way back to the hotel, about topics like, why am I wearing a mask, am I afraid of covid, do I think there's covid in Arnhem, where am I from, are there cool chicks in Berlin, why am I wearing those cat ears, do I like fucking chicks in Berlin, they're going to fuck some cool chicks now do I want to come with them, do I like men, okay bye enjoy fucking men don't fuck them in the ass too much
thanks, great experience, 10/10 would again
oh yeah they also wanted to know which hotel I'm going to. that was the point where I switched from evasive/vague answers to full “none of your fucking business”
RE: https://wikis.world/@LucasWerkmeister/111351627028752562
I had a much better experience in Utrecht fwiw:
anyway! I'm in Arnhem for this event! should be fun, hopefully! I'm the person with cat ears, if you want to find me for working on Wikidata, WDQS, or Toolforge/Python stuff :3
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Northwestern_Europe_2026
@aharoni I think I found a bug in CLDR (relevant to the ticket I’m working on, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231755), but I can’t report it on the CLDR issue tracker (it tells me “You are not authorized to perform this operation. Please log in.” even after logging in) – could you perhaps create an issue there to let them know?
cldr’s main/lzz.xml https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/9de60d86e7/common/main/lzz.xml contains names for language codes 'en' and 'laz', not 'lzz', but the value clearly seems to refer to Lazuri ('lzz') not Aribwatsa ('laz')
@aharoni I left a comment on the GitHub pull request that (I think) introduced the issue (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/pull/4441/changes#r2930976671), but an issue in the issue tracker probably makes it more visible; if you could create it, that would be great (and then I’d link it from my GitHub comment) 🙏
(the related issue would be https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-18359)
@aharoni Gerrit change to fix it on our end (hopefully temporarily, until CLDR fix it upstream in the next release): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/cldr/+/1251311
@aharoni alright, the pull request author already created https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-19316, so nothing more to do for you :) thanks anyway!
I’ll keep working on the rest of the task now ^^
the “m3api-rest | Fixed pipeline for fetch” to “m3api-rest | Failed pipeline for fetch” pipeline
anyway that's enough hacking for today, good night 
good mornyan 
[dark souls text] piano practiced
lol
the mint chocolate I brought to the sweets table was still unopened about an hour ago (which I don't disagree with ;) [I brought other / better chocolates too :P]) now it's almost all gone!
I guess someone found what they like :3
I’m despairing over the number of people at this hackathon using “AI” tools
paraphrasing one showcase: “you might run into 429 rate limit errors because Wikipedia is being scraped a lot” gee I wonder why
(https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/, if anyone needs the link)
hackathon is over btw, I'll try to remember to post about what I did tomorrow ^^
good night fedi 
question for people who know more about Dutch trains: is this a reasonable connection for the system to have offered me? can I hope to make this change, or should I take an earlier train (30 minutes :/) for the first part?
it arrived in Deventer on time and I needed two minutes to get to the other platform, so I would've just barely made it to the connecting train under those conditions. still glad I didn't take the risk though
my main hackathon projects:
• made good progress on making language names in the cldr extension translatable on translatewiki.net (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231755) – patches are up for review
• worked together with User:Ideophagous to create Wikidata Lexeme Forms templates for Moroccan Arabic (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms/Moroccan_Arabic) and deploy them to the tool
also talked to lots of people :)
a #wmhack story: after, following a suggestion by Multichill, I played some piano before the opening ceremony to lure people into the auditorium, Ege got in touch to ask if we wanted to play some music together; so we ended up performing The House of the Rising Sun together (he's a great singer!) to open the closing ceremony \o/
my programme for the opening was: Scott Joplin – The Entertainer, and then some improvisation on Sunny (following Eugen Cicero)
and for the closing, before the song we did together, I lured people into the auditorium with Louis Moureau Gottschalk – Grande Fantasia Triunfal sobre o Hino Nacional Brasileiro (you can expect that on a piano stream at some point :3) followed by Scott Joplin – Solace and Combination March (both abridged)
arrived in Berlin Ostbahnhof 12 minutes early! \o/
RE: https://wikis.world/@LucasWerkmeister/116232677711163958
now that I’m back home and have more screen space available I’m still trying to figure out what kind of ICE train this was
based on the gray things above the lights, I guess it must be an ICE 3neo / DBAG Class 408? even though I’m still not convinced the contours are the same (most photos on 
have less of a lighting contrast there, making the contours harder to see)
also, AFAICT https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:DBAG_Class_408 has no photos of this train with the coupling section(?) open this way… does that make the photo worth uploading? 
new blog post: Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 recap https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2026/03/17/wikimedia-hackathon-northwestern-europe-2026/
(made with https://imagenerator.net/noun-verbed, of course :3)
what I’m still curious about and no train nerd has answered so far ^^ is *why* the nose section (does it have a better name? should the file be moved?) was open
it might not be clear because the exposure time is so short, but that train isn’t standing still, it’s still driving into the station and about to pass the camera. but I don’t think it had any reason to couple (the DB app says it already had four stops before Deventer: Amsterdam, Hilversum, Amersfoort, Apeldoorn). what’s going on? ^^
kai@LucasWerkmeister denke kaputt :) hier ein ganz toller thread dazu https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?003,4555817,page=1
@kawie mein lieber Scholli, in dem Thread ist ja was los… aber danke! jetzt hab ich zumindest den Begriff „Bugklappe“ *g*
(eine eigene Kategorie für Züge mit offener Bugklappe scheint es, nach anderen Dateien zu urteilen, bisher noch nicht zu geben)
@LucasWerkmeister bei dem ICE 3 früher war das gefühlt dauernd offen, bei den neuen baureihen mit dieser horizontalen klappe ist es mir zumindest noch nicht so oft aufgefallen
AntiComposite@LucasWerkmeister the coupler door open/close mechanisms tend to fail somewhat frequently. usually it fails in the closed position, but it can also fail in the open position. sometimes it's due to a birdstrike, sometimes they just break. it's not a safety item, so the train can continue running. that'd be my guess.
@anticomposite the thread linked in https://chaos.social/@kawie/116246875187644501 suggests that, if the mechanism has trouble, it might be left in the open position intentionally so that the train won’t be stuck in a position where it’s stranded on the track and also can’t be coupled to
(and also a lot of arguments about whether the open door does or does not affect the aerodynamics of the train at all)
Raymond@LucasWerkmeister Definitely!
sukkoria@LucasWerkmeister of. course.
Brooke Vibber 
@LucasWerkmeister helpful guide for the uninitiated:
ICE (train) - good
ICE (secret police) - bad
ice (cubes you put in your drink) - good
ice-9 (hypothetical form of ice crystal that is stable at room temperature) - very bad
English Wikipedia contributors, ICE T (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_T), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
taavj@LucasWerkmeister @brooke reminds me of when searching for "br 403" on duckduckgo showed an infobox for the film called ice 3
@brooke *Merry and Pippin voice [don’t remember which one]* The salted pork is particularly good.
@LucasWerkmeister certainly looks like a 3neo, and bahn.expert agrees
Dragon Vertigo
Derk-Jan 💙💛🇺🇦@LucasWerkmeister its yawning, awkward ;)
Thomas@LucasWerkmeister no train not spotted, train striped!
abby 🐝@LucasWerkmeister This one looks like it would be a lego set
Sebastian Wallroth@LucasWerkmeister I took the train 30 min earlier for same destination and it was 6 min late 🤪
@LucasWerkmeister how big of a problem will it be if you miss it?
@taavi I have a flexible ticket, so I can still get to Berlin, but on the other hand I'd lose my reservation for the second train and that one is predicted to be pretty full (haven't checked yet how long I'd have to wait for the next train or how full that one will be)
@taavi ok next train from Deventer would be 2 hours later, as I suspected, and also even fuller (completely booked)
I probably shouldn't take the risk then…
@LucasWerkmeister yep, seems smart to me
Melissa BearTrix
Inc Hulk 🧪@LucasWerkmeister I think that Japan is the only country where I would expect a short connection between trains to be safe.