Andy Mabbett

@Pigsonthewing
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Man of many talents - some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author of 'Pink Floyd: The Music and The Mystery' and more. Birder. Cyclist. Wikimedian. FRSA.
BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/pigsonthewing.org.uk
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing
Websitehttps://pigsonthewing.org.uk
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5882-6823

For privacy reasons, I use a Microsoft Hotmail address for some purposes.

When I log on to it, it displays the account's verification address as an optional method of confirming my ID.

That shows my personal domain, and so would link the address to me, for any attacker trying to log in.

This happens in new private windows, so is not cookie based.

There doesn't seem to be an option to turn it off, or to select the option to verify by password as the default.

@Edent I've never used Ko-Wis Donen col. Are they any good?
@marielgm Many Happy Returns!
Pages that link to "Template:Unreferenced section" - Wikipedia

@Edent They tend to get replaced with a section-level or article-level tag instead.

After more than a decade, the prize-winning™ ORCID plug-in for WordPress, which I conceived and Roy Boverhof kindly and skilfully coded, has been updated, with significant improvements, and new features.

Use this if you have a WordPress blog and you or your commenters use ORCID iDs

https://pigsonthewing.org.uk/orcid-plugin-for-wordpress/

ORCID plugin for WordPress — Andy Mabbett, aka pigsonthewing.

Andy Mabbett has worked on a WordPress plugin to add ORCID identifiers to author profiles and user comments in WordPress blogs

Andy Mabbett, aka pigsonthewing.

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/

#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded! Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and brilliant - we are small, simple, and differently brilliant. But, over…

Terence Eden’s Blog
@Edent I voted blockquote, but I would also appreciate at least one scan, maybe with a chapter heading, to illustrate the font, page layout, etc.,

Six years and 4 months after I requested it, we now have GeoJSON download from Wikidata queries!

KML & GPX should be available soon, too.

[works best on desktop; mouse over right-hand edge to get menu with download link]

https://w.wiki/EWcA