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Congratulations to @robertsky! 🎉 Robert, who became the 2025 Wikimedian of the Year earlier this year, is now a finalist for the Singaporean of the Year 2025! 🇸🇬

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singaporean-of-the-year-finalist-meet-the-internets-janitor-whose-fingerprints-are-all-over

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Singaporean of the Year finalist: Meet the internet’s janitor whose fingerprints are all over Wikipedia

Volunteers like Mr Robert Sim keep the online encyclopedia Wikipedia alive and accurate. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Robert Sim 2d ago

@LucasWerkmeister @legoktm uhhh.. please don't read too much into it. I was compiling a list of holidays at the start, and it obviously skipped passed me. If anything, I would have put Qing Ming Festival as well if I had known then that the globe was to last this long. I initially thought it was till March.

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Robert Sim May 13, 2024

while waiting for flight home after #eseap2024, did an impromptu update to #OpenStreetMap to add a new signalised pedestrain crossing that I saw being built. so new that the satellite imagery isn't uploaded yet. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/151255155

Changeset: 151255155 | OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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Robert Sim May 13, 2024

chlod

May 13, 2024

impromptu OpenStreetMap workshop at the Le Meridien lobby while we wait for our flights !! #eseap2024

Robert Sim May 8, 2024

next flight out for ESEAP Conference in 5 hours... I have yet to repack my stuff (laundry washed and dried), and sleep. on the upside, photos for #wmhack 2024 closing is up at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2024_day_3

Category:Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 day 3 - Wikimedia Commons

Robert Sim May 7, 2024

The first of two flights was late... However when checking the previous flights, it seems to be a common occurrence... Barely had the time to walk over to the other gate at Munich, let alone shop duty free. Sweating much... I guess I am the only guy sweating in the holding area now. Hopefully the connecting flight is on time.

Robert Sim May 7, 2024

wmhack was a blast. did a proof of concept to funnel requests from Wikipedia to local Citoid server so that citations can be made for websites that are otherwise blocking wikimedia server IPs. Now to finetune the setup and simplify instructions, so that editors can run their own setup easily.

next activity: ESEAP Conference 2024 at Kota Kinabalu. Effectively, I will have a layover at my home city.

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