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Tantek Çelik - 2025-11-07T08:09:00-08:00

- 2025-11-07T08:09:00-08:00
Great # sessions at # #!Yesterday, Sacha Judd () reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy online neighborhoods”. That’s a great metaphor and very complementary to rebuilding your own home(page) on the web with perhaps a digital garden as well!Today, Ana Rodrigues () connected the dots from Sacha’s reminders to encouraging everyone to join burgeoning healthy online neighborhoods like:* 32-Bit Cafe ( and see their Discord & Discourse)* IndieWeb Community ( and see for Discord, IRC, Slack)Both are filled with online neighbors helping and teaching each other how to make what people want to express on and for their personal sites!Know of other healthy online neighborhoods? Let me know and I’ll add them to the IndieWeb communities page!Want to connect your online home with online neighbors?* Join the IndieWeb #Prefer events? Join a virtual Frontend Study Hall, Homebrew Website Club meetup, or the next #!Glossary and links:btconf (Beyond Tellerrand conference) Berlin 2025communities (IndieWeb) digital gardenshome (page) on the webHomebrew Website Club (HWC) online and in-person:Front End Study Hall (FrESH)IndieWebCamps - in-person and hybrid!This is post 16 of #. #← → 🔮

- 2025-11-07T02:55:00-08:00
IndieWebCamp Berlin was great! Participants facilitated inspiring sessions, and everyone made something on or for their personal site on our Create Day #.Session notes are up from day 1, recordings to follow:* Demos notes also up, recording to follow:* Want to keep up with # # participants? Volunteer Daniel has updated the IndieWebCamp Berlin feed:* Questions about sessions or demos? Ask in # chat!* This is post 15 of #. #← →

- 2025-10-31T15:14:00-07:00
🎃 Night before IndieWebCamp Berlin! Participants are (hopefully, mostly) all tucked into their beds, dreaming of what wonderful things they can brainstorm for their personal sites Saturday, and # on Sunday.Want to keep up with # # participants?Follow their feeds and a Bluesky starter pack (happy to include more for any other formats, protocols, or platforms)* We’ll add more as folks sign-in at the camp!This is post 14 of #. # # # # # 📟← →

- 2025-10-30T16:27:00-07:00
October is almost over! For all us procrastinators, still time to write a post or two to participate in # blogging challenges like:## on ####+ coding challenges:# — Many more at:* * 🎃 And tomorrow is # so consider a holiday theme for your site as well! See # examples for inspiration:* Last but not least, perhaps we’ll see some of you at # Berlin this weekend!* This is post 13 of #. #← →

- 2025-10-28T09:30:00-07:00
… speaking of badges (Wikipedia User: 20 year editor badge in my previous post) …I got the # 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest ! via

- 2025-10-27T21:30:00-07:00
Saturday was my 20th # editing anniversary.I have created:* over 25 content articles (that have survived), averaging just over 1 per year* over 100 redirects to make it easier to find pages, and to find topics which are only documented as sections of existing pages.This year I’ve created five content articles (so far). Most recently:* * * * * I have had quite the range of experiences editing and creating articles.Many of my contributions to pages eventually disappeared after iterative edits or outright rewrites. I have seen repetitive wiki edits, repeatedly undoing changes made.I have also seen others build on my edits, sometimes taking a correction I made and expanding upon it, with more citations, more details, or both.Over time I learned various techniques, or patterns for editing, especially for creating new pages, to increase their chances of survival, while also discouraging vandalism or other attacks. I have found ways of writing that somehow get other editors to show up and help defend articles.If I could summarize it in a few words, I'd say aim for short, boring, and factual content (with high-quality citations). New articles work best when they’re similar to and based on existing well-established articles, no matter how small.I have learned that it is possible to defend the accuracy of an article even if you are outnumbered, by accurately documenting erroneous additions or changes on the article’s :Talk page, along with calm and thorough refutation of those erroneous additions. Doing so makes it much easier to revert any similar changes, and point to the pre-existing analysis on the :Talk page to discourage repetitive edits.Wikipedia has a fascinating set of rules, guidelines, and mechanisms for working in the open, and especially in the context of attacks by all sorts of bad actors, whether griefers, or politicians and businesses scrubbing (or self-promoting) their image.I found this article on Wikipedia’s systems and their resilience particularly inspiring:* I believe every open source project and open standards organization can learn from how Wikipedia works and thrives, especially in the face of antagonists large and small. I certainly have.If you do not have a Wikipedia account, I recommend creating one and using it to edit so you too can learn firsthand. Make an account, then browse your areas of interest or expertise to see if you can find pages to improve. Be bold.I was proud to add the 20 year editor badge to my User page. It’s never too late to start.

- 2025-10-27T19:23:00-07:00
Numerous # breakout sessions have been proposed. * If you plan to participate in TPAC breakouts, whether in-person or remote, take a look and give the ones that look interesting to you thumbs-up 👍, heart ❤️, or rocket 🚀 reactions.For more information about TPAC 2025 Breakout sessions and how they work, see: *