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Andy Mabbett

Personal blog · pigsonthewing.org.uk · on HN as pigsonthewingwebculture

Andy Mabbett's personal blog at pigsonthewing.org.uk covers web and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Freelance Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap consultant and Wikimedian in Residence, from Birmingham, England.

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pigsonthewing · 32 karma · member since 2011

http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted The BBC’s fundamental misunderstanding of copyright as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted How eBay could help Wikimedia Commons get more open-licensed images as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Twitter spam case study as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Open licence recordings of local government meetings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Proactively Publishing Publication Dates Could Help Facebook Fight Fake News as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Who Has the Keys to Your Online Treasure Chests? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The BBC, Regional News and Sport, and Hyperlocal Blogs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The BBC, Open Content and Wikipedia as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Idea: A tool to make it easy to subscribe to web-based lists of Twitter accounts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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