By bluerasberry on November 16, 2016
In November 2016 I and my friend Lee went on a tour of about 10 cannabis shops in Seattle. Cannabis is legal in Washington state. Lee and I have both done regular activism toward legalization of cannabis for years, with us participating since 2001 when I moved to Seattle and him participating for years before […]
Posted in Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged marijuana, politics, Vivian McPeak
By bluerasberry on November 13, 2016
Earlier in the year Ann Matsuuchi (wiki user:Mozucat) and Ximena Gallardo (wiki user:Doctorxgc) had done a pilot project in which several of their students developed the Wikipedia article HIV/AIDS in New York City based on source material and insights collected in the Ed Koch Archives. On Thursday 10 November I visited them at their school […]
Posted in education, gay stuff, HIV, New York City, non-profit, research, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on October 15, 2016
I am happy to have been among the organizers for the October 2016 WikiConference North America. I had previously helped to organize the conference in New York and another in DC. It is nice that attendees of the previous conferences and the general Wikipedia community appreciated those conferences enough to give more support for continuing […]
Posted in DC, New York City, non-profit, San Diego, service industry, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, management
By bluerasberry on August 10, 2016
Sometimes people ask about particular Wikipedia community projects and want to use the precedent as a model for their own project. For example, in New York there are various projects including Wikipedia editing events at libraries, museums, nonprofit organizations, and other community centers. A project typically includes a group of community volunteers working with experts […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged management, meetup
By bluerasberry on July 16, 2016
Sometimes I do not find time to journal all the things that I wish I could record to remember. Here are some scatted notes and thoughts – I felt exhausted in Milan. I had been consuming maximum culture. Fabian paces himself and kept up his energy. We stayed in a bnb in a cheap neighborhood. […]
Posted in Italy, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on April 29, 2016
I think that the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is mostly the best museum in the world. It is called an art museum, but like the British Museum or the Louvre, I think of it as a museum presenting the history of various cultures in art objects. When I think of art, I usually […]
Posted in Dhaka, New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Bangladesh, Richard Knipel
By bluerasberry on April 13, 2016
On Friday-Saturday April 8-9 I participated in the The Huffington Post and Change.org Editors Lab] with Richard Knipel (user:Pharos) and a new friend, Pablo Duboue introduced to me by user:JeremyB. The theme of the event was, “Impact Journalism”, with the question to address being, “How can news organizations develop innovative and interactive ways to create […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged authority control, conference, protest
By bluerasberry on April 5, 2016
Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia? I assisted a prison inmate in placing a request for Wikipedia edits, and my action was examined in a post at The Wikipedian, which is the blog of Wikipedia commentator William Beutler. I will explain what I did, what context this action has in Wikipedia culture, who […]
Posted in gay stuff, legal, non-profit, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged crime, gay rights, prison
By bluerasberry on March 24, 2016
Wikipedia’s content typically has at least okay accuracy and its audience is huge, plus its accuracy is inexpensive to improve to the quality level of any other source. Other communication channels may or may not have more accurate than Wikipedia, but almost always they serve a smaller audience, and it is expensive to increase traffic […]
Posted in New York City, research, Wikipedia | Tagged communications, survey