By bluerasberry on 2018-09-16
I have been Wikimedian in Residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia since March 2018. 6 Months into this role I wanted to share an update summarizing what I do. Graduate student research with Wikimedia projects The Data Science Institute’s primary activity till now is running a masters degree program in […]
Posted in Charlottesville, education, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikipedia education program, Wikipedian-in-residence
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-29
Fabian and I visited Kruger National Park. On Wednesday 11 July we flew from Johannesburg to Skukuza Airport, which is in Kruger Park. We picked up a rental car and drove 2.5 hours to Satara Lodge where we stayed 2 nights. The night of the 12th we took a nighttime tour to see nocturnal animals […]
Posted in animal, South Africa, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged monkey, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-25
Wikimania Cape Town was 18-22 July 2018. Fabian and I went to South Africa early for tourism and to be together. We arrived in Johannesburg on Monday 9 July and he stayed till 18 July, at which time he returned to New York as I began my conference. I left at the end of the […]
Posted in rights, South Africa, Wikipedia | Tagged discrimination, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2018-06-22
Corporate forces use a dirty trick to undermine community activism: they steal the social movement with counter-propaganda by publishing media to redefine the movement goals. The way it works is that after a social movement names and defines itself, the corporate forces start publishing media using the same name but report that the social movement […]
Posted in Open access, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged consumer rights, net neutraily, propaganda, Tim Wu
By bluerasberry on 2017-11-07
Fabian and I went to see the new Tom of Finland movie on Sunday 5 November 2017. The movie told how Tom of Finland fought against the Russians in World War II, faced discrimination for being gay, then found a popularity base and international distribution network by publishing gay erotic comics in Los Angeles. I […]
Posted in gay stuff, Wikipedia | Tagged movie, Richard Knipel, WikiConference, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2017-07-02
Wiki NYC had a board meeting yesterday Saturday 1 July 2017 from 10-6pm at Ace Hotel on 28th Street. I am writing to describe the mood and focus of it. The significance of this meeting is that it is the first board reflection on our first year after having a significant budget, and looking forward […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged non-profit organization, Wiki NYC, Wikimedia chapter
By bluerasberry on 2017-06-15
I started working for Consumer Reports in 2012 and just passed my five-year anniversary as their staff Wikipedia editor. I see five years as a milestone and I started thinking about how I came to be where I am. I care about the concept called “open content” or “free culture“. I would say that modern […]
Posted in personal, Seattle, Texas, Varanasi, Wikipedia | Tagged free culture, open content
By bluerasberry on 2017-04-28
I talk with all sorts of people about Wikipedia. A recurring criticism from people outside the Wikipedia community is that the effective way to produce useful writing is by getting it from professionals and experts in the relevant field. Since Wikipedia accepts content and suggestions from anyone, critics say that Wikipedia must have lower quality […]
Posted in New York City, research, Wikipedia | Tagged police, pop culture, violence
By bluerasberry on 2017-02-18
I started following Wikipedia community organization from 2012. At that time a trend was beginning to talk about addressing online harassment, especially harassment of women by men, but at the time each instance of the problem was imagined as an independent anomaly rather than a systemic problem. By that I mean that big online communities […]
Posted in legal, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged harassment
