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
By bluerasberry on March 7, 2016
Every nonprofit organization says that they have a mission, but actually there is always another concern which they do not publicly discuss. The public facing goal is always to advance the mission of the nonprofit movement with which it is aligned. For example, an educational nonprofit organization might say their mission is to promote education, […]
Posted in non-profit, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged election, government
By bluerasberry on February 25, 2016
Lila Tretikov (known as “Lila”), executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, just resigned. The cause of her resignation was Doc James‘ request that she directly state the anticipated cost of the Knowledge Engine project and publish and discuss the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation employee satisfaction survey. She and the Wikimedia Foundation Establishment declined to provide this […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged James Heilman, money, protest
By bluerasberry on November 25, 2015
Some news outlets report that Wikipedia traffic is dropping. Is Wikipedia Being Hit By a Google Penalty?, SimilarWeb, July 2015, an article and concept which was picked up by more mainstream media Wikipedia suddenly lost a massive amount of traffic from Google, Business Insider, August 2015 Google steals over 550 million clicks from Wikipedia in […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged metrics
By bluerasberry on November 10, 2015
At the 2015 WikiConference I met Diana Straussman, chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation. We had a conversation which I would describe as having two focus points – civility and non-medical information in Wikipedia health articles. As an example in our conversation, she told me that she had a student participating in […]
Posted in education, health, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikipedia education program, WikiProject Medicine
By bluerasberry on October 24, 2015
Wikipedia is built by summarizing and citing what reliable sources already say. Academic journals are reliable sources, but often prohibitively expensive for Wikipedia contributors to access. There is a social movement called “open access” which demands public access and reuse rights from academic journal publishers. I feel strongly about this movement. I stepped up the […]
Posted in Open access, San Francisco, Wikipedia | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, library, Michael Eisen
By bluerasberry on September 15, 2015
I work for Consumer Reports. Of course I cannot speak for the organization, but I am at Consumer Reports because I care about nonprofit media, and I wish to share some of my thoughts about the state of nonprofit publishing including Consumer Reports’ position among its peers in nonprofit media. This week Rubert Murdoch purchased […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Consumer Reports, medi, public service
By bluerasberry on September 5, 2015
In early September 2015 the popular press picked up a story about what is called the “Orangemoody” network on Wikipedia. The story followed the Wikimedia community identifying about 250 fake Wikipedia accounts which were created for the purpose of promising to insert inappropriate bias into Wikipedia against Wikipedia policy in exchange for payment. I want […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged conflict of interest