By bluerasberry on 2017-01-07
The Year of Science was a 2016 Wikipedia outreach campaign managed by the Wiki Education Foundation with funding support from the Simons Foundation. The campaign had several goals, including developing science articles on Wikipedia, recruiting scientists as volunteer Wikipedia editors, promoting discussions about the culture and impact of Wikipedia in the scientific community, and integrating […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged science, Simons Foundation
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-16
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 2016-11-13
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 2016-10-15
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 2016-08-10
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 2016-07-16
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 2016-04-29
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 2016-04-13
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 2016-04-05
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