2015
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By bluerasberry on 2015-04-04
I have been talking with other Wikipedians about how the public can come to learn about Wikipedia’s community culture. In these discussions, we have discussed why anyone might want to examine or adopt Wikipedia culture, how people can do this if they seek to do so, and the commitments and costs of doing so. People […]
Posted in presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged videography
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-02
I was recently at a meeting where collaboration among Wikipedia, Consumer Reports, PBS, NPR, and other nonprofit media organizations was discussed. Someone mentioned these reports from a few years ago, and I did not know of them. I want to excerpt the parts of them which mention Consumer Reports or Wikipedia. Eventually I might incorporate […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, New York City, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Aspen Institute, Knight Foundation, public service, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-01
On Sunday and Monday 29-30 March there was a meeting of Wikipedians and representatives of members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That organization is best known as the consortium supporting public broadcast media in the United States, including PBS, NPR, and all of the affiliates they have in every city in the United States. […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, legal, New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged civil rights, copyright
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-19
Dorothy and I have been talking about the long-term solution to online harassment. The ideal “solution” is whatever intervention prevents the maximum amount of online harassment, paired with a satisfying support system for targets of harassment. No one knows what this would be or how it would work, so Dorothy and I have been talking […]
Posted in service industry, Wikipedia | Tagged harassment, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-18
Some people at the National Institutes of Health have long had interest in partnering with Consumer Reports in contributing to Wikipedia. On Friday 13 March 2015 some of us met there to present an editing event and to meet the staff’s request for more collaboration. As background to this, WikiProject National Institutes of Health is […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged editathon, National Institutes of Health, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-16
On Saturday 14 March I and some others met in DC to plan WikiConference 2015. I was an organizer for the event last year. It was covered a bit in external media. We organizers had met perhaps 10 times in person and done more organizing online to run a three-day conference in Manhattan for 250 […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, safety
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-13
The AMSA conference in DC ended on Sunday 1 March. Wednesday 4 March in San Antonio the conference for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics was being held. Celeste Royce, the doctor in Boston with whom I had presented a workshop last summer, had taken initiative in inviting me to present Wikipedia to […]
Posted in education, health, presentation, Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Wikipedia education program
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-01
I attended the American Medical Student Association (discussed as an acronym “AMSA”) conference in DC Friday and Saturday February 27-28. I had been wavering about going. I wanted to meet some medical student organizations to seek partnerships for contributing health information on Wikipedia, but as the organization is governed by medical students, the turnover of […]
Posted in DC, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, medical school, Wikipedia education program
By bluerasberry on 2015-02-13
In the past I have talked about police in India, as has Nandan on his blog. I want to share a story about police in America and Indian people and give some thoughts. A police car in a small city in Alabama videotaped American police attacking an Indian man around 11 February 2015. The story […]
Posted in rights | Tagged culture, police, violence
By bluerasberry on 2015-01-03
I had a peaceful holiday staying in New York. I miss my Seattle friends but the time to visit there is summer, not now, and I had fun with Fabian. On Wednesday 31 December Fabian took me to a party in Bushwick. It was in an abandoned building in a dirty part of one of […]
Posted in museum, New York City | Tagged holiday