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 2016-07-16
Since visiting Italy and seeing Ancient Greek art, Roman art, and Renaissance art I have been thinking about gay art. Classical artwork contains a lot of nude imagery, and so does Renaissance artwork. Western culture since classical times has avoided discussing sexuality, and consequently, there has been a disconnect between high art and the values […]
Posted in art, gay stuff, Italy | Tagged Caravaggio, Saint Sebastian
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
I was in Venice on Thursday 16 June. The city flooded unexpectedly, disrupting regular activities, and I imagined that that day was the last day for Venice to exist. I have heard that in contemporary times, people imagine the apocalypse and end of things more commonly than people in other times. The end of Venice […]
Posted in Italy | Tagged disaster, Venice
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On Wednesday 15 June we went to Venice. Venice is a city of waterways, but it is also a regular boring city on the water. All tourists go to the island part of Venice, but there is another part of Venice on the Italian mainland. I learned this because there is a trainstop there. I […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Venice
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On 10 June when we arrived at our apartment in Florence our host presented us with a map and some visiting suggestions. Among other things, he recommended that he have dinner at Santo Spirito, which is a plaza where people hang out at night and there are also restaurants there. We decided to go there […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Florence
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On the evening of Thursday 3 June Fabian and I began a vacation to Italy. Wikimania is in Northern Italy later in the month, so I had planned to go to Italy for that. Both of us arranged our work for a pause and talked about what we wanted to do, and we agreed that […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Rome
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