By bluerasberry on 2019-12-23
Wikipedia has many active features which are broken. Conventional product development practices the idea of the minimum viable product in which there is a schedule of feature rollout to give most users a narrow but working experience. With Wikipedia, anyone can integrate a new product into the user experience and if there is any oversight […]
Posted in election, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged copyright
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-23
Fabian and I went to the Charlottesville Saturday 19 October 2019 morning farmer’s market. We met Andy there, a CHUVA former resident and regular, and bought some of his dried peppers. He had grown 50 different types and was still producing peppers, and he had given some to us for Thursday night pizza. Dried ones […]
Posted in Charlottesville, service industry | Tagged crime, ecotourism
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-22
Fabian came to visit me in Charlottesville for the first time in a while on Thursday 17 October. He came to me at school then we joined Eli and Daniel at the Newcomb cafeteria for lunch. On Friday Fabian and I did a couples photo shoot with Gabriela. We talked about her photography hobby, and […]
Posted in Charlottesville, data | Tagged coffee, crime
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-17
I live in CHUVA, a cooperative housing organization for 20 people in Charlottesville, Virginia. I enjoy group housing. In the case of our organization, we share meals, have tea together, divide some costs, celebrate holidays, and do social outings. Each of us has a bedroom, then we share the several kitchens, bathrooms, and the other […]
Posted in Charlottesville | Tagged homeless
By bluerasberry on 2019-09-17
I want to regain my habit of posting to my blog. Over the past few years I have taken on an unfortunate habit of neglecting to post my blog drafts. I am always writing. I have too many partly finished drafts, maybe 90% complete, which I mostly drafted then put aside for review after sleeping. […]
Posted in personal | Tagged journalism
By bluerasberry on 2019-09-08
On Saturday 7 September 2019 I attended the 18th Annual Youth Film Festival in Charlottesville. A nonprofit organization called Light House Studio presents this. I like that there is an organization which provides a channel for youth to produce and publish films locally. Because I am a media access advocate, I liked less that all […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, non-profit | Tagged movie, youth
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-31
Consider all of the people who engage in activities in the Wikimedia platforms. The Wikimedia community values some activities more than others. I want to share my own view of what I think are the community assessments for most valuable engagement. The most valuable contribution, according to community esteem, is sharing mainspace general encyclopedic content, […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged social status
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-30
I came back from Wikimania 2019 and worked on various grant applications till now, 30 August 2019. I have been writing grant proposals and doing documentation for grant reporting. I have communication commitments in several active or proposed projects right now – the Wikimedia Foundation, Sloan, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, […]
Posted in Charlottesville, non-profit, research | Tagged grants, non-profit organization
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-30
The 2019 Wikimania reception was Sunday 18 August in the Nordic Museum. The theme was Nordic Culture and the conference organizers had prepared for us to have a traditional blot, or animal sacrifice, in the lobby of the museum. The organizers announced none of this in advance. I only came to realize what was happening […]
Posted in animal, festival, museum, religion, Stockholm | Tagged blood, vegan, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-14
A “parliament diagram” is a data visualization which communicates the composition of a parliament including details such as the party affiliation of members and the relative power of coalitions. David Richfield, user:Slashme, is the champion of this visualization, its primary developer, and an enthusiastic thinker on the concept and its applications. I talked with him […]
Posted in data, election, Stockholm, Wikipedia | Tagged election