By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
I have been the primary developer of a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi, the wife of the prime minister of India. Right now the article does not exist. Soon I will move my draft into Wikipedia’s article space. I anticipate that some people will object. This article has been deleted in Wikipedia’s review process […]
Posted in India, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2015-05-29
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization which acts as steward of the Wikimedia projects. It is governed by its board of 10. One of the seats is a lifetime appointment for a key member, 4 are reserved for experts and chosen in a traditional way, and the remaining 5 seats are for representatives of […]
Posted in election, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimedia Foundation board elections
By bluerasberry on 2015-05-07
Today I gave three Wikipedia presentations in Manhattan. I ought to be spending all of my time out of the office and at universities per the terms of my grant to do outreach to students, but as of yet I have not managed enough invitations to be on campus all of the time. Dorothy has […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, Wikipedia, work | Tagged hospital, PBS, WebMD
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-14
Historically the Wikimedia Foundation has applied negative outsider branding to the Wikimedia community. By “negative outsider branding”, I mean that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) prefers to describe the Wikimedia community as if they were social outcasts, and that when the WMF plans outreach, or engages with the media, or positions itself to interact with the […]
Posted in presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged branding, Wikimedia community
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-05
The New York Times just published “Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery“. The article talks about activity trackers and Apple’s software suite for reporting health information to Apple devices. It links to the story of a patient named Steven Keating who benefited from having his own health records. Keating’s “The Healing Power of Your […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights | Tagged activity tracking, privacy
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
