By bluerasberry on 2016-03-24
Wikipedia’s content typically has at least okay accuracy and its audience is huge, plus its accuracy is inexpensive to improve to the quality level of any other source. Other communication channels may or may not have more accurate than Wikipedia, but almost always they serve a smaller audience, and it is expensive to increase traffic […]
Posted in New York City, research, Wikipedia | Tagged communications, survey
By bluerasberry on 2016-03-17
On Sunday 6 March, Fabian, his housemate and I went to “Saint Pat’s For All”, which is an all-inclusive Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. The complaint was that the organizers of the traditional Saint Patrick’s Day Parade restrict who can march in the parade, notably, by banning LGBT people. St. Pat’s for All is not an […]
Posted in festival, tour | Tagged Fabian, march
By bluerasberry on 2016-03-07
Every nonprofit organization says that they have a mission, but actually there is always another concern which they do not publicly discuss. The public facing goal is always to advance the mission of the nonprofit movement with which it is aligned. For example, an educational nonprofit organization might say their mission is to promote education, […]
Posted in election, non-profit, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged government, Wikimedia Foundation board elections
By bluerasberry on 2016-02-25
Lila Tretikov (known as “Lila”), executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, just resigned. The cause of her resignation was Doc James‘ request that she directly state the anticipated cost of the Knowledge Engine project and publish and discuss the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation employee satisfaction survey. She and the Wikimedia Foundation Establishment declined to provide this […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged James Heilman, money, protest
By bluerasberry on 2015-12-17
Fabian has been interested in buying a home in New York City. The situation is that for all living memory, buying a home is usually less expensive than renting in New York City because monthly payments are comparable and housing prices have gone up every year. Apartments in New York that are near transit might […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged auction, Fabian
By bluerasberry on 2015-11-25
Some news outlets report that Wikipedia traffic is dropping. Is Wikipedia Being Hit By a Google Penalty?, SimilarWeb, July 2015, an article and concept which was picked up by more mainstream media Wikipedia suddenly lost a massive amount of traffic from Google, Business Insider, August 2015 Google steals over 550 million clicks from Wikipedia in […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged metrics
By bluerasberry on 2015-11-10
At the 2015 WikiConference I met Diana Straussman, chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation. We had a conversation which I would describe as having two focus points – civility and non-medical information in Wikipedia health articles. As an example in our conversation, she told me that she had a student participating in […]
Posted in education, health, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikipedia education program, WikiProject Medicine
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-29
On Wednesday 28 October I attended a half-day of a two-day conference on “expanded access” at the New York Academy of Science. Johnson & Johnson sponsored the event and I felt that what I saw was guided by their pharma influence. “Expanded access” is a term referring to a pharma company’s provision of an experimental […]
Posted in clinical research, health, New York City, research, rights | Tagged clinical research, safety
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-26
My housemate Pat had her knee replaced on Monday 12 October. I have been surprised about her recovery. She told me that she had pain since her 20s when she had an injury playing rugby. She had an ACL replacement in response to that injury, and some disability since then. For the past 15 years […]
Posted in health, New York City, service industry | Tagged medicine, Pat Slaven
