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 2019-08-14
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
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-12
The process elected Trump to be President of the United States on 8 November. Lots of people are publishing reactions. I am from Texas, and because I know the culture there, I always felt that Trump was a respectable candidate from the perspective of my culture of birth. Most of my friends are in Seattle […]
Posted in election, New York City, Seattle | Tagged harassment, politics, president, violence
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 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