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
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-14
Arrival at university Talked with Abhinav, Indrajit, and ?? from Bhopal, Kolkata, and Delhi. Lane committed to join the South Asian Meetup. Talked with Mike Peel and Joseph Seddon re GLAM and Wikibase. Both of them want federated Wikibase instances to completely catalog the collections of all museums. Lane asked about the “limits of wikidata” […]
Posted in Stockholm, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-13
Wikimania Sweden was Thursday 14 – Sunday 18 August 2019. I often type to take notes. Some notes are more organized and some are less so. I frequently take notes about the ideas which people and communities have. I wish that I could communicate more, as of course if I see the notes, then I […]
Posted in Stockholm, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimania