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 2018-10-28
At WikiConference North America 2018 I chatted with Jackie Koerner / user:JackieKoerner about wiki professionalism in research and university collaborations. We both want for universities around the world to routinely and continuously collaborate with Wikipedia to do research to everyone’s mutual benefit. Wikipedia offers the benefits of a popular media channel, and universities have expertise […]
Posted in other, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged ethics, WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2018-10-28
I was happy to help organize and present WikiConference North America 2018 in Columbus Ohio Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 October 2018. This was the fifth iteration of this annual conference. I had been a core organizer for 2014 in NYC, 2015 in DC, and 2016 in San Diego, and have been happy to have […]
Posted in presentation, research, Wikipedia | Tagged WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2017-04-28
I talk with all sorts of people about Wikipedia. A recurring criticism from people outside the Wikipedia community is that the effective way to produce useful writing is by getting it from professionals and experts in the relevant field. Since Wikipedia accepts content and suggestions from anyone, critics say that Wikipedia must have lower quality […]
Posted in New York City, research, Wikipedia | Tagged police, pop culture, violence
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-13
Earlier in the year Ann Matsuuchi (wiki user:Mozucat) and Ximena Gallardo (wiki user:Doctorxgc) had done a pilot project in which several of their students developed the Wikipedia article HIV/AIDS in New York City based on source material and insights collected in the Ed Koch Archives. On Thursday 10 November I visited them at their school […]
Posted in education, gay stuff, HIV, New York City, non-profit, research, Wikipedia | Tagged library
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 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 2015-07-22
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit organization which compiles the results of medical research and publishes summaries of the collected findings. Cochrane is widely trusted because they are able to take a long-term view to their reporting, which leads to their publications being conservative, broad, and acknowledging of all major perspectives. Additionally they do […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, Open access, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Cochrane, Wikipedian-in-residence
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 2015-03-01
I attended the American Medical Student Association (discussed as an acronym “AMSA”) conference in DC Friday and Saturday February 27-28. I had been wavering about going. I wanted to meet some medical student organizations to seek partnerships for contributing health information on Wikipedia, but as the organization is governed by medical students, the turnover of […]
Posted in DC, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, medical school, Wikipedia education program