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 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 2018-07-26
On Tuesday 10 July 2018 Fabian and I joined a tour group which advertised trips to Soweto. The tour included a drive around Soweto and and explanation but what I really wanted was the walking tour of the place that was a slum, or shanty town, ghetto, or favela. Soweto has a long history but […]
Posted in museum, rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged death, discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-25
We went to the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. The monument is a combination of a memorial to the Dutch colonists who died in the course of various violent conflicts during their settling in South Africa, and a gallery of exhibits in which the early 20th century Dutch tell their own story the colonizing experience, and […]
Posted in rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination, monument
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-25
Wikimania Cape Town was 18-22 July 2018. Fabian and I went to South Africa early for tourism and to be together. We arrived in Johannesburg on Monday 9 July and he stayed till 18 July, at which time he returned to New York as I began my conference. I left at the end of the […]
Posted in rights, South Africa, Wikipedia | Tagged discrimination, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2018-06-22
Corporate forces use a dirty trick to undermine community activism: they steal the social movement with counter-propaganda by publishing media to redefine the movement goals. The way it works is that after a social movement names and defines itself, the corporate forces start publishing media using the same name but report that the social movement […]
Posted in Open access, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged consumer rights, net neutraily, propaganda, Tim Wu
By bluerasberry on 2016-04-05
Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia? I assisted a prison inmate in placing a request for Wikipedia edits, and my action was examined in a post at The Wikipedian, which is the blog of Wikipedia commentator William Beutler. I will explain what I did, what context this action has in Wikipedia culture, who […]
Posted in gay stuff, legal, non-profit, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged crime, gay rights, prison
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