By bluerasberry on 2021-11-15
I tried explaining something in video by webcam which is new for me, but I want to try more often. I sorted notes in my head, rehearsed out loud once, then recorded. I watched it and thought it was fine, so I published it. I wanted to start a conversation on demographic profiling in the […]
Posted in data, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged demographics, profile, Scholia, WikiCite
By bluerasberry on 2021-06-03
Someone asked for my thoughts on this early draft of “Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic” at the preprint repository bioRxiv. I look at lots of such papers and often have the same thoughts about them, so I thought I would share my views here to list how I think about medical research on […]
Posted in health, Wikipedia | Tagged sickness
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 2019-08-31
Consider all of the people who engage in activities in the Wikimedia platforms. The Wikimedia community values some activities more than others. I want to share my own view of what I think are the community assessments for most valuable engagement. The most valuable contribution, according to community esteem, is sharing mainspace general encyclopedic content, […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged social status
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
On Wednesday 14 August 2019 I talked with Lodewijk about Wiki Loves Monuments. He asked me to avoid saying anything firm about the project before talking to others, and to ask Multichill in particular. What follows are messy notes! Avoid quoting, and assume that there are errors here! A tenth anniversary is special. A ninth […]
Posted in art, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged contest, monument, Wikimania
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
By bluerasberry on 2019-03-22
There is a 2008 comic book, Umbrella Academy, which contains a joke about the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy (JFK).In 2019 the comic became a video series and presented the Kennedy assassination joke again. I liked the comic and I recently watched the video series. The joke is incidental, but since the joke […]
Posted in Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conspiracy, death, policy