By bluerasberry on 2015-09-15
I work for Consumer Reports. Of course I cannot speak for the organization, but I am at Consumer Reports because I care about nonprofit media, and I wish to share some of my thoughts about the state of nonprofit publishing including Consumer Reports’ position among its peers in nonprofit media. This week Rubert Murdoch purchased […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Consumer Reports, medi, public service
By bluerasberry on 2015-09-05
In early September 2015 the popular press picked up a story about what is called the “Orangemoody” network on Wikipedia. The story followed the Wikimedia community identifying about 250 fake Wikipedia accounts which were created for the purpose of promising to insert inappropriate bias into Wikipedia against Wikipedia policy in exchange for payment. I want […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged conflict of interest
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-08
Wikimania is the annual international Wikimedia conference. This is an annual international conference for Wikimedia contributors. About 1000 people convene for the three-day main conference, in which 5 conference tracks are ongoing for eight hours. Conference tracks cover such topics as presenting individuals’ projects, reviewing community organizing plans, promoting access to information sources, developing tutorial […]
Posted in Mexico City, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-04
The Wikimedia community has a problem with harassment. The situation is that a significantly large number of people say that they would participate in Wikimedia community activities, except that they perceive the Wikimedia community to be hostile, unfair, and sometimes that it explicitly targets them for harassment. I recognize that there should be some response […]
Posted in rights, Wikipedia | Tagged culture, harassment
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-02
Every organization which recruits volunteers values their volunteers. Sometimes they even calculate the financial value of their volunteers. This works by recording the cost of a set of volunteer recruitment campaigns, noting how many volunteers become engaged because of those campaigns, then dividing the total cost by the number of volunteers recruited. I am sure […]
Posted in Dhaka, India, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged crowdsourcing, grants
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 2015-06-12
I talked with Alex Stinson (user:Sadads on Wikipedia) today about libraries and archives. The context was that Consumer Reports has a light relationship with Kansas State University because their library system holds some archives relating to the Consumer Movement, including Colston Warne‘s papers. I am not going to give context to our conversation, but I […]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
When a topic is not well covered on Wikipedia, that is often an indication that a topic is not accessible or well covered in available sources on the Internet. When I was developing a draft for a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben I searched for all the information I could find. In November I set a […]
Posted in art, India, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
I have been the primary developer of a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi, the wife of the prime minister of India. Right now the article does not exist. Soon I will move my draft into Wikipedia’s article space. I anticipate that some people will object. This article has been deleted in Wikipedia’s review process […]
Posted in India, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
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