By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
The Preventing Overdiagnosis was held at Dartmouth from 10-12 September. Consumer Reports was a sponsor of the event, as was Australia’s Bond University and BMJ. I was scheduled to speak about Wikipedia and health. There is a concept in medical literature called “overutilization” which refers to overuse of medical resources. This includes overtreatment, which is […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
There are two ways that media outreach can go. One way is that people can oppose the public’s natural behavior and run advertising campaigns and make infrastructure interventions to get everyone to do something unnatural. Definitely Wikipedia has problems, but it would take a lot of effort, advertising, and interventions to get people to use […]
Posted in health, Wikipedia
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-03
Sunday 1 September I visited the New York Botanical Garden to study and relax. There was an exhibit there called “Wild Medicine” which I wanted to see. I walked as much of the garden as I could because I was eager to see it but then also I had some reading to do, and I […]
Posted in Geneva, museum, New York City, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged botanical garden, medicine, translation
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
On Sunday 21 July I went to a conference called “reRoute” hosted by the New Economics School and held at New York University. The conference was for what I would call young leaders in the consumer movement, although the attendees would not call themselves that. I am not sure what they call what they are […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, Open access, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
I went to the Wikipedia meetup in Boston on Saturday 20 July. I was already in Boston to present to Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class, so I stayed another day and attended this. I was riding the train there and Molly User:GorillaWarfare said hello to me. I would not have recognized her because I had […]
Posted in Boston, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-29
Someone at Eli Lilly and Company was contacting Wikipedians about a partnership between Lilly and Wikipedia. Some people may not know that Wikipedia is a nonprofit project stewarded by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, and that since its founding it has taken a strong stance against hosting external advertising and against entities with a conflict of […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Eli Lilly and Company, global health, Wikidata
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-18
On the night of Saturday 14 June I met with Brian, my Wikipedian friend who just got a job at the WHO. He had been living in Geneva for a while but had not yet come to know all about his job. He was to do something at the WHO like a Wikipedian in Residence, […]
Posted in Geneva, Wikipedia, work | Tagged World Health Organization
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-15
On Thursday 13 June I left for an open access conference in Geneva, OAI8, which was to happen 19-21 June at the University of Geneva. I planned to return Sunday 23 June. I wrote to Wikimedia Switzerland to see if I could meet Wikipedians there. Gabriel (User:GastelEtzwane) responded and I met with him within hours […]
Posted in Geneva, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged Gabriel Thullen
By bluerasberry on 2013-05-14
The 2013 conference for the HIV Vaccination Trials Network (HVTN) was from May 7-9 in Washington DC. I attended. My friends from the Seattle CAB Victoria Chinnel and Lisa White came to the event. The big news was that only one week before HVTN 505, a major phase II vaccination trial, had just ended all […]
Posted in clinical research, DC, HIV, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HIV vaccine, HVTN