By bluerasberry on 2013-04-29
From April 26-28 Lori and Dominic, staff Wikipedians for a Children’s Museum and the National Archives, hosted a “GLAM Boot Camp” in DC. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. They announced it months in advance and I reserved my room and booked my travel as soon as dates were posted, but […]
Posted in DC, Open access, presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-22
Saturday and Sunday April 20-21 I attended the annual conference of Students for Free Culture held at the New York Law School. At the end of the conference there was an organizational meeting in which the board proposed and got approval to change the name of the organization from “Students for Free Culture” to “Free […]
Posted in computer, legal, New York City, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-28
On his blog, statistician for the Wikimedia Analytics team Erik Zachte asked, “Which single Wikimedia metric would inspire you most?” Here is my response to his blog post. I want page views for specific sets of articles, and I want this data presented in such a way to call for people to respond to it. […]
Posted in research, Wikipedia | Tagged metrics, statistics
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-25
Wikipedia Day 2013 in New York City was held on Saturday 23 February at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts. So many people I wanted to see were there, including most of Wikimedia NYC, Mike Christie and Jami Mathewson from the Wikipedia education program, Adam Hyland user:Protonk who has helped me in the education […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Eric Hellman, Jake Orlowitz, Jami Mathewson, Jennifer Baek, Mike Christie, Tom Sulcer, videography
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-24
I arrived back from India on Saturday 16 February. Monday was President’s Day so I did not go to work. Tuesday I returned to work and prepared for the Choosing Wisely phase II press event. I had left Varanasi in good health but I think I ate bad food either at the airport or on […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, fundraiser
By bluerasberry on 2012-12-24
Marcus and I went to Philadelphia on Saturday 22 December. I wanted to meet Smallbones to talk about a collaboration between the Khan Academy’s Smarthistory program and Wikipedia and to meet with UseTheCommandLine and Ocaasi to talk about instances of the campus ambassador program at medical schools in Portland and San Francisco. Wiki Med just […]
Posted in New York City, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged disaster, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell
By bluerasberry on 2012-10-16
I am working for Consumer Reports on a project to improve the quality of health articles on Wikipedia. This is part of an educational outreach campaign called Choosing Wisely. There is a large amount of information about Choosing Wisely on the Internet – just lately I realized that hundreds of news sources have been covering […]
Posted in education, health, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Choosing Wisely, conflict of interest
By bluerasberry on 2012-07-25
I attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC. It was a very productive experience and I made a lot of friends there. On Thursday 12 July I gave my presentation, “Research institution collaboration”, as part of a panel. I was in the conference track sponsored by the Office of e-Diplomacy in the Department of State. Both […]
Posted in DC, education, Wikipedia, work | Tagged conference, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-13
Richard Knipel ([[user:Pharos]]) took me to the Museum of Modern Art the night of Friday 11th May. On Wednesday 9 May I was at a conference at Consumer Reports for the Choosing Wisely program, and at this conference I met collaborators in the program and came to understand what the program would mean to them. […]
Posted in art, health, museum, New York City, research, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Choosing Wisely, coffee, Consumer Reports, Museum of Modern Art