By bluerasberry on 2015-10-24
Wikipedia is built by summarizing and citing what reliable sources already say. Academic journals are reliable sources, but often prohibitively expensive for Wikipedia contributors to access. There is a social movement called “open access” which demands public access and reuse rights from academic journal publishers. I feel strongly about this movement. I stepped up the […]
Posted in Open access, San Francisco, Wikipedia | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, library, Michael Eisen
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-19
From March 14-15 the Cato Institute hosted a Wikipedia meetup. The major outcome of this event was the creation of a WikiProject to develop Wikipedia articles on US Federal Government legislation. At the same time I was attending the conference of the Consumer Federation of America, so I was only able to attend this after […]
Posted in DC, education, legal, non-profit, Open access, rights | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, meetup, Pete Forsyth
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