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Wikimania 2010
Free Knowledge in the City of Freedom. Staying out until dawn was not uncommon. I am writing wrote this on the plane back from my first Wikimania. Wow! An amazing experience! First off, I couldn’t have...
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Joseph Reagle‘s Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a major step forward for understanding “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” and the community that has been building it for...
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Wikimedians are awesome (and WP10 Pittsburgh)
My friend Brandon posted his love letter to Wikipedia, in honor of its 10th birthday. The reason he loves Wikipedia, and loves working for the Wikimedia Foundation, is because of The Mission: to make...
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The [Citation Needed] blog has been around for a while. The curators post interesting / silly / bizarre examples of Wikipedia prose marked as [citation needed]. Cool as far as that goes. But now,...
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Wikipedia and the psychologists
Bob Kraut, Rosta Farzan, and Piotr Koniecnzy working the Wikipedia booth I spent the last several days in D.C. at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), along with...
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Aaron and Greg, and guerilla open access
Aaron Swartz, free knowledge hacker Last week was the beginning of something that might end up pretty huge in the world of free culture, copyright and open access activism. Aaron Swartz, a free...
View ArticleOn copyright infringement and “theft”
Yesterday I went to an open discussion about SOPA with Jason Altmire, who represents my district. He came out against SOPA at the end of the event. But one thing that bugged me was that just about...
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the use of Aaron Swartz photographs
After Aaron Swartz committed died by suicide in January, and in the months since then as issues of internet freedom and his own tragic story have continued to make news, there’s been a lot of demand...
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Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne, skepchickal I remember, for a long time before I met her, wondering what “a wade wit” meant. I remember a Skype conversation, years ago. Adrianne, Phoebe, SJ and I talked for probably three...
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Diderot — a Pebble watchface for finding nearby unillustrated Wikipedia articles
I published a watchface for Pebble smartwatches that shows you the nearest Wikipedia article that lacks a photograph. Have a Pebble and like to — or want to — contribute to Wikipedia? Try it out! It’s...
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