How to Help Wikipedia, and How to Hurt It
I stumbled recently across sociologist Gary Marx‘s documentation of tactics covertly used by external parties to hurt or help social/political movements [1]. Like for example the FBI attempts to...
View ArticleLänge leve Wikipettrar!
I’m in Stockholm for the Swedish chapter’s third Wikipedia Academy, and I spent most of today with Swedish journalists. I was talking with Robert Brännström, Editor-in-Chief of IDG Sweden, about the...
View ArticleWikipedia Pattern: the very young editor
As ED of the Wikimedia Foundation, I get to meet Wikimedians all over the world. It didn’t take me long to see the commonalities among them – after only about six months, I believed –probably mostly...
View ArticleBack in San Francisco
I haven’t posted here for a while because I was on a long and slightly gruelling trip, timed to coincide with Wikimedia’s 2010 fundraiser. (Which has just successfully concluded with more than a half...
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