New Year, new Wikipedia list.
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Wikipedia work begets Wikipedia work. Reggie Ramos is the executive director of Transportation for Massachusetts a coalition of groups working to improve transportation in MA. She thinks high quality and affordable and accessible transportation is a civil rights issue. She is from the Republic of the Philippines where she was Undersecretary for Transportation. And she's a lawyer and international negotiator. She's quite cool.
@jessamyn She is very cool. How is she related to wikipedia?
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@jessamyn She is very cool. How is she related to wikipedia?
@OliviaVespera She's not other than I just wrote that article about her on Wikipedia. That thread is just a compilation of articles I've written this year.
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@OliviaVespera She's not other than I just wrote that article about her on Wikipedia. That thread is just a compilation of articles I've written this year.
@jessamyn Oh sorry, that is very cool! Good on ya for writing a neat aritcle about a very cool person! ^^ I hadn't known it was a thread when it came up on my feed.
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@jessamyn Oh sorry, that is very cool! Good on ya for writing a neat aritcle about a very cool person! ^^ I hadn't known it was a thread when it came up on my feed.
@OliviaVespera Thank you. Everyone's got their "I am trying to make time pass and not get the howling fantods" hobbies and Wikipedia work is mine.
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Wikipedia work begets Wikipedia work. Reggie Ramos is the executive director of Transportation for Massachusetts a coalition of groups working to improve transportation in MA. She thinks high quality and affordable and accessible transportation is a civil rights issue. She is from the Republic of the Philippines where she was Undersecretary for Transportation. And she's a lawyer and international negotiator. She's quite cool.
I'm reading a book about the human body. They discussed the work of a not-well-known poultry scientist who discovered what would become known as B cells from a little gland called the Bursa of Fabricius, written up in the Journal of Poultry Science. I went to read about him and noticed that there were a lot of articles but no Wikipedia page. Science is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I did my best. Meet Bruce Glick, one of the reasons we have decent cancer treatments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Glick
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I'm reading a book about the human body. They discussed the work of a not-well-known poultry scientist who discovered what would become known as B cells from a little gland called the Bursa of Fabricius, written up in the Journal of Poultry Science. I went to read about him and noticed that there were a lot of articles but no Wikipedia page. Science is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I did my best. Meet Bruce Glick, one of the reasons we have decent cancer treatments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Glick@jessamyn Good work!
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I'm reading a book about the human body. They discussed the work of a not-well-known poultry scientist who discovered what would become known as B cells from a little gland called the Bursa of Fabricius, written up in the Journal of Poultry Science. I went to read about him and noticed that there were a lot of articles but no Wikipedia page. Science is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I did my best. Meet Bruce Glick, one of the reasons we have decent cancer treatments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Glick@jessamyn Wow, what book is that?
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@jessamyn Wow, what book is that?
@kaveinthran It's The Body, a Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson. Super readable and interesting.
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@kaveinthran It's The Body, a Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson. Super readable and interesting.
@jessamyn Amazing. I've been looking at your Wikipedia list, and it was very great. I have a question if you don't mind. And you can find answers for me in your free time if you have some left.
Do you know of any books that are written about Wikipedia or GLAM? I'm also looking for essays and reference articles about Wikipedia outside the Wikipedia universe, if you know what I mean. Do you know of any blogs of Wikipedians that are writing regularly, and any reference or pointers on the inner workings of Wikipedia or on how to edit Wikipedia? Some things like that.
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I'm reading a book about the human body. They discussed the work of a not-well-known poultry scientist who discovered what would become known as B cells from a little gland called the Bursa of Fabricius, written up in the Journal of Poultry Science. I went to read about him and noticed that there were a lot of articles but no Wikipedia page. Science is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I did my best. Meet Bruce Glick, one of the reasons we have decent cancer treatments.
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@jessamyn Amazing. I've been looking at your Wikipedia list, and it was very great. I have a question if you don't mind. And you can find answers for me in your free time if you have some left.
Do you know of any books that are written about Wikipedia or GLAM? I'm also looking for essays and reference articles about Wikipedia outside the Wikipedia universe, if you know what I mean. Do you know of any blogs of Wikipedians that are writing regularly, and any reference or pointers on the inner workings of Wikipedia or on how to edit Wikipedia? Some things like that.
@kaveinthran I've read a few books about Wikipedia. There is one, which is fiction, which feels very "true" which is The Editors by Stephen Harrison. The last non-fiction book I read about it was Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joe Reagle.
It won't surprise you to know that Wikipedia maintains a bibliography about WP-adjacent reading.
Of the items on that list, I'd suggest the ones by Ayres and McDowell.
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