No maps for these territories

Have you ever run a presentation workshop/clinic at a conference? Or have you ever wished that such a service was available to you? If so, I want to hear from you:  http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Presentation_clinic I’ve been toying around with the idea of running such a workshop at Wikimania for many years, but this year I think I [...]

Dear friends! Please help me brainstorm ideas about the best way to approach this situation. I am interested in doing something about Wikipedia’s and the WMF’s archives. These are in several parts: our on-wiki project archives: the long-standing pages, proposals, essays and discussions that make up our history. Some pages are marked “historic”; some are [...]

I had the great privilege of speaking at DPLA West last weekend, where I was one of a panel of speakers giving perspectives on the possibilities of the DPLA; I spoke as a Wikimedian and as a librarian. It was only five minutes, so I wrote down my talk in full; the text is below. [...]

My friend and colleague Ben Yates died Monday evening. He was 29. He was my co-author, with Charles Matthews, on our book How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. He was a skilled artist and designer, and he was responsible for the beautiful figures in the book. I first encountered [...]

As in the past election, I’m posting my candidacy statement for the Board of Trustees publicly. I’m running as a part of the chapter-selected seats process, which is outlined here. My term is up in July; the chapters aim to have a decision made in May. It has been a true honor as well as [...]

The Board has taken up two weighty subjects in the last few weeks and months: fundraising and funds dissemination (or, how should we best distribute resources — including fundraising resources — around all the many Wikimedia-related projects); and movement roles (or, what are all the moving parts in Wikimedia, and what roles do they play [...]

(NB: or you could just watch this Clay Shirky video) I wrote this for a science librarians mailing list, and in lieu of having time to write another post (today is a big day for us at Wikimedia) reproduce it here. —- I’m a science librarian at UC Davis and sit on the board of [...]