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Wikipedia was founded exactly 20 years ago, on January 15, 2001: today is Wikipedia Day, our birthday. I have been editing Wikipedia -- & writing, teaching and helping govern it -- for 17.5 of those years. #wikipedia20 1/🧵
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Sci-eng / comp sci librarian at @mitlibraries; long-time @wikipedia / @Wikimedia vol. I ♥ open: collab, info, internet, science, politics, dinners. 📷 @megwacha
- Cosycore. Empathycore. Hobbitcore!! This thread is genius. Let's all be Hobbitcore.Whatever the opposite of “hardcore” 10x rock star dev is, that’s what I want. cosycore, moving slowly, making things right, petting the dog, naps, staring out of the window pondering problems and drinking tea.
- Let us reflect on this Matt Levine story from May: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… The board didn't have to say yes, and (I don't think) the shareholders had to vote yes. And anyone with a brain (or research background) could have told them and Elon acquisition would be bad, so ?????
- Come find me at @[email protected] and let's go experience some terrible UX together
- You could apply this to any project that involves a lot of people; Wikipedia too. Anyway, this sucks. I like Twitter, and it's handy for my job too. Now what.Replying to @dlberesThis thing isn't just a little self-winding machine. People make all of this happen. And institutional knowledge matters a lot in tech, where old code and processes pile up over years.
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