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Comment on The Missing Wikipedians by Digital divides and the uneven geographies of knowledge « Julia's Blog

Digital divides and the uneven geographies of knowledge « Julia's Blog — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:25:43 +0000

[...] pieces of content on the web to provide adequate citations. This story is told in more detail in The missing wikipedians by Heather [...]

Comment on Wikipedia Isn’t Journalism, But Are Wikipedians Reluctant Journalists? by Wikipedia Isn't Journalism, But Are Wikipedians Reluctant … – Latest News Stories

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:53:36 +0000

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Comment on The Missing Wikipedians by Announcing Ushahidi and iHub research seminar: 11 November *iHub_

Announcing Ushahidi and iHub research seminar: 11 November *iHub_ — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:22:19 +0000

[...] iSchool where she studied the social life of information in schools, educational privacy and Africans’ on Wikipedia. She is a former Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member and the former Executive Director [...]

Comment on The Missing Wikipedians by Announcing Ushahidi and iHub research seminar: 11 November – The Ushahidi Blog

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Comment on The Spaces Between: Towards Private Spaces for Peer Learning by New geographies | Ethnography Matters

New geographies | Ethnography Matters — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:43:35 +0000

[...] or move to more intimate spaces in order to protect their privacy, something I noticed in my study of privacy in an educational context, for example. Mark Graham, Internet geographer from the Oxford Internet Institute, asks the [...]

Comment on Why Wikipedia articles are deleted by Cool projects by cool people › Jina Moore

Cool projects by cool people › Jina Moore — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:19:30 +0000

[...] crisis. Her blog is a treasure trove of thoughtful reading on the digital world, including the hegemony you didn't realize was happening over at [...]

Comment on What should be remembered? by Cool projects by cool people › Jina Moore

Cool projects by cool people › Jina Moore — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:19:25 +0000

[...] Ford, a digital ethnographer and a wonderfully smart, reflective member of the team behind Ushahidi, the mapping tool that came out of Kenya's 2007 electoral [...]

Comment on Why Wikipedia articles are deleted by Heather Ford

Heather Ford — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:32:37 +0000

Good question, Dror. “No indication of importance” is A7 (out of 10 reasons to delete articles + another 12 general reasons) so I’m guessing it isn’t first on the list and I’m guessing it isn’t a drop list but am checking up!

Comment on Why Wikipedia articles are deleted by Dror Kamir

Dror Kamir — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:21:44 +0000

A question of clarification – Did you check that “No indication of importance” is not a default reason or simply the first one on a drop list? Is it possible that when people don’t want to bother with defining reasons or simply can’t point out to one simple reason, they choose this one as a default?

Comment on The Missing Wikipedians by Q and A with Heather Ford: Makmende, Web Ethnography and Ostrich | memeburn

Q and A with Heather Ford: Makmende, Web Ethnography and Ostrich | memeburn — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:31:49 +0000

[...] page about the meme, but were continuously blocked. It made for a good story. And so I helped tell it. (And there will be another installment early next year!)AR: Post grad school you landed a position [...]