Quim Gil @quimgil@writing.exchange
Wikimedia Foundation community relations at work. Opinions are mine.
Joined Mar 2018
Oceans of Noise: Episode One – Science Weekly #podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2019/may/03/oceans-of-noise-episode-one-science-weekly-podcast
English-as-secondary-language speaker me doesn't say "mesmerizing" very often, or at all. And yet, when I started listening this podcast, this is the word that popped in my mind.
I just listened the first episode and there are two more in the queue. So much to listen.
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#Solarpunk people:
Do you know any popculture / fictional stories / comics / graphic novels about #Wikipedia and the #Wikimedia movement?
With all its problems I think it's one of the most utopian movements out there, giving free knowledge to everyone on the planet. I don't understand why it's so absent in the popular culture.
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How to Make a Medieval Manuscript: An Introduction in 7 Videos http://www.openculture.com/?p=1064439 https://t.co/jbZhRp8TGU
Reddit Study Shows Power of Community Guidelines in Combating Harassment
A simple reminder helped keep discussions civil.
https://www.inverse.com/article/55348-r-science-experiment-community-guidelines-prevent-harassment
via https://meta.discourse.org/t/science-community-guideline-reminders-work/116444
Very good reading, all well put in one piece:
The privilege of free time in Open Source
Open Source communities often incorrectly believe that everyone can contribute. Unfortunately, not everyone has equal amounts of free time to contribute...
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RT @kateo
I love these two for making a funny to help people remember the difference.
Remember:
@vgcerf = Internet, ~1969.
@timberners_lee = WWW, ~1989.
Both of them: awesome, always.
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Presenting: The Wikidata Card Game Generator! It uses @wikidata, the free and open knowledge base, to generate fact cards on arbitrary topics, like metro systems, planets, or hackerspaces. Made with @Bleeptrack at the @verschwoerhaus last month. ✨ https://cardgame.morr.cc ✨
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I wrote up the API I'm thinking about for my #ActivityPub #PHP library! If you're interested in building federated PHP applications, I'd really appreciate if you check it out:
https://github.com/pterotype-project/activitypub-php
I opened an issue where people can give feedback and discuss the API so that we can make sure it will meet the needs of Fediverse developers. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please contribute to the discussion:
https://github.com/pterotype-project/activitypub-php/issues/1
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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors http://www.openculture.com/?p=109682 https://t.co/uVZlvwiKwM
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Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List http://www.openculture.com/?p=82015 https://t.co/S8gt7JKYMZ
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A Short Video Introduction to Hilma af Klint, the Mystical Female Painter Who Helped Invent Abstract Art http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059102 https://t.co/34Um6wZ8ur
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Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059485 https://t.co/NJLTtDaXtM
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Doom was released 25 years ago today. It was about 2.39 MB, the size of an average webpage today. News sites average closer to 8 MB.
Please shotgun the javascript demons and make more efficient & accessible websites.
My team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a designer.
Associate Designer, Community Relations
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1477308
Remote is good (most of our team members are remote to each other). Join us!
"The European Court of Human Rights affirmed that hyperlinking is protected free expression. Here’s why we’re applauding."
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None of these faces are real. All made up by AIs. The end of photography as evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04948.pdf
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The Mercator projection vs the true size of each country: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/a4ug8h/the_mercator_projection_vs_the_true_size_of_each/
https://www.femalepleasure.org/english/
"Barbara Miller’s feature documentary #FEMALEPLEASURE portrays five courageous, smart and self-determined women, breaking the silence imposed by their archaic-patriarch societies and religious communities. (...) All protagonists have come to the same conclusion: the female body is subjected to male lust and first and foremost meant for procreation, without any regard for female sexual pleasure and autonomy."
Wikimedia Foundation community relations at work. Opinions are mine.
Joined Mar 2018
