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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • created the architecture for the Open Library
  • Swartz was a member of the RSS-DEV Working Group that co-authored the "RSS 1.0" specification of RSS
  • founded the online group Demand Progress
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  • In the early days of Reddit, Swartz's Infogami and Reddit merged; the merger agreement made Swartz an equal partner in the merged company.
  • JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities.
  • Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.
  • against the Stop Online Piracy Act
  • On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR.[7][8] Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles.
  • In 2010 he joined the Harvard University Center for Ethics.
  • At age 13, he won the ArsDigita Prize, a competition for young people who create "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial websites.
  • By age 14, Swartz was a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification
  • he agitated without cease—or compensation—for the free-culture movement.
  • Around 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress's complete bibliographic dataset: the library charged fees to access this, but as a government document, it was not copyright-protected within the USA. By posting the data in the Open Library, Swartz made it freely available.
  • government-produced documents are not covered by copyright
  • public.resource.org
  • A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free.
Sunny Jackson

Wikipedia:Verifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • a reader's ability to check cited sources that directly support the information in an article
  • It must be possible to attribute all information in Wikipedia to reliable, published sources that are appropriate for the content in question.
  • Verifiability
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  • Neutral point of view
  • All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source
  • The citation should fully identify the source, and the location within the source (specifying page, section, or such divisions as may be appropriate) where the material is to be found.
  • The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material.
  • Editors might object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references. It has always been good practice to try to find and cite supporting sources
  • consider adding a citation needed tag
  • article
  • paper
  • or book
  • creator
  • document
  • publisher
  • published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy
  • Sources should directly support the material presented
  • appropriate to the claims made
  • academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources
  • Material from reliable non-academic sources may also be used, particularly if it appears in respected mainstream publications.
  • university-level textbooks
  • books published by respected publishing houses
  • journals
  • magazines
  • mainstream newspapers
Sunny Jackson

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Sunny Jackson

Help:Wiki markup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • ==Section headings==
  • ===Subsection===
  • ====A smaller subsection====
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  • ;A defined term:
  • an empty line starts a new paragraph
  • :A colon at the start of a line ::causes the line to be indented
  • <blockquote> The '''blockquote''' tag will indent both margins when needed instead of the left margin only as the colon does. </blockquote>
  • <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Centered text</div>
  • * ''Unordered [[Help:List|list]]s''
  • # ''Numbered lists''
  • hide stuff in parentheses
  • ;Definition lists: Terms and their definitions.
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  • <blockquote>...</blockquote>
  • To ''italicize text'', just put 2 apostrophes on each side.
  • 3 apostrophes will '''bold the text'''
  • 5 apostrophes for '''''bold italics'''''
  • <small>small text</small>
  • <tt>arrow →</tt>
  • A new line marks the end of the list
  • Redirect to an article. #REDIRECT [[
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  • {{citation needed}}
  • <del>strike out deleted material</del>
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Sunny Jackson

N. K. Jemisin « Transcriptase - 0 views

  • To a member of a marginalized group, however, silence in response to bigotry can only be negative, because it connotes approval, or at best ambivalence.
  • I need to see pride in their eyes, not confusion or concern, when they look back at me. Hell, I need to be able to look myself in the eye, with my self-respect intact.
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