[Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead

[Sarah Stierch]

Official statement from the family:

http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of

I hope someone will perhaps write a blog post for the Wikimedia blog 
about his impact on the Wikimedia and free knowledge movement. This 
could be a community project.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog

-Sarah


On 1/12/13 2:58 PM, James Salsman wrote:
> Aaron explained how he originally measured Wikipedia contributions:
> http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/swartz2006 -- which is
> only linked through the bibliography he kept up on the topic
> http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/ which is linked at the
> end of the main essay. Less than a month ago we tweeted back and forth
> about weighting those statistics by pageviews.
>
> His best work might be his summary of Galbraith's _Predator State_:
> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/predatorstate
>
> "when we were fellows together at the Harvard Center for Ethics, I
> think we annoyed everyone else with our repeated insistence that
> reducing economic inequality was somehow always the appropriate
> solution to each of the many social ills the group identified" --
> http://crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/guest-review-by-aaron-swartz-chris-hayes-the-twilight-of-the-elites/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimedia-l mailing list
> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l


-- 
*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
 >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<