Ben Vershbow

@subsublibrary

Open knowledge advocate. New dad. Libraries, education, and cultural heritage guy . Alum , Institute for the Future of the Book. (views=own)

Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2010
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    10 Aug 2017

    A new adventure begins. Thrilled to start this week in my new role Foundation leading the great community programs team. 1/4

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  2. Mar 18

    “...how Wikipedia has managed to maintain its role as a reliable database...while major, well-funded platforms like Facebook and YouTube have become the subjects of frenzied debate about misinformation." Why Wikipedia Works

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    Mar 17

    Intent focus at as we learn about and SPARQL queries. This is the future of !

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    Mar 15

    "The power of Wikipedia’s claim-making practice lies in the norms of questioning unsourced claims using the “citation needed” tag and by any other editor being able to remove claims that they believe to be incorrect” –

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  5. Mar 16

    This is tremendous. Next stop: ?

    A Wikipedia editor typed up 25,000 historical US city populations from the census, 4x what historians have had to work with. Here's a narrative visualization of the dataset.
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  6. Mar 15

    Great example of how open citation data can change the world. To create a prioritized "wishlist" of the next 4 million books it will digitize, analyzed citations across 9 language editions (along w/ several other important bibliographic data sets).

    Let’s Build a Great Digital Library Together…Starting with a Wishlist: We are working toward digitizing 4 million more books, and now you can see our wish list of the stuff we want most.
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    Mar 14

    You may have heard that is going to start linking videos about conspiracies to articles. Here's our statement about this, and a few words about how Wikipedia works.

    The Foundation statement about the recent announcement
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    Mar 14

    The Foundation statement about the recent announcement

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    Mar 13

    While we are thrilled to see people recognize the value of ’s non-commercial, volunteer model, we know the community’s work is already monetized without the commensurate or in-kind support that is critical to our sustainability.

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    Mar 10

    How multilingual is ? Live statistics about item labels, descriptions and aliases by language:

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    Mar 13

    doesn't speak enormously well of the advertising-based business model of the internet that one of its premiere information-services corporations (market cap $760b) relies on a donation-funded, volunteer-edited nonprofit to provide accurate information

    . announces that videos about conspiracies will now be accompanied by informative text from Wikipedia.
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  12. Mar 8

    Exciting progress

    Excited that the new is now live! Also, check out the new for a site targeted at our community!
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    Mar 7

    Want to make more women visible on Wikipedia this March? Here are some resources to help:

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    Mar 8

    Looking for some inspiration? We've put together a list of relevant collections editors can apply for free access to:

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    Mar 7

    Hey all-stars. Your talents would be amazingly helpful this Women's History Month: have you checked out events near you? Add more than references... add the stories of missing women and add more women editors!

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  16. Mar 8

    Rebecca Solnit: the and movements are a revolution that could not have taken place without decades of quiet, painstaking groundwork

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    Mar 5

    For 10 months, has been blocked in Turkey. Turkey, we miss sharing knowledge with you and learning from you. We need your knowledge, your expertise, your voice. Unblock Wikipedia.

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    Mar 3

    Happy ! We’re building a collaborative, CC0-licensed knowledge base of publications, authors, funders, institutions, publishers. You can access all data via SPARQL or explore it via tools like Scholia.

    " and scientometrics with " briefly mention with image in "Recent research" of
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  19. Mar 3

    Where I'll be today. ✌

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    Mar 1

    I sometimes wish we academics gave a bit more thought to whether the politics of our publishing *venues* match the politics we're arguing for. Like, why write about radical politics/decolonization/the_commons/whatever for journals that charge readers $150 for a 30-day rental?

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  21. Mar 3

    Another great institution opts for open.

    Starting today, a new open access policy (i.e. no usage fees!) applies to the 1.7M high-res images in our digital collections.
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