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This page is to keep track of my contributions to, and coverage of my work in, various Wikimedia publications. (I may want to expend it to include other publications; for now, much of that information lives at
http://wikistrategies.net/speaking )
Wikipedia needs new leadership , op-ed, USA Today (April 2014)
You Think No One Sees You Tinkering With Your Wikipedia Entry, Mr. Congressman? Zocalo Public Square (April 2014)
The Daily Mail flails (front page of medium.com) (February 2017)
Letter: Forsyth, Pete (November 15, 2016).
"Separating WikiLeaks from wiki" . Portland Tribune .
UNESCO Chair, OER Community . Sara Frank Bristow and Pete Forsyth: "
Mapping the Landscape of OER Institutional Initiatives ." JAMMO ISSN 2146-3328 (2012).
How Wikipedia dodged public outcry that plagues social media platforms , MisinfoCon blog, December 2019.
Trusting Everybody to Work Together , The Signpost , also a
submission to Wikipedia@20, 2020.
Samek, Toni; Shultz, Lynette (March 24, 2017).
Information Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship: Essays on Ideas to Praxis . McFarland. p. 82. (quoted re: Wikipedia vs. WikiLeaks)
Cieply, Michael (June 22, 2015).
"Wikipedia pages of star clients altered by P.R. firm" . New York Times .
Kaminer, Michael (December 17, 2015).
"The Big Oops: Sunshine Sachs' Wikipedia Whitewash" . The Observer . Archived from
the original on November 18, 2018.
Dewey, Caitlin (December 2, 2015).
"Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?" . Washington Post .
Wie die Wikipedia-Spendenaktion die Basis erzürnt ("How the Wikipedia fundraiser angered the grassroots"), Suddeutsche Zeitung , December 2015.
Wikipedia's Crisis of Identity , Epoch Times (2015) (
archive )
El Periodico (January 2016)
Comment les entreprises peuvent tirer profit de Wikipedia ("How enterprises can profit from Wikipedia"), Largeur (2014)
The Great Book of Knowledge, Part 2 , CBC, January 2014.
Is Wikipedia going commercial? Salon (2012)
Encyclopedic Ambitions , Oregon Public Broadcasting (2009)
Kessenides, Dimitra; Chafkin, Max (December 22, 2016).
"Is Wikipedia Woke?" . Bloomberg Businessweek .
Sampson, Tim (April 14, 2014).
"One of Wikimedia's largest donors accused in paid editing scandal" . The Daily Dot . (No mention by name; see
Assessment of Belfer Center Wikipedian in Residence program for context)
Tapscott, Mark (January 24, 2013).
"Obama's transparency promises still mostly just words" . Washington Examiner .
Orlowski, Andrew (December 30, 2016).
"El Reg just saved your Wikipedia Xmas" . The Register .
Jeffries, Adrianne (January 26, 2017).
"The whitehouse.gov reset broke Wikipedia links en masse" . The Outline .
Kiss, Jemima; Gibbs, Samuel (August 6, 2014).
"Wikipedia boss Lila Tretikov: 'Glasnost taught me much about freedom of information' " . The Guardian .
"Story of a River" in Mele, Nicco (April 23, 2013).
The End of Big: How the Internet makes David the new Goliath . Macmillan.
ISBN
1250021863 .
Brief mentions / looser connection to Wikipedia
Peer reviewed conference presentations
John Dove,
How can you write an open access encyclopedia in a closed access world? , November 12, 2015
LiAnna Davis,
School of Open offers free Wikipedia course , May 10, 2013
Tilman Bayer,
Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2012 , March 8, 2012
Lori Byrd Phillips,
GLAMcamp DC kicks off US coordination of GLAM-Wiki efforts , February 16, 2012
LiAnna Davis,
Wikipedia registers for classes , August 19, 2010
Brief mentions of my work
Samir Elsharbaty,
News on Wikipedia: Wikipedians track the Dakota Access Pipeline , December 17, 2016
Syed Muzammiluddin & Ed Erhart,
Community digest: In brief (regarding Wikimedia strategy), January 21, 2016
Siko Bouterse,
WikiWomen’s History Month encourages women to edit Wikipedia , March 23, 2012
Gerard Meijssen,
Tutorial for using the Translate extension January 25, 2012
Sue Gardner,
The message from the Wikipedia Blackout: Please leave the Internet alone , January 20, 2012
LiAnna Davis,
Announcing the Public Policy Initiative Advisory Board , August 6, 2010
(I assisted with:) Gabriel Thullen,
Swiss chapter in turmoil , May 17, 2016
Hard work needed to address Wikimedia's leadership challenges , March 19, 2016
As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed , November 11, 2015
Media Viewer software is not ready , September 10, 2014
Five things a Wikipedian in Residence can do , April 23, 2014
Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
There are better ways of combating unethical paid editing , February 26, 2014
Note: I
became editor in chief of the Signpost in August 2016; here, I will include only the more substantial pieces.
Gamaliel,
Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy , March 9, 2016
Andreas Kolbe,
2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate , October 14, 2015
Gamaliel,
Undisclosed paid editing now in the Sunshine , June 24, 2015
Ed Erhart,
Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative , July 9, 2014
Ed Erhart,
Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny , March 19, 2014
Jake Orlowitz,
Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth , April 30, 2012
Tony1 and Jan Eissfeldt,
Paid editing takes a new turn , April 30, 2012
Mabeenot,
WikiProject Report: The Oregonians , August 15, 2011
Wikipedia for Credit , Inside Higher Ed, September 7, 2010.
Cryptic C62,
WikiProject Report: WikiProject Oregon , July 27, 2009
Brief mentions of my work
Liam Wyatt,
Battle for the soul of the Wikimedia Foundation , January 13, 2016
Andreas Kolbe,
In the media/In brief: Crew member accused of altering Wikipedia page to favor movie , November 11, 2015 (not mentioned by name;
connection documented here )
In the media/In brief (Sunshine Sachs) , June 17, 2015
Tony1,
WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost , May 13, 2015
In the media (USA Today op-ed piece), May 7, 2014
Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director , May 7, 2014
Ed Erhart,
Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe? , July 2, 2012
GLAMcamp DC briefly mentioned twice:
here and
here , 2012
Briefly (Speaker at Good Internet conference), April 25, 2011
News in brief (WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week/Columbia River Gorge), February 21, 2011
News in brief (WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week/76th Legislative Assembly), January 24, 2011
Mabeenot,
WikiProject Report: Where are they now? , January 18, 2010
Taking a Stand at Standing Rock , Article in the Portland Tribune , 2016
Wikipedia needs new leadership , Op-ed column for USA Today , 2014
What Are the Main Highlights From Bill Clinton's Speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention? , Quora/Huffington Post, 2012
COLT: A Proposed Center for Teaching and Learning , WikiSym/ACM, with
Dr. Robert E. Cummings , 2011
"Why I support Vicki Walker for Secretary of State" . Blue Oregon . April 27, 2008.
Updating Mt. Tabor's Master Plan , Op-ed column for the Oregonian , 2007
Oregon Non-Profit Attacks E-Waste at its Source , Earth First Journal , 2006
Free Software, Older Computers Help Group Narrow Digital Divide , Portland Tribune , 2001
Open letter to the Oregonian , 2009
No free ride for Flexcar , Letter to the Editor, Willamette Week, 2006
Commentary on NBA player Evan Turner
Diane Freaney blog post
Korfhage, Matthew (November 8, 2016).
"Portland Bakery Gets National Attention After Report of Racist Cupcake: Local bakery Fat Cupcake receives a pile of national news coverage after the Oregonian reblogs an anonymous Yelp review" . Willamette Week .
Valentine, Ben (July 21, 2014).
"Oakland's Sudo Mesh Looks to Counter Censorship and Digital Divide With a Mesh Network" . Tech President .
Requested
House Bill 3091 , "Prohibits state agencies from claiming copyright protection for works produced by state employees or using funds provided by State Treasury," Oregon legislature, 2009.
Wayne, Erika (June 17, 2008).
"Oregon – Hot Topic" . Legal Research Plus . (
cross-posted here ; topic also mentioned
here )
Member of Portland's Citizen Campaign Commission:
Willamette Week , 2007 (mentions Wikipedia editing)
Wikipedia-oriented blog mentions
Interviewed in 2018 by Stephen Downes for his "Education 3.0" MOOC.
Synopsis of the topic , and
Video of the interview, and some blog posts reacting to it:
Bill Beutler,
The Top Ten Wikipedia Stories of 2016 , January 2017
Ward Cunningham's page on the "
Forsyth Criteria " (started in 2016)
Pax Ahimsa Gethen,
Gender and Education at Wikipedia , April 2016
Pax Ahimsa Gethen,
Wikipedia 15 , January 2016
Bill Beutler,
The Crisis at New Montgomery St. , January 2016
Liam Wyatt,
Strategy and controversy , January 2016
Mike Linksvayer,
Democratizing Wikimedia Innovation , May 2015
Forsyth, Pete ; Azzam, Amin; Cook, Dan; Lee, Jeannette (26 March 2015), "The Power of Reuse: Wikipedia in Action",
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's OER Grantees Meeting 2015 ,
Sausalito, California :
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education , retrieved 30 March 2015
Chris Clark,
Wikipedia gains academic acceptance , July 2014
Eugene Eric Kim,
Giving away my intellectual property , June 2014
Bill Beutler,
Bats in the Belfer: A Beginner’s Guide to the Biggest Wikipedia Controversy You’ve Probably Never Heard Of , April 2014
Ryan Guy,
Learning Wikipedia with #WikiSOO , March 2014
Margarita Nafpaktitis,
Learning Wikipedian , November 2013
Bill Beutler,
It’s the Law! Wikipedia, Cato Institute and the U.S. Congress , March 2013
Lori Byrd Phillips,
NARA plays host for Wikipedians at GLAMcamp DC , February 27, 2012
Kippelboy,
Glamcamp DC 2012 , February 15, 2012
My own contribution to the following contributions is licensed CC BY 4.0. In some cases, however, the university or organization that made the recording may have copyright to the recording. I'm happy to seek rights for republication; please let me know if that would be helpful.
Harvard University's Shorenstein Center , with
Frank Schulenburg , 2010 (
audio archive )
Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool – the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative and the path to an effective and sustainable collaborative environment with the world of higher education , with Frank Schulenburb and Rod Dunican, Wikimania, July 2010
Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy , with
Annie Lin , 2010
University of Michigan , participant in application for Center for Energy-Efficient Ultra-Dense Computing, 2010
Good Internet conference at U.C. Berkeley , 2011
With Michel Aaij,
Wikipedia governance and culture , invited talk at the first Wikipedian and Higher Education Summit, Simmons College, 2011
University of Mississippi , 2012
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Education Grantees Meeting , Harvard University School of Law, 2012
Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication , Tufts University, July 2012
Meeting of the OERu anchor partners , Athabasca University, 2013
Wikipedia in Higher Education symposium , The Writing Hub, University of Sydney, March 2014
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Education Grantees Meeting , "The Power of Reuse: Wikipedia in Action" (panel moderator), 2015
Future of Text, Packard Foundation, 2015
Moderated panel discussion at the Wikimedia Foundation for Wikipedia's 15th birthday:
Wikipedia Day 2016
Co-founder (and sponsor, and moderator on several occasions) of
Bay Area WikiSalon monthly series, 2015
North Carolina State University's Leadership in Technology series , 2016
Future of Text, Google, 2016
Wikicite 2018 (News on Wiki)
WikiConference North America 2019 (News on Wiki)
Open Publishing Festival 2020
Partnered with
AfroCROWD to host the
Juneteenth 2020 online edit-a-thon (coached & promoted)
Press releases and announcements
Jane Park,
School of Open: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration , Creative Commons blog, February 2014
Ryan Guy,
Learning Wikipedia with #WikiSOO , March 2014
Thrivable Future Salon , October 2015
University of Mississippi,
Hewlett Foundation Grant Improves Online Learning
https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/ca342b2c7ab421bac82499703054fdf1
Terese Bird,
Labour of Love: Why do people contribute, or not contribute, to Wikipedia articles about OER? , April 2014
Free online course open to all interested in OER & Wikipedia
Wikinews: