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Samuel Breslow
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Copy Editor @JDForward. Follow for tweets on (mis)info ecosystems: journalism, @Wikipedia, speech, etc. 🚲 Past: @TheProspect, @SPLC, @TSLnews, @PomonaCollege.
Nov 10, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
I'm in Toronto this weekend for @WikiConNA! I'll be tweeting out various highlights. #WikiConferenceNA

Kicking off, @selenamarie's keynote asks what we can do to make @Wikipedia persist over generations, and seeks to build ties between @Wikimedia and the volunteer community. Selena Deckelmann speaks at a podium in front of a Wikimedia Canada banner. @WikiConNA @selenamarie @Wikipedia @Wikimedia At panel with @Wikimedia Board of Trustees members, some tensions are evident between the online editor community and the affiliate world, as speakers get challenged to defend changes to the election process that'd give affiliates more power. #WikiConferenceNA Wikimedia Foundation trustees Lorenzo Losa, Raju Narisetti, and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight sit in a panel discussion.
Dec 14, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Twitter users can gripe about Musk's buyout/other issues, but our only real leverage is to leave.

Not so at Wikipedia, where the volunteer editor community successfully demanded that the managing nonprofit, @Wikimedia, change fundraising banners that bring in $100M+ per year. 🧵 Screenshot of Wikipedia with a fundraising banner at the top of the page with a maroon border that reads: Please don't skip this 1 minute read. Hi. This Tuesday December 13th, we humbly ask for your support. We are the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and 12 other free knowledge projects. We depend on donations from readers. If you can this year, please join the 2% of readers who give. There are no ads, subscription fees, or paywalls on Wikipedia. Those don't belong here. If Wikipedia has given you $2 worth of knowledge, please donate. — The Wikimedia Foundation Give $2 Give a different a... These banners have been extraordinarily lucrative for the Wikimedia Foundation, allowing it to expand from a tiny technical role managing Wikipedia's servers to a large nonprofit that runs conferences, issues grants, conducts advocacy, etc.
Feb 26, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Volunteer editors on #Wikipedia have been documenting the Russian invasion of #Ukraine as it unfolds. A look behind the scenes of breaking news editing: 🧵 Image On Feb. 21, as tensions rose, editors began a discussion at the talk page of the preexisting "2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis" article about whether to split off a separate article for an invasion should one occur. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2021…