Hi everyone,
Taran Rampersad recently posted a message to his blog,
www.knowprose.com, about the fact that he's recently been added to
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Rampersad
While reading the discussion on the entry's talk page, it occurred to me
that there wasn't a category on Wikipedia for listing entries about
digital divide activists. There are probably more digital divide
activists in Wikipedia than I realize; just searching for a few DDN
members and other colleagues I found others including Bonnie Bracey,
John "Maddog" Hall, MS Swaminathan and Randal Pinkett. (I'm in there as
well.)
So, I went ahead and created a new Wikipedia page for Digital Divide
activists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Digital_Divide_activists
This page is automatically updated whenever a wikipedia entry has a tag
added to the bottom of the page designating that entry as a digital
divide activist. For example, I was able to add Bonnie's name to the
list by editing her wikipedia entry and adding this code at the bottom:
[[Category:Digital Divide activists|Bracey, Bonnie]]
As you can see, the format is fairly simple; you just edit the last
section of it to include a person's surname, followed by their first
name. So if you know of anyone who's a digital divide activist and
happens to be listed in Wikipedia, please feel free to add this category
tag to their wikipedia entry so they will be added to the digital divide
activists page. And if you know a well-known activist who should be
added to wikipedia, please feel free to create a new entry from scratch
- the more the merrier...
andy
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Andy Carvin
acarvin (at) edc . org
andycarvin (at) yahoo . com
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.andycarvin.com
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