Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
It is worth to listen professor Lessig interview on Democracy now http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/an_incredible_soul_lawrence_lessig_remembers#.UPRn4_WqvF0.twitter An Incredible Soul -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
(For the first time I am finally posting on the Wikimedia-l list. :P) Thanks for posting this, Everton. It is extremely moving and, somehow, this should remind us of why we are all still here, and what we are fighting for. With that said, I have said on Meta (and privately) that it's time for us to move the discussion away from his immediate death, and instead start to focus on what his death ought to mean. I have to agree with Aaron is now a symbol: to me (and perhaps to many of us as well), he's now an ideal worth fighting for. And, indeed, we have to complete the work that he started, if ever we will make his death meaningful. I expressed these sentiments in a Facebook note I wrote yesterday: https://www.facebook.com/notes/josh-lim/a-question-of-reflection-and-legacy-a-non-tribute-to-aaron-swartz/10151315708551878 Regards, Josh On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org wrote: It is worth to listen professor Lessig interview on Democracy now http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/an_incredible_soul_lawrence_lessig_remembers#.UPRn4_WqvF0.twitter An Incredible Soul -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM Block I1, AB Political Science Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Trustee (2010-2013), Wikimedia Philippines Member, Ateneo Debate Society Member, The Assembly jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com | +63 (917) 841-5235 Friendster/Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Splendidly done. I'm mobile all day; could someone add a link to that, from the relevant section of [[WP: RIP]], please? On Jan 13, 2013 6:45 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: The blog post it out now: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/ On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Official statement from the family: http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-** statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog -Sarah I do not know about a blog post, but a few San Francisco Wikimedians (myself included) are exploring the possibility of holding a quiet, respectful open house next week in honor of Aaron, hosted at the Foundation. I should emphasize that we haven't decided yet, since if Creative Commons or the EFF are holding events of any kind, we will likely defer to supporting that, rather than holding anything separately. I will keep folks posted. Hi all - sharing with you in this real sense of loss and sadness. It's hard to believe it was just a year ago that the energy around SOPA was everywhere in the Wikimedia movement, and I think it's safe to say that Aaron was so much the nucleus of that energy. Re a blog post - yes, we're working on something now for the Wikimedia blog, but what I think we'd really like to do is point to a community memorial on Wikipedia or meta or wherever, where our community might be recording their thoughts on Aaron. I suspect we would also point to the memorial referenced by his family. Has anyone seen such an on-wiki memorial? Might someone be able to propose/create such a page if it doesn't already exist? There are so many voices in our community who have something to say about Aaron, it would be great to share that. jay -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Congrats for the blog post about Aaron. I asked some friends to create a homage for him and I will translate for Portuguese. From another mailing list, a petition was create on Avaaz, an organization Aaron work to also. See bellow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Harry Halpin hhalpin AT ibiblio.org Date: 2013/1/13 Subject: [okfn-discuss] Petition to have MIT and US Govt. issue an apologies for prosecuting Aaron Schwartz To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list okfn-disc...@lists.okfn.org I made a petition to demand an from MIT and the US Attorney of Massachusetts apologies for their prosecution of Aaron Schwartz, a prosecution that his parents say is partly to blame for his suicide. The US Federal Government is also added since laws on the federal level allow this kind of absurd prosecution. Feel free to sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Federal_Government_and_MIT_issue_a_formal_apologies_for_the_death_of_Aaron_Schwartz/?wgeiRd From the official statement of Swartz's family: Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney's office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community's most cherished principles. On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Splendidly done. I'm mobile all day; could someone add a link to that, from the relevant section of [[WP: RIP]], please? On Jan 13, 2013 6:45 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: The blog post it out now: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/ -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
The blog post was poignant. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead - memorials
Numerous Wikipedians are leaving memorials on AaronSw's user talk page on English Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:AaronSw I've also added a link to there from Aaron's entry in WP:RIP. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html Awful news. -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html Awful news. -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Sorry, I don't know better - in what way was A. S. related to the Wikimedia movement? Kind regards Ziko 2013/1/12 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com: I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html Awful news. -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
He was an author (user:aaronsw) and developer, among others. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Sorry, I don't know better - in what way was A. S. related to the Wikimedia movement? Kind regards Ziko 2013/1/12 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com: I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html Awful news. -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
I just created an article for him on Portuguese Wikipedia. I want to improve about this On July 19, 2011, he was arrested for harvesting academic journal articles from JSTOR. Very sad. Tom On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Sorry, I don't know better - in what way was A. S. related to the Wikimedia movement? Kind regards Ziko 2013/1/12 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com: I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html Awful news. -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Wikimedia Chapters Association Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
On 12 January 2013 15:01, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: He was an author (user:aaronsw) and developer, among others. Also came up with the study showing that most content contribution is done by drive-by editors: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia So a few hundred people do the curation work - but the original writing is done by lots and lots of people. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
It's shocking, horrible news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AaronSw/Election - he ran for the Board in 2006. See http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians Making More Wikipedians. Some more links and memories at http://www.metafilter.com/123777/Open-access-open-internet-closed-book . -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings during his election campaign are worth re-reading: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedias http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikicodeislaw He was also described as one of the early architects of Creative Commons by Larry Lessig [1], and founded infogami which merged into Reddit, so he's sometimes called a Reddit co-founder as well. Since then he's turned to activism and co-founded Demand Progress which has been rallying opposition to bad Internet law, including SOPA/PIPA. Cory Doctorow's obituary is a very personal goodbye and includes a video of Aaron's talk How we stopped SOPA. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html Aaron was an intense, passionate and focused intellectual who dedicated his life to changing the world for the better - and he did. It's a shocking loss and deeply sad that he left us so early, that he saw no other way. May he rest in peace. Erik [1] http://www.lessig.org/2006/09/if-i-could-vote-on-the-wikiped/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
[...] The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a free, online encyclopedia that anyone could edit or add things to or reorganize, right through their web browser. I built the whole thing, added lots of cool features, tested it on all sorts of browsers, and was very proud of it. It actually won even a prize for one of the best new web applications that year. Unfortunately, the only people I knew at the time were other kids in my school, so I didn't really have anyone writing a lot of encyclopedia articles. (Luckily, several years later, my mother pointed me to this new site called Wikipedia that was doing the same thing.) [...] From How to Get a Job Like Mine https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget. Thanks for the links bellow. This was a really horrible lost for all of us. Tom On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings during his election campaign are worth re-reading: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedias http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikicodeislaw He was also described as one of the early architects of Creative Commons by Larry Lessig [1], and founded infogami which merged into Reddit, so he's sometimes called a Reddit co-founder as well. Since then he's turned to activism and co-founded Demand Progress which has been rallying opposition to bad Internet law, including SOPA/PIPA. Cory Doctorow's obituary is a very personal goodbye and includes a video of Aaron's talk How we stopped SOPA. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html Aaron was an intense, passionate and focused intellectual who dedicated his life to changing the world for the better - and he did. It's a shocking loss and deeply sad that he left us so early, that he saw no other way. May he rest in peace. Erik [1] http://www.lessig.org/2006/09/if-i-could-vote-on-the-wikiped/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Thanks for the information, and my condoleances to those who knew him. Sounds like a very, very interesting person. Kind regards Ziko 2013/1/12 Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org: [...] The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a free, online encyclopedia that anyone could edit or add things to or reorganize, right through their web browser. I built the whole thing, added lots of cool features, tested it on all sorts of browsers, and was very proud of it. It actually won even a prize for one of the best new web applications that year. Unfortunately, the only people I knew at the time were other kids in my school, so I didn't really have anyone writing a lot of encyclopedia articles. (Luckily, several years later, my mother pointed me to this new site called Wikipedia that was doing the same thing.) [...] From How to Get a Job Like Mine https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget. Thanks for the links bellow. This was a really horrible lost for all of us. Tom On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings during his election campaign are worth re-reading: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedias http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikicodeislaw He was also described as one of the early architects of Creative Commons by Larry Lessig [1], and founded infogami which merged into Reddit, so he's sometimes called a Reddit co-founder as well. Since then he's turned to activism and co-founded Demand Progress which has been rallying opposition to bad Internet law, including SOPA/PIPA. Cory Doctorow's obituary is a very personal goodbye and includes a video of Aaron's talk How we stopped SOPA. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html Aaron was an intense, passionate and focused intellectual who dedicated his life to changing the world for the better - and he did. It's a shocking loss and deeply sad that he left us so early, that he saw no other way. May he rest in peace. Erik [1] http://www.lessig.org/2006/09/if-i-could-vote-on-the-wikiped/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Condolences to all that knew him - very tragic - especially at such a young age. If my memory is correct (and that's a gamble) I seem to recall knowing about him more from his work on early RSS around the age of 13. I was in college doing websites at the time and recall being rather impressed with someone so young making such a widespread impact on the core of the web. -greg aka varnent On 12 Jan, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Thanks for the information, and my condoleances to those who knew him. Sounds like a very, very interesting person. Kind regards Ziko 2013/1/12 Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org: [...] The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a free, online encyclopedia that anyone could edit or add things to or reorganize, right through their web browser. I built the whole thing, added lots of cool features, tested it on all sorts of browsers, and was very proud of it. It actually won even a prize for one of the best new web applications that year. Unfortunately, the only people I knew at the time were other kids in my school, so I didn't really have anyone writing a lot of encyclopedia articles. (Luckily, several years later, my mother pointed me to this new site called Wikipedia that was doing the same thing.) [...] From How to Get a Job Like Mine https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget. Thanks for the links bellow. This was a really horrible lost for all of us. Tom On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings during his election campaign are worth re-reading: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedias http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikicodeislaw He was also described as one of the early architects of Creative Commons by Larry Lessig [1], and founded infogami which merged into Reddit, so he's sometimes called a Reddit co-founder as well. Since then he's turned to activism and co-founded Demand Progress which has been rallying opposition to bad Internet law, including SOPA/PIPA. Cory Doctorow's obituary is a very personal goodbye and includes a video of Aaron's talk How we stopped SOPA. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html Aaron was an intense, passionate and focused intellectual who dedicated his life to changing the world for the better - and he did. It's a shocking loss and deeply sad that he left us so early, that he saw no other way. May he rest in peace. Erik [1] http://www.lessig.org/2006/09/if-i-could-vote-on-the-wikiped/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html - d. Oh, Aaron. I remember meeting him, after reading some of his writing, and being surprised to find the person behind the mental voice, introverted and thoughtful and a little awkward, in contrast to the boldness of his blog. I considered him a friend, though I wish I'd known him better; I remember talking to him, often in a smaller gathering of nerds after some conference or event, about copyright, the open web, Wikipedia, social structures, and usually about some problem or another that existed in the world. And unlike almost anyone else, a short time later Aaron would have founded an organization or taken on some big project or pulled some crazy stunt to try to fix that problem, because that's just what he did. And sometimes he succeeded. What a huge loss. -Kat ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: k...@wikimedia.org, k...@mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
A few posts if anyone here's not aware of Aaron (see also his Wikipedia bio) - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick - Aaron's blog post on himself - http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully - by Lawrence Lessig - http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/academic-libraries/many-jstor-journal-archives-now-free-to-public- 3 days ago FT2 On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html - d. Oh, Aaron. I remember meeting him, after reading some of his writing, and being surprised to find the person behind the mental voice, introverted and thoughtful and a little awkward, in contrast to the boldness of his blog. I considered him a friend, though I wish I'd known him better; I remember talking to him, often in a smaller gathering of nerds after some conference or event, about copyright, the open web, Wikipedia, social structures, and usually about some problem or another that existed in the world. And unlike almost anyone else, a short time later Aaron would have founded an organization or taken on some big project or pulled some crazy stunt to try to fix that problem, because that's just what he did. And sometimes he succeeded. What a huge loss. -Kat ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
This is terrible to hear. We've lost a brilliant mind far too soon. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Killed himself. http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org wrote: I just created an article for him on Portuguese Wikipedia. I want to improve about this On July 19, 2011, he was arrested for harvesting academic journal articles from JSTOR. Very sad. Tom This link should help expand on that, Internet activist accused of data theft. http://boingboing.net/2011/07/19/swartz.html -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
On 12 January 2013 19:37, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: A few posts if anyone here's not aware of Aaron (see also his Wikipedia bio) Even Tim Berners-Lee weighs in (and he basically keeps quiet about almost everything): https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/statuses/290140454211698689 Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
What a dreadful loss. I never knew Aaron except through his work and his writings, but he always came across as a confident person who was truly passionate about the work that he did. We're all the poorer for his passing. My condolences to everyone on this list who knew him. Regards, Craig Franklin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
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@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
This is the worst news of last year for Wikimedia, Aaron has been a genial and precious member of our community. But nothing really meaningful can be said or done now... Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
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@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 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Official statement from the family: http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-** statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-ofhttp://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/Bloghttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog -Sarah I do not know about a blog post, but a few San Francisco Wikimedians (myself included) are exploring the possibility of holding a quiet, respectful open house next week in honor of Aaron, hosted at the Foundation. I should emphasize that we haven't decided yet, since if Creative Commons or the EFF are holding events of any kind, we will likely defer to supporting that, rather than holding anything separately. I will keep folks posted. Steven ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
Official statement from the family: http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-** statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog -Sarah I do not know about a blog post, but a few San Francisco Wikimedians (myself included) are exploring the possibility of holding a quiet, respectful open house next week in honor of Aaron, hosted at the Foundation. I should emphasize that we haven't decided yet, since if Creative Commons or the EFF are holding events of any kind, we will likely defer to supporting that, rather than holding anything separately. I will keep folks posted. Hi all - sharing with you in this real sense of loss and sadness. It's hard to believe it was just a year ago that the energy around SOPA was everywhere in the Wikimedia movement, and I think it's safe to say that Aaron was so much the nucleus of that energy. Re a blog post - yes, we're working on something now for the Wikimedia blog, but what I think we'd really like to do is point to a community memorial on Wikipedia or meta or wherever, where our community might be recording their thoughts on Aaron. I suspect we would also point to the memorial referenced by his family. Has anyone seen such an on-wiki memorial? Might someone be able to propose/create such a page if it doesn't already exist? There are so many voices in our community who have something to say about Aaron, it would be great to share that. jay -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
I started something on [[WP:RIP]]. On Jan 13, 2013 12:45 AM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Official statement from the family: http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-** statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog -Sarah I do not know about a blog post, but a few San Francisco Wikimedians (myself included) are exploring the possibility of holding a quiet, respectful open house next week in honor of Aaron, hosted at the Foundation. I should emphasize that we haven't decided yet, since if Creative Commons or the EFF are holding events of any kind, we will likely defer to supporting that, rather than holding anything separately. I will keep folks posted. Hi all - sharing with you in this real sense of loss and sadness. It's hard to believe it was just a year ago that the energy around SOPA was everywhere in the Wikimedia movement, and I think it's safe to say that Aaron was so much the nucleus of that energy. Re a blog post - yes, we're working on something now for the Wikimedia blog, but what I think we'd really like to do is point to a community memorial on Wikipedia or meta or wherever, where our community might be recording their thoughts on Aaron. I suspect we would also point to the memorial referenced by his family. Has anyone seen such an on-wiki memorial? Might someone be able to propose/create such a page if it doesn't already exist? There are so many voices in our community who have something to say about Aaron, it would be great to share that. jay -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead
The blog post it out now: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/ On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Official statement from the family: http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-** statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog -Sarah I do not know about a blog post, but a few San Francisco Wikimedians (myself included) are exploring the possibility of holding a quiet, respectful open house next week in honor of Aaron, hosted at the Foundation. I should emphasize that we haven't decided yet, since if Creative Commons or the EFF are holding events of any kind, we will likely defer to supporting that, rather than holding anything separately. I will keep folks posted. Hi all - sharing with you in this real sense of loss and sadness. It's hard to believe it was just a year ago that the energy around SOPA was everywhere in the Wikimedia movement, and I think it's safe to say that Aaron was so much the nucleus of that energy. Re a blog post - yes, we're working on something now for the Wikimedia blog, but what I think we'd really like to do is point to a community memorial on Wikipedia or meta or wherever, where our community might be recording their thoughts on Aaron. I suspect we would also point to the memorial referenced by his family. Has anyone seen such an on-wiki memorial? Might someone be able to propose/create such a page if it doesn't already exist? There are so many voices in our community who have something to say about Aaron, it would be great to share that. jay -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
