Community Organizer at @Wikimedia, the non-profit behind @Wikipedia. Former Portlander, novice Californian. Interested in spontaneous acts of collaboration.

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stevenwalling Portuguese-speaking Wikipedians are now my favorite because they often sign posts with "Abraços!", which just means hugs. #WikiLove

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stevenwalling Power outage at Church and Market. Whole city blocks down.

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stevenwalling I have no words. http://t.co/9p3HfMwm

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stevenwalling To replace our awful template markup language on Wikipedia, we chose Lua as the replacement. Redditors dissect: http://t.co/NqjwFYJa

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stevenwalling OH: "I once bribed a train conductor to get into Poland." (I love my coworkers.)

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stevenwalling If you go to the English Wikipedia home page, you can now get RSS/Atom feeds of the specific featured content areas. http://t.co/syM2rBbX

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stevenwalling Seven Lessons from SOPA/PIPA/Megaupload and Four Proposals on Where We Go From Here, by Yochai Benkler http://t.co/f2Ion3Nm

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stevenwalling Cool visualization of a slice of the #WikipediaBlackout tweets: http://t.co/30DUXb0f

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stevenwalling Wikipedia access is now free to 70 million @Orange users in Africa and the Middle East. http://t.co/sdTGMIWU

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stevenwalling Which is not to say I think the currently entrenched textbook industry is ideal at all.

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stevenwalling Make no mistake. What you're giving up when you buy a cheaper textbook from Apple is the freedom to lend, resell, and reuse your textbooks.

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stevenwalling A note on bravery, from @jimmy_wales -- http://t.co/jrp2s1qN

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stevenwalling Nerds! @CreativeCommons needs a CTO. Which means @Wikipedia and all CC projects need someone too. Spread the word. http://t.co/3tB0QEMy

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stevenwalling Android users: @Wikipedia now has an official app with lots of cool features, like location search and bookmarks. https://t.co/I3kFl5sf

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stevenwalling Just in time for our SF hackathon starting tonight, @Wikimedia tech events now have an anti-harassment policy. https://t.co/ME7Oh1cE

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stevenwalling Yes, there is a site outage happening right now for Wikipedia. No, it is not intentional.

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stevenwalling "The message from the Wikipedia Blackout: Please leave the Internet alone" -- fantastic postmortem from @SuePGardner http://t.co/XufUVDUY

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stevenwalling To be 100% clear: the #wikipediablackout was it. Wikipedia isn't a lobby. We just want to be left alone so we can write an encyclopedia.

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stevenwalling The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA http://t.co/qnfjeTUa

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stevenwalling In other news, Jaron Lanier still butthurt for no justifiable reason. http://t.co/44eUS04z

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stevenwalling How Wikipedia Turned Off the Lights, by @nytimesbits -- http://t.co/7YlSlHDg #WikipediaBlackout

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stevenwalling More than 90 million people have seen the #WikipediaBlackout. Four million have looked up their rep's contact info. http://t.co/DppMgqtI

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stevenwalling Someone needs to write a Twitter bot replying to the poor souls of @herpderpedia that the #wikipediablackout will be over tomorrow.

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stevenwalling FYI: one page not part of the #wikipediablackout is the article on SOPA. http://t.co/xzblwhtt

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stevenwalling Today is the day that we will know what it feels like to imagine a world without free knowledge.

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