My name is Lane Rasberry. I edited Wikipedia for the first time in 2004 and have been editing regularly since 2008. I think that Wikipedia is a great way to share information on all topics, including health care, consumer rights issues, and science. The best way to learn about editing Wikipedia is to talk with other people about it. Anyone who wants to talk with me can post to my Wikipedia talk page or email me to make an appointment for a phone or video chat.
Everyone who has a stake in community education should be supportive of Wikipedia editors. Since Wikipedia is the world's most popular source of health information for most topics in health, it is the particular responsibility of health educators to consider the influence and impact of Wikipedia in their fields of expertise and to recognize that they must acknowledge and respond to Wikipedia as a communication channel in some way if they are to are to be effective in outreach. Just as Wikipedia is popular among people seeking health information, it influences thought on every topic for which people seek information.
Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia. In this role Lane seeks to support students, faculty, and staff at the university in sharing information in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects. In this way people at the university use Wikipedia to publish to a large audience including students, researchers, journalists, and anyone else doing basic research on a topic.
the Camas pocket gopher, native to my home region of Cascadia and described as ""morose and savage" and "one of the most vicious animals known for its size"
Rasberry, Lane (31 August 2017). "Episode 0004 with Lane Rasberry". Wikijabber (Interview). Interviewed by Sebastian Wallroth. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
I was a recipient of the 2016 Cooke Award for this research. The award is granted annually by vote of the Academy of Medical Educators at the University of California, San Francisco.
Wexelbaum, Rachel; Herzog, Katie; Rasberry, Lane (2015). "Queering Wikipedia". In Wexelbaum, Rachel. Queers Online - LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Sacramento, California: Litwin Books. pp. 61–80. ISBN978-1936117796.
Rasberry, L. (2014). "Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare". BMJ. 348 (apr08 3): g2478–g2478. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478. ISSN1756-1833.
I am one of the organizers of WikiConference North America. I am involved with everything, but in particular -
Rasberry, Lane; Heilman, James; Poore, Sydney; Orlowitz, Jake; Richter, Felix (31 May 2014), "Health Science Panel", WikiConference USA, New York City: Wiki NYC
This one is incomplete and was a mess. I started making articles for government posts in India in 2010. I had a source but later decided that it did not meet WP:RS. I needed a source for top-level Indian government posts, and did not know when I would see anything like that. In 2016 someone came to Wikipedia with Right to Information (India) documents that listed government officials in posts. So far as I know, that person's Right to Information request provided the first published record of lists of high ranking government officers in India to mass media.
February 10: The two Requests for comment on using icons in citation templates to signal accessibility of the cited sources have been closed. One of them was concerned with the behaviour of the citation templates, the other one with the design of the icons. In both cases, consensus was not clear, though some aspects could be agreed upon.