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People - Merav Opher. Margo Seltzer, Gretchen Sisson, Maia Weinstock, Ellen Kooijman

=> transclusion options for this? something more direct than bot-edits-to-page (that still has snapshots)?

Hello!

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Caila Quinn

Caila Quinn is a Filipino-American actress and saleswoman known for her appearances on the American reality TV series The Bachelor.

Early life and history

Quinn's father, Chris Quinn, runs a toymaking company. She attended Boston College, graduating with a degree in Marketing. She began her career as a software sales representative before becoming better known for her work in reality television.

Acting and media career

In 2016, Quinn was part of the 20th season of The Bachelor, where she finished as the second runner-up. In 2017 she also featured in the comedy streaming series Squad Wars, and began building a presence on Instagram. She returned to the Bachelor franchise in the third season of Bachelor in Paradise, but left in week 5.

Personal life

After a public relationship with Jared Haibon, she married businessman Nick Burrello in 2021. They have a child.

Hartl

Michael Hartl is the author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial and the Learn Enough series of programming guides. He founded a number of companies, including Softcover, a publishing system for technical authors, and Quark Sports, a fantasy sports league. He also wrote The Tau Manifesto, proposing that τ = 2π is a better circle constant, which inspired an annual celebration of Tau Day, and the inclusion of τ as a constant in some programming languages.

Life and work

Hartl got a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, where he taught theoretical and computational physics.

In 2007 he published RailsSpace, a book and video tutorial for building social networking sites with Ruby on Rails. He was an alumnus of Y Combinator in 2008, developing social network platform Insoshi. Starting in 2010, he published a series of Ruby books and tutorials, including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. In 2013 he founded Softcover, a company offering an open-source publishing platform for techhnical books. A series of introductory programming books were published under the Learn Enough label. In 2022, Softcover and Learn Enough were acquired by Hamming College, a newly founded online college, allowing Hamming to offer an accredited degree in computer science.

Jim Nason

Nason at Glad Day Bookshop, November 2023.

Jim Nason is a Canadian author and poet, and the owner of Tightrope Books in Toronto. His stories, essays and poems have been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and the U. S., including Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2008, 2010 and 2014.

Works

Eight poetry collections, three novels, and a short story collection.

Poetry:

• Self Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast (Frontenac)
• Blue Suitcase: Documentary Poetics (Mansfield)
• If Lips Were as Red (Palmerston),
• Music Garden (Frontenac),
• Narcissus Unfolding (Frontenac ),
• Touch Anywhere to Begin (Signature Editions),
• the Fist of Remembering (Wolsack and Wynn),
• Rooster, Dog, Crow (Frontenac, 2018);

Novels:

• I Thought I Would be Happy (Tightrope Books)
• the Housekeeping Journals (Turnstone Press)
• Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals (Signature Editions);

Short stories:

• the Girl on the Escalator (Tightrope Books).  

References

• Interview w/ KIRBY

Lightning

A clarifying comment, too late to include inline:

The real discussion here should be whether the article should be titled "Wikimedia community" (matching Wikipedia community) or "Wikimedia movement".

There is a large, international, prolific, long-lived, and widely researched and reported on community of wiki editors. That community works fluidly on one or more of the wikimedia projects, united by both shared infrastructure and unified login. It has variously described itself and been described by others as a community and as a movement -- and this is what is described in the article.

The current title seems fine to me, given recent usage. In French, "mouvement" may have a bit more of the connotation of "community" than it does in English, contributing to the phrase being so widely adopted there. But I could also see the article being titled Wikimedia community and having a section on Community vs Movement over the years. Currently Wikipedia movement redirects to Wikipedia community, for instance.

Plastic fishing

Everwave

Based in Germany, working in Romania and Cambodia. As of 2023, focused on preventing plastic garbage from entering the Pacific. They work with Collectix garbage-capturing boats, and report capturing 900 metric tons, mostly in Cambodia in 2023.

Plastic Fischer

A German group founded in 2019 to capture plastic in rivers. They builds inexpensive plastic trash booms designed to work with local materials. They are focused on India and Indonesia; as of 2023, they report 700 tons cleaned up. Some of this is in partnership with volunteer and education charity River Cleanup.

The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup is an environmental non-profit founded in 2013 that designs and deploys barriers and collector boats to capture plastic in oceans and rivers. They are the largest and best known project in the English-speaking world. They publish videos of their work, and have partnered with both youtube celebrities for visibility and local manufacturers in countries where they work, aiming for scale. They have also published research on the composition and lifecycle of plastic waste in water worldwide, and maintain a map of the major plastic hotspots in the oceans.

As of 2023, they reported 3500 tons of total plastic waste cleaned up, including 150 tons from the Pacific garbage patch (mostly 2022), and 850 tons from one river in Guatemala (2023).

River Ocean Cleanup

Cambodia. Seems scammy. Claims work with Everwave + River Cleanup, 5 nationwide events w 700k participants (!) and 700 tons collected. May be double counting the success of those partners.

Sungai Watch

Sungai Watch is a non-profit based in Bali, focused on removing plastic from rivers in Indonesia before it reaches the ocean. They install trash barriers on the surface of rivers and remove the flotsam they collect. As of 2023, they have installed over 150 river barriers, capturing 800 metric tons of plastic and 400 tons of organic waste.