Stephen Harrison

@harrisonstephen

Lawyer and writer. Fascinated by Wikipedia and questions of truth online. Words in , , , etc.

Dallas, TX
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    Mar 28

    My first story for the is out today! It's a feature about two incredible teenagers who work behind the scenes to improve all of the articles about the New York Subway system.

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    Jun 1

    I wrote a piece on my mom and mothering and forgiveness. Take a look and let me know what you think.

    My mother abandoned me as a child. It took having kids of my own for me to forgive her.
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    Jun 5

    I started working on this feature the morning after the U.S. lost to Trinidad in October. Nine months, 40+ interviews, and 10,000 words later, here’s the piece, co-written and reported with

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  4. May 18

    From 's fabulous story: "Everything we do is political, everything that we choose to present is political and editing Wikipedia is political in and of itself." --

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    May 17

    Thrilled to have upgraded the Wikipedia portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning Iranian photographer [[Jahangir Razmi]] who won in 1980, but could not be named until 2006. Pulitzers gave their first "anonymous" prize that year.

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    May 14

    A “liberal” hotel is opening up in Washington D.C.—is that a good thing? My feature for the new issue of .

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    May 14

    Twitter bots powered by : An interview with Darius Kazemi (), internet artist and creator of .

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  8. May 11

    “The user who made the changes on Wikipedia made them from a mobile phone, the site’s history shows. Because phone IPs can change as users move between locations, it’s impossible to know if the user had made other edits previously or since.”

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  9. May 8

    New favorite term: WikiOgre. Normally makes few edits, but goes on an editing "rampage" once in a while.

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    May 7

    STORY FIRST: Maybe 1 in 10 works of narrative non-fic (NNF) merit book-length treatment. Not b/c author doesn't have Phd-level knowledge of context & history, but b/c s/he fails to gather that critical mass of STORY content req'd for book-length plot & character development...

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    May 7

    Last Stop for Wikipedia’s Feuding Editors—Online High Court via

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  12. May 7

    Fascinating read by on Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee with insights from the longest-serving ArbCom member (and real life litigator) Ira Matetsky

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  13. May 6

    I’m afraid of a world where we are all too tired to be kind.

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  14. May 5

    “Phoebe Ayers, a librarian at MIT...hosted a Wikipedia editathon to bolster the articles on topics such as breastfeeding, breast pumps, and maternal health and caregiving—a corrective for the online encyclopedia’s gender bias.”

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    May 4

    “What has alarmed me throughout this episode has been the willingness of my fellow citizens to rationalize the President's behavior even as they suspected, and later knew, he was lying.'' -James Dobson, an avid Trump supporter, speaking of Bill Clinton

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  16. May 3

    A single academic paper, published by three Australian researchers in 2007, has been cited by editors over 2.8 million times.

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    May 2

    It has been one year since Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey. Today, we commemorate this loss of knowledge. Share this video and let the world know that .

    A year without Turkey
    April 2018 marks one year that Wikipedia has been blocked across all languages in Turkey.
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    Apr 30

    7 out of the top 10 most-visited English Wikipedia pages yesterday had to do with the Marvel universe. 1. Avengers: Infinity War 3. Carol Danvers 4. List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films 5. Untitled Avengers film 6. Thanos 7. Marvel Cinematic Universe (1/2)

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  19. Apr 30

    "At the end of the day, however much information wants to be free, writers still want to get paid."

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  20. Apr 30

    "In this era, where we've seen the rise of these fake news websites and so forth, Wikipedia has had almost no problems with this at all," Wales says. "Simply because our community[...] it's their hobby to debate about the quality of sources.”

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    Apr 25

    If there’s one piece of writing advice I come back to again and again it’s this: cash your check within 90 days.

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