restincode/people/aaronswartz.json
mauvehed 6c4f1221ae chore(data): normalize all people JSON files to match template schema
Add missing obituary and affiliations fields, convert empty string
collection fields to empty arrays, and standardize field ordering
across all 44 modified person files to match _template.json
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{
"firstname": "Aaron",
"lastname": "Swartz",
"handle": "",
"birth": "1986",
"death": "2013",
"obituary": "",
"issue": "7",
"affiliations": "",
"mainimage": "/images/y3t1_Art-Aaron_Swartz.png",
"maintext": "<p>Aaron Swartz was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, and the website framework web.py, and was a co-founder of the social news site Reddit. He was given the title of co-founder by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham after the formation of Not a Bug, Inc. (a merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Reddit, a company run by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman).</p>",
"socialmedialinks": [
{
"sitename": "Twitter",
"siteurl": "https://www.twitter.com/aaronsw"
},
{
"sitename": "Website",
"siteurl": "http://www.aaronsw.com/"
}
],
"contributions": [
{
"title": "Aaron's Law",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#Aaron_Swartz",
"description": "In the wake of the prosecution and subsequent suicide of Aaron Swartz (who used a script to download scholarly research articles in excess of what JSTOR terms of service allowed), lawmakers proposed amending the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act."
},
{
"title": "Watchdog.net",
"url": "https://watchdog.net/",
"description": "The good government site with teeth"
}
],
"gallery": [
{
"url": "/images/Aaron_Swartz-wikipedia.jpg",
"title": "Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wikipedia Meetup in 2009",
"caption": "Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wikipedia Meetup in 2009"
}
]
}