email: [email protected] I founded The Wikipedia Library but don't manage it anymore!Reach out to [email protected] or ping User:Samwalton9 (WMF).
I run WikiBlueprint. We work with mission-aligned organizations and companies to help improve open knowledge, open access, public education, media literacy, and especially Wiki English. We work at a high level of strategy, planning, coordination, research, facilitation, and advice.
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Note: I occasionally am asked by companies to give them advice. Sometimes they pay me for this. I often tell them no, or what they cannot do. They do not always listen. I never edit or advocate on their behalf or use any tools from any account to advance their agenda.
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Hi Jake, this is to say thank you for thinking of, creating, and building The Wikipedia Library, which we often take for granted, but before we had it, we were regularly lost without it. It was a big idea and a great idea, and we all have reason to be very grateful that you pursued it and made it happen. All the best, SarahSV (talk) 04:04, 10 September 2019 (UTC) |
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Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi) founded The Wikipedia Library and ran it from 2011-2019. By the time he left the program at the Wiki Foundation, TWL had a half-million dollar budget and 6-person team on 4 continents. Through The Wikipedia Library, Jake developed partnerships with 70 leading scholarly publishers to provide free access to 100,000 scholarly journals and reference texts. 25,000 editors now have access to those sources through the Wikipedia Library Card Platform. Jake created the viral #1Lib1Ref and #1Bib1Ref citation campaigns, which now add 10-20 thousand new references each year from librarians around the world to Wiki English. He started the Wikipedia Visiting scholar program, the Books & Bytes newsletter, the Wikipedia + Libraries facebook group, the Wiki and Libraries Usergroup, and the @WikiLibrary Twitter account.
Jake negotiated the collaboration with Turnitin to fix copyright violations on Wikipedia, started collaboration with Internet Archive to rescue 10 million dead citation links, integrated OCLC ISBN citation data into Wikipedia's reference autogeneration interface, and began a project to add Citoid to Wikidata. He developed the OAbot web app, and is a founding member of the Open Scholarship Initiative. He co-released a dataset of Wikipedia's most cited sources and the proportion of free-to-read sources on Wiki English. Jake created The Wikipedia Adventure interactive guided tutorial and facilitated the first-ever for-credit Wikipedia editing course at Stanford Medical School. He is an English Wikipedia Administrator. 2-time Wiki Foundation grantee, former Individual Engagement Grants Committee member, founding board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation, former Organizing Committee member for Wikicite, Linked Data 4 Libraries Program Committee member, and founder of the Wiki Foundation's Knowledge Integrity Program.
Jake has presented about Wikipedia, citations, and reliability at five Wikimanias, Stanford University, Internet Librarian, the American Library Association, Coalition for Networked Information, Digital Library Forum, OpenCon, OCLC, and IFLA. He is a primary author of "The Plain and Simple Conflict of Interest Guide", "Conflict of Interest editing on Wiki Ocaasi", "Librarypedia: The future of Libraries, and Wiki Ocaasi", "The New Media Coalition Horizon Report for Libraries", "The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation", "Writing an open access encyclopedia in a closed access world", "The Wikipedia Library: The world's largest encyclopedia needs a digital library, and we are building it", "You're a researcher without a library: what do you do?", the Wikipedia "Research Help" portal, "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wiki Ocaasi", and the forthcoming Wikipedia @20 chapter "How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet." He has been interviewed by Publishers weekly in "Discovery Happens Here", Tow Journalism School for "Public Record Under Threat", and was featured in the documentary "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship".
Since starting open knowledge Wikipedia consulting agency WikiBlueprint, Jake has been featured with Jimmy Wales on NPR's TED Radio Hour "The Public Commons". He hosted the Whose Knowledge? Decolonizing the Internet's Languages Podcast. For the WayBack Machine, he helped change Wikimedia's Global Bot Policy to gain InternetArchiveBot Global Approval for expansion to over 300 language wikis. Jake oversaw the Anti-Defamation League's Wikipedia Election Democracy Project and led the rebrand from Open Access Button to OA.Works. He supervised two Wikipedians in Residence at Annual Review, advised Harvard University on their Wikipedia Engagement, worked with the Linux Foundation to draft a key article on computer science, and taught the Wikipedian in Residence at Milton Public Library. Jake led fundraising for Wiki Project Med Foundation, coordinated the Wikipedia:Vaccine Safety Project for NewsQ and Hacks/Hackers, and recruited and trained the Wikipedian in Residence for Perez Art Museum Miami.
— Activist Wael Ghonim
— Aubrey, President of Wiki Italia, on Wikimedia-l after the 2015 Wiki conference in Berlin
— All I Really Needed to Know I Learned Editing Wiki
— Gauntlett, D. (2009). Case study: Wiki English.
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"Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it could never work."
Understanding the vandal-fighting webWiki works because of how many people participate in creating and checking its pages. All changes go through a virtual filter--a gauntlet--of intelligent computer and human review. Thousands of people are constantly scouring new changes, and millions of readers keep an eye out for anything that seems off. Because of this process, research studies have shown that Wikipedia is just as accurate as traditional encyclopedias, but its errors get fixed faster. We are living proof of the coders' motto that "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". In other words, many hands make anything possible! 1. Edit filter (automatic pattern rejection) 2. CBNG (machine-learning artificial neural network bot) 3. Huggle, Igloo, Lupin's filtered list (human assisted regex/badwords) 4. STiki (cbng residual feed, missed vandalism, subtle vandalism--human assisted metadata and pattern based review) 5. Article watchlists, selective page and topic monitoring by users 6. Pending changes, live version delay, reviewed by autoconfirmed users 7. Semi-protection, prevents non-autoconfirmed users from editing 8. Full protection, prevents non-admins from editing 9. Official readers, journalists and subjects of articles who report mistakes in the news (not good!) 10. Random readers, millions of individuals who fix errors when they come upon them |
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