I runWikiBlueprint. We work with mission-aligned organizations and companies to help improve open knowledge, open access, public education, media literacy, and especially Wikipedia. We work at a high level of strategy, planning, coordination, training, research, and advice.

My current or past clients include:

• Internet Archive (advancing deadlink fixing using Internet Archive Bot)
• Annual Reviews (publisher) (overseeing a Wikipedian in Residence)
• Anti-Defamation League (basic editing training)
• Harvard University (COI engagement advice, non-editing)
• OA.Works (branding and communications, off-wiki)
• Milton Public Library (Wikipedian in Residence strategy/support)
• Pérez Art Museum Miami (Wikipedian in Residence strategy/support)
• Linux Foundation (Article drafting workshop leading to AfC submission)
• NewsQ Vaccine Safety (community coordinating)
• Equis (Wikipedian in Residence strategy/support)
• Wikimedia Medicine (Fundraising and impact strategy)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Wikipedian in Residence support)
• Bakehouse Arts Complex (Editing training and editathon)

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 buildingThe 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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	noob	involved	been around	veteran	seen it all	older than theCabal itself	where did my life go? oh, have to go check my watchlist...

Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi) foundedThe Wikipedia Library (TWL) and ran it from 2011-2019. By the time he left the program at theWikimedia 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. ''All editors'' with 6-month old accounts and 500 edits now have access to those sources through theWikipedia Library Card Platform.

Jake created the viral#1Lib1Ref (and #1Bib1Ref) citation campaigns, which now add 20 thousand new references each year from librarians around the world to Wikipedia. He started theWikipedia Visiting Scholar program, theBooks & Bytes newsletter, theWikimedia + Libraries Facebook group, theWikimedia and Libraries Usergroup, and the @WikiLibrary social media account.

Jake negotiated the collaboration withTurnitin tofix copyright violations on Wikipedia, started collaboration withInternet Archive torescue 22 million dead citation links, integratedOCLC ISBN citation datainto Wikipedia's reference autogeneration interfaceCitoid, and began the project to add Citoid toWikidata. He developed theOAbot web app, and is a founding member of theOpen Scholarship Initiative where he co-wrote "Information Overload" and"Institutional Repositories". He co-released a dataset of Wikipedia'smost cited sources and the proportion of free-to-read sources on Wikipedia.

Jake createdThe Wikipedia Adventure interactive guided tutorial and facilitated the first-ever for-creditWikipedia editing course at Stanford Medical School. He is an English WikipediaAdministrator. 2-time Wikimedia Foundation grantee, former Individual Engagement Grants Committee member, founding board member ofWiki Project Med Foundation, former Organizing Committee member forWikicite, Linked Data 4 Libraries Program Committee member, and founder of the Wikimedia Foundation'sKnowledge Integrity Program.

Jake has presented about Wikipedia, citations, and reliability at sixWikimanias,Stanford University,UCSF, Internet Librarian, theAmerican Library Association,Coalition for Networked Information,Digital Library Federation,OpenCon, OCLC, andIFLA, and he convened academic library leaders in the firstWikipedia and ARL Summit.

He is a primary author of"The Plain and Simple Conflict of Interest Guide","Conflict of Interest editing on Wikipedia","Librarypedia: The future of Libraries, and Wikipedia","The New Media Coalition Horizon Report for Libraries" from 2014-2017,"The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation", theWikipedia and IFLA White Paper,"Writing an open access encyclopedia in a closed access world", ALA's"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 Wikipedia", OSI reports onInformation Overload and onInstitutional Repositories,"The First 50 Mistakes of a Wikipedian","The Crowdsourcing Fallacy", and the MIT PressWikipedia @20 chapter"How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet."

He has been interviewed byCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies on"Inside Wikipedia",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 agencyWikiBlueprint, Jake has been featured with Jimmy Wales onNPR's TED Radio Hour"The Public Commons". He hosted theWhose Knowledge? Decolonizing the Internet's Languages podcast ''Whose Voices?'' For theWayBack Machine, he helped change Wikimedia's Global Bot Policy to gain InternetArchiveBot Global Approval for expansion to over 300 language wikis. Jake oversaw theAnti-Defamation League's Wikipedia Election Democracy Project and led the rebrand from Open Access Button toOA.Works.

He supervised two Wikipedians in Residence atAnnual Reviews, advisedHarvard University on their Wikipedia Engagement, worked with theLinux Foundation to draft a keyarticle on computer science, and taught the Wikipedian in Residence atMilton Public Library. Jake led impact and fundraising forWiki Project Med Foundation, coordinated theVaccine Safety WikiProject for Hacks/Hackers, and recruited and trained theWikipedian in Residence forPérez Art Museum Miami.

Jake oversaw theWikipedian in Residence for Latino Culture and Community at Equis, launchedInternet-In-A-Box into the Wikimedia Foundationstore (and got itfeatured on BoingBoing), and appeared in the new book"Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online." He is the Vice Chair of theSmithsonian's working group for theBiodiversity Heritage Library and oversaw their Wikipedian in Residence program. He is also a member of theWikiConference North America Program Committee, and built theCitation Watchlist.

Jake is the author oftwo collections on mental health,Welcome to the Circle, andWelcome Back to the Circle. His forthcoming memoir is calledYou're Only as Sick as Your Secrets. He lives inSanta Cruz, CA with his wife, two kids, and two cats.

• Journey of a Wikipedian
• Discovery Happens Here: PW Talks with Wikipedia's Jake Orlowitz
• Jake Orlowitz: Wikipedia is actually driving people to scholarly literature
• How Can Wikipedia Ensure A Safe And Shared Online Space? : NPR
• Whose Voices? Jake Orlowitz on Decolonizing the Internet as a Reparative Movement
• The World According to Wikipedia - S3 Ep27: Jake Orlowitz
• Between the Brackets: Episode 118: Jake Orlowitz
• How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet
• The First 50 Mistakes of a Wikipedian
• Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia
• You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?
• The Crowdsourcing Fallacy
• What is Our Community Wisdom?

• You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.
• You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
• You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
• Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

-Daniel Dennett

1. We are a community of very real people with deep emotions and human complexities.
2. We are deeply invested in our project, so much so it hurts us at times even if it is also a passion or refuge for many.
3. You never know what someone has been through, or is going through.
4. We all need help at some point. There is no shame in needing help, asking for help, or receiving help.
5. If you are ever feeling completely hopeless: Wait. Things really can get better. Talk to someone about it.
6. Mental health carries a powerful stigma. The more we are open about it, the less that weighs all of us down.
7. If we listen, we can learn from each other.
8. We need to be kind. This is a higher calling than civility, and entirely compatible with achieving our goals.
9. Our movement depends on its people. We are our most valuable resource.
10. We are not finished products. With time, space, support, and practice — people can, and do, grow and change.

-Ocaasi

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