Grants:Let's Connect Profile/Jake Orlowitz
Jake Orlowitz
jorlowitz
gmail.com
gmail.comBest way to connect: Via email
WikiBlueprint
Participating as: Indivudal
United States • United States and Canada (US&C) region
Preferred times: Wednesday, Thursday (17 - 20 UTC, 21 - 23 UTC)
Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per week
Languages: English
Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community
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Preferred way of learning: By being mentored by an organization with more experience, Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone
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Preferred way of sharing: With one-to-one virtual meeting (1h with one/two people), Accompanying a person or a group for a certain period of time (mentoring)
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I founded The Wikipedia Library, which is really just about 100 partnerships that were formed, maintained, and promoted within the scholarly communications community. By having a compelling pitch, we were able to make it tempting for paywalled publishers to participate in masse in a program that "gives away" their content for the benefit of humanity (and their own knowledge dissemination priorities).