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Jake Orlowitz

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jorlowitzgmail.com

Best 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).