Great to hear about this (again)! :) Congratulations, Jake.
Subha
User:Psubhashish & Founder, @WeAreWikipedia
Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society
On 07.10.2014 18:40, Sydney Poore wrote:
Happy dance!!!! This is awesome news! Congratulations,
Jake.
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Dear friends and colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Jake Orlowitz
(User:Ocaasi, User:Ocaasi (WMF)) is joining the Grantmaking department at WMF to lead The
Wikipedia Library (TWL)[1 [1]], an online resource for Wikipedians to get free access to
journal subscriptions. In the last year, TWL has helped nearly 2000 unique users access
3000 accounts of sources like JSTOR, Elsevier, De Gruyter, and Oxford University Press,[2]
and is now experimenting with community-run branches in Arabic, German and other
languages. Jake will be a full-time contractor with part-time support from Alex Stinson
(User:Sadads, User:Astinson (WMF)) for an initial period of six months. They are both
working with an amazing volunteer team of Wikipedians guided by Head of Volunteer
Coordination (User:Nikkimaria). We're particularly looking forward to seeing how TWL
can expand its global (non-English) work, and what it can teach us about the best ways to
support some of our top contributors, and improve
content on our projects. Many of
you know Jake well, but for those who don't: Jake (Ocaasi) is a long time Wikipedian,
with two Individual Engagement Grants from us, and he has been on the IEG grants committee
for the past two years. Jake works remotely from Philadelphia but is frequently in the Bay
Area, especially during long and dark East Coast winters. Alex has been involved for many
years with both Education and GLAM outreach. He resides in Kansas where he works on
Digital Humanities at Kansas State. You can catch up on all of TWL's new happenings in
the latest edition of the Books and Bytes newsletter.[7] We're excited to bring The
Wikipedia Library on board and look forward to its growth and evolution! Warmly, Anasuya
Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi) started editing in 2007 as an ip. Early on he worked on
articles about religious groups, political movements, and alternative health. Around 2010
he shifted focus from editing to helping new users, working in the irc-help channel and
developing the Plain and Simple guide for New Editors [3 [2]] and its COI counterpart [4
[3]]. In 2012 Jake began developing projects through the Individual Engagement Grants
department at WMF. He built The Wikipedia Adventure,[5 [4]] a playful interactive game to
onboard new editors. He also began establishing and expanding donation partnerships in The
Wikipedia Library to provide free research access to top article contributors. He helps
out as a board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation [6 [5]] and gives talks about
Wikipedia's role in education. Jake grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and studied
political theory at Wesleyan, before starting a tutoring company in Colorado. He currently
splits his time between coasts, working full-time on Wikipedia projects. His contract with
WMF will focus on expanding the number and global reach of Wikipedia Library partnerships.
Alex Stinson (User:Sadads) is a 9-year editor with over 80,000 contributions, actively
involved in different forms
of outreach. He is currently a project manager with the The Wikipedia Library, a long time
volunteer with The Wikipedia Education Program, and supporter of GLAM-Wiki outreach. Alex
has a Masters degree in English Literature from Kansas State University with research
focused on cultural studies and the digital humanities. He works as a digital humanist at
K-State, where he helps develop projects and create partnerships with educators and
cultural institutions. [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library [1] [2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Fi… [6] [3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PANDS [2] [4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PSCOI [3]
[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure [4] [6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WPMED [5] [7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Au…
[7] -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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