Jake Orlowitz
Founder at Project 2029
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Orlowitz is a founder and open-knowledge strategist with 11+ years of experience helping institutions, publishers, and nonprofits amplify their mission via ethical Wikipedia and Wikimedia engagement. He leads WikiBlueprint and founded The Wikipedia Library and the Wikimedia Consultants Network, designing programs that place Wikipedians in residence, run high-impact training, and negotiate publisher partnerships that unlocked millions in research access. At the Wikimedia Foundation he built global library partnerships, ran the viral #1lib1ref campaign, and created infrastructure to make citing books and rescuing dead links scalable—work that materially improved Wikipedia’s sourcing. Jake combines hands-on editing experience (40,000+ edits and long-standing admin roles) with program design and recruitment expertise, making him equally fluent with community norms and organizational change. Based in California, he now channels that practitioner-to-policy perspective into Project 2029, applying civic and cultural strategy to long-term systems change. A lesser-known strength: he routinely translates complex publishing and copyright challenges into practical, ethics-first workflows that durableize organizational presence on Wikipedia.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS College of Social Studies, BS College of Social Studies at Wesleyan UniversityLower Merion High School
Nepali
Github Skills (9)
open-access10
wikipedia9
chrome-extension5
google-chrome4
open-science2
chromium2
open-data2
javascript1
testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dissemin/oabot
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Adding links to full text in Wikipedia references
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 months
full-textopen-accesslinkswikipedia
JJDear83/BHL-WIKI-Working-Group
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 15 days
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