Episode 118: Jake Orlowitz

<p><img style="padding: 5px; float: right;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/115190/Jake-Orlowitz-BTB.png" alt="Jake Orlowitz" width="140" height="140" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: #34495e;">🕑 1 hour 22 minutes</span></p> <p>Jake Orlowitz is the lead of the management consulting company WikiBlueprint. Before founding WikiBlueprint, he worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, where his projects included The Wikipedia Library and The Wikipedia Adventure. He has been open about his former struggles with mental health, and Wikipedia's role in helping him overcome them.</p> <p>Links for some of the topics discussed:</p> <ul> <li>"<a href= "https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/k3dp712w/release/17">How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet</a>" (Jake's chapter of <em>Wikipedia@20</em>, 2019)</li> <li><a href="https://www.jakeorlowitz.com/book/"><em>Welcome to the Circle: the Mental Health Book</em></a> (Jake Orlowitz, 2019)</li> <li><a href="https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/">The Wikipedia Library</a> <ul> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library">Page on Wikipedia</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.wikiblueprint.com/">WikiBlueprint</a></li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure">The Wikipedia Adventure</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour">GuidedTour</a> MediaWiki extension</li> <li>"<a href= "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313738611_The_Wikipedia_Adventure_Field_Evaluation_of_an_Interactive_Tutorial_for_New_Users">The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users</a>" (2017 conference paper, Jake Orlowitz et al.)</li> </ul>