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Episode Synopsis
🕑 1 hour 22 minutes 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. He can be reached at jorlowitzATgmailDOTcom. Links for some of the topics discussed: Jake Orlowitz homepage "How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet" (Jake's chapter of Wikipedia@20, 2019) Welcome to the Circle: the Mental Health Book (Jake Orlowitz, 2019) The Wikipedia Library Page on Wikipedia WikiBlueprint The Wikipedia Adventure GuidedTour MediaWiki extension "The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users" (2017 conference paper, Jake Orlowitz et al.)
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