SOC TCH JA Jake Orlowitz Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
AI MDA ECO JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia The Readers Are Leaving Wikipedia. The Money Isn’t. Traffic to the world’s reference library has fallen by about a quarter in three years. The cause is stranger than the headlines suggest…
JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Not Here to Build an Encyclopedia Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, and the twenty-five-year fight over who founded Wikipedia
SOC JA Jake Orlowitz “Wikipedia runs on people. It shouldn’t run over people." Something big is happening .
SOC HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Wikipedia and the Crisis of Knowledge Equity The encyclopedia anyone can edit is also the encyclopedia that reflects who has historically been allowed to write, publish, and be…
MDA JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia The Team That Granted Wishes What the Community Wishlist gave Wikipedia’s editors, tool by tool, and what it meant to be heard.
SOC MDA HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Who Speaks for the People Who Write Wikipedia? In May the Wikimedia Foundation eliminated its Community Tech team, the small group of engineers who built tools for the volunteers who…
SOC JA Jake Orlowitz Thinking of cancelling your Wikipedia donation? Don’t. Read this first. You’re right to be furious about the layoffs, but walking away sends exactly the wrong message.
JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Excavating Early Wikipedia The encyclopedia discovered its rules by living inside them first
SOC JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Four Days to Answer Wikipedia’s American workforce has asked the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize its union. The response, due Friday, will show what the…
MDA TCH JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Wiki Project Medicine Builds Its Own Community Tech Team In May, the Wikimedia Foundation laid off Brooke Vibber. A week later it wound down Community Tech, the small team that existed to build…
SOC HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia What Wikipedia Editors Are Telling the Foundation The protest is a chorus, but there are distinct voices
HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Remember When Wikipedia Was the Biggest Danger to Students? A history of twenty years of panic
JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia The Foundation Giveth and the Foundation Taketh Away A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end…
HUM LIF JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Why Would Anyone Do This for Free? What moves Wikipedia’s unpaid, volunteer editors
JA Jake Orlowitz The Shrinking Hiring Map of the Wikimedia Foundation The Foundation behind Wikipedia cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data…
LIF HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · I Prompted It The Danger of Silence Why do we not speak about something wrong?
SPT JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Stranger in a Strange Land Arriving in Wikipedia as a welcome guest
HUM MDA JA Jake Orlowitz The Most Predictable Edit in History Centralized power keeps failing to foresee what Wikipedia’s community sees at once.
SOC MDA HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · Regarding Wikipedia Is Neutrality a Property of the Wikimedia Foundation? Every Wikipedia article must be written from a neutral point of view, with no thumb pressed on the scale of a contested question.
ECO HUM SOC JA Jake Orlowitz · Project 2029 How We Do What We Do The interior working values of Project 2029
HUM MKT ECO ART JA Jake Orlowitz · WikiBlueprint The Successful Wikipedian in Residence A free, comprehensive guide for institutions
ECO HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · WikiBlueprint Your Company Probably Doesn’t Qualify for a Wikipedia Article Whether you’re a small business owner or a marketing and communications professional at a mid-sized company, you might be wondering why…
AI MKT ECO JA Jake Orlowitz · WikiBlueprint AI and LLMs Have Changed Wikipedia’s Importance Forever For most of its first two decades, Wikipedia was something close to a public utility. People used it to settle bar arguments, look up…
HUM JA Jake Orlowitz · WikiBlueprint WikiBlueprint, and the Only Other Wikipedia Consultant I Trust I run WikiBlueprint. There’s only one other agency I trust or ever refer clients to. It’s my dear competitor, Beutler Ink. Here’s how we’re…
