Interview with Jake Orlowitz, Founder of The Wikipedia Library
Dear all, Happy to share the interview transcript of Jake Orlowitz, the founder of The Wikipedia Library (TWL). This interview showcases how TWL brought ripples of change in the open knowledge domain. The efforts, content creation practices and usage pattern of Wikipedia content show promising trends of knowledge creation, dissemination and thus achieving open culture. Therefore, Wikipedia negates the perception that it provides free content only, in fact, it drives readers to scholarly literature in a big way. In this interview, Jake has shared amazing facts and trends of Wikipedia and also his personal experiences as a Wikipedian. Please go through the following link and share your valuable comments on the blog. Jake will be happy to read them! Wikipedia is actually driving people to scholarly literature and therefore it is a top 10 referrer to all scholarly articles online: Jake Orlowitz https://openinterview.org/2020/03/12/jake-orlowitz-wikipedia-is-actually-dri... Regards, -- Santosh C. Hulagabali, PhD https://santoshch.weebly.com/ University Librarian Central University of Haryana http://cuh.ac.in/ Jant-Pali, Mahendergarh-123 031 Haryana, India Cell: +91-99874 28147 .. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message.
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Santosh C. Hulagabali