Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators
The Wikipedia Library
Library Coordination:
Join a team of library helpers, research experts, and project organizers
How the library is coordinated[edit]
TWL works because of the amazing volunteer resources in our community. You can help with managing and expanding this project:
- Library coordinators help organize projects
- Account coordinators manage donations
- University coordinators contact academic institutions
- Metrics coordinators analyze source usage
- Partner coordinators contact donors
- we need you
- Research coordinators run reference services
- we need you
- Technical coordinators and advisors build tools to improve research
- User:Protonk, advisor on developing the Library card platform
To become a coordinator or to start a TWL satellite in your own language, please get in touch with User:Ocaasi (jorlowitz
gmail.com).
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
I started working on library outreach in 2011 when I contacted HighBeam Reference for an account. They said, "How about 1000?" I was hooked. I started managing and expanding research account donations. To combine and extend our many library-related projects into a shared, helpful, and powerful universe of resources, I started The Wikipedia Library in 2012 and have continued to work on it through a WMF Individual Engagement grant in 2013. I'm a passionate believer in free culture and open knowledge--and a cheerleader for universal access, scientific and cultural literacy, and all kinds of research.
skills: I'm a connector and organizer. My strength is in finding ways to unite people to share their talents with the community. I'd like to help coordinate our community of passionate library and research experts to build a powerful, open, and free hub for conducting the vital work they do, and helping others join in, too.
Patrick Earley
I am a librarian in the public system in Vancouver, Canada. I have been editing Wikipedia since late 2008. My desire is for Wikipedia to be not only the world's largest free repository of knowledge, but a reliable source of information as well. Libraries provide the raw materials to build reliable articles. I'd like to be part of the process of bringing libraries and Wikipedia editors together.
skills: Community organizing, outreach to libraries, experience with library cataloguing, metadata, knowledge of databases and bibliographic resources
Alex Stinson
I am the project manager for the Wikipedia Library, which means I help Jake build access to resources and expand programs within the Wikipedia Library. Before doing the work, I have been a long time Wikipedia contributor, with over 80,000 edits and tons of maintenance work and content creation on Wikipedia (if you want to see some of that work check out User:Sadads). However, my more important than my digital contributions to the community has been my outreach efforts: I was in the first batch of WP:Wikipedia Education Program volunteers, helped the UK community develop a similar program, and have actively supported GLAM outreach with a number of organizations, including most recently, The William Blake Archive. I am in the Wikipedia community to make academic work from students and researchers part of the "public" conversation. Mostly, I focus on the humanities (especially how the humanities interprets humanist information), because it is a sorely under-represented in Wikipedia.
skills: Outreach, selling Wikipedia to academics, Education planning, content development, and many other things.
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ChrisGualtieri
I am a researcher who likes to work in a variety of areas on Wikipedia. I joined The Wikipedia Library to return my appreciation for the access to sources which have helped improved articles in various subjects including my academic interests.
skills: Finding resources and assisting new editors
Nikkimaria
I'm a long-term Wikipedian and researcher with interests in library science and open access
skills: research, writing, editing
Merrilee Proffitt
I'm work for OCLC, a non profit that is committed to helping libraries effectively share resources, collaborate, and cut costs. I work in OCLC Research and have had the priviledge of working with our Wikipedian in Residence. I've worked in libraries since 1988 and I'm passionate about making our fabulous library resources more available to the public. On the Wikipedia side, I've had an account since 2005; while I'm not a super active editor, I do what I can. I'm an active member of the GLAM-US Consortium Advisory Group.
skills: I love to talk to librarians and archivists about how to leverage Wikipedia. I've been talking to librarians about their interest in this project. If you would like to talk to me, consider me your friendly library colleague!
User:Philg88
I am a published author and long-term contributor to Wikipedia with experience in article creation and improvement. I have successfully used the Wikipedia Library to improve article referencing.
skills: Researching, writing, copyediting and assisting new editors
User:HazelAB
I'm an academic librarian by profession. I've been on Wikipedia since 2011, mostly doing content creation and copy editing, including checking and fixing citations. I'm delighted that publishers and content providers are working with Wikipedia and I look forward to helping that happen.
skills: Helping editors get access to the information resources they need to make Wikipedia even better
Chris Troutman
I learned about TWL when I became a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar. I've been a Campus Ambassador for years and I love bringing academic audiences to Wikipedia and getting Wikimedians academic resources. I got used to having academic resources for improving Wikipedia when I was a student at Loyola Marymount University so I want to help others get that sort of information.
skills: responsive outreach
Pratyya Ghosh
I know about this project from it's starting. So this project means something to me. I am a student from Bangladesh and my mother language is Bengali.
skills: writing, editing, coding and I'm helpful
