We can absolutely customize a part-time or short-term contract that still accomplishes your goals.

We’ve worked on projects that lasted just one month and involved no hiring at all. Or you can find someone who really fits in your organization and keep them for years.

It’s up to you, your needs, and your budget.

We can work small, start small, pilot, and do one-off jobs. We like this work, and we often find the best way to get started is with a small set of image uploads, or a few editathons, or some quality staff trainings.

If you like it, you can aim bigger. And if you already know what your goal is, we can aim high right from the start.

We love turning curious (but maybe nervous) people into deeply knowledgeable, confident editors. Our experts have trained hundreds of people and created leading community tutorials that informed thousands more.

We have a syllabus to start absolutely from scratch and become proficient within 6 weeks. We can work on sustained training to develop expert capacity. We can upskill Wikipedians in Residence, too, because there’s always more to learn.

Editing Wikipedia is a great, stimulating challenge—hard fun, and we will hold your hand through ever step, and every edit.

Working on the margins of knowledge, with groups who have been silenced and oppressed, is hard and sensitive. We make equity a component of every project, if possible, because in the long run we are missing people and their stories from our shared encyclopedia.

In every residency we do, the first step is a full qualitative and statistical assessment of what articles already exist in your topic area, as well as the breakdown by gender, race, geography, and other sociocultural characteristics. Then, while we prioritize high-impact content, we focus on adding biographies of indigenous women artists and women scientists of color, and LGBTQ+ writers and academics.

We’re an English-first but not English-only shop. The main reason for that is despite their being 300 language versions of Wikipedia, 50% of all traffic goes to the English one.

That said, we can and do hire custom fit language specialists. So if you’re a museum in Miami, we can get you a bilingual Wikipedian in Residence, and your museum team can translate into a total of 4 languages, multiplying the impact and the equity.

So, yes. Tell us what you want and we’ll see if we can make it happen.

Almost exclusively. The nonprofit world is so full of amazing knowledge and culture-holding organizations and institutions. There should be thousands of Wikipedians working with their treasures.

However not every nonprofit is “mission-aligned” with the free culture and open knowledge movement.

A nonprofit has to want to share its knowledge for public benefit not just their own. A nonprofit we work with has to follow conflict of interest best practices of disclosure and transparency and balanced editing.

We’re happy to coach people towards an “alignment of interests” where it’s clearly win-win.

Rarely. Indirectly. Only if they’re not evil.

Example: A biotechnology company wants help editing their offline draft to improve its neutrality, citations, and formatting, so it can be submitted to Wikipedia. We’ll do that.

Non-example: You want us to write your promotional article about your company’s boss and edit Wikipedia directly to make it go live without review. No way.

WikiBlueprint is a Sole Proprietorship founded and run by Jake Orlowitz. But Jake is wise enough to know that he is not the most expert expert in everything!

For any project with specialization, either in the arts or sciences, technology, or history, Jake brings in elite editors from his network of colleagues in the open movement.

Whether you need an academic medical librarian to copyedit your draft, or a former Wikipedia classroom trainer to teach your staff, Jake brings on the best to give you world-class support.

You can bring on Jake as a contractor (1099) or a temporary employee (W-2). Meanwhile Jake subcontracts experts chosen just for your project.

We are highly qualified experts, and we work with reasonable expectations for nonprofit organizations.

Small projects might be just 10 hours over a single month at a professional rate, while larger programs might be 20 hours per week for a year and entail the costs of hiring an employee plus consulting fees.

We know our value, but we’re flexible.

Also, if you want to pursue grant funding for a project to hire us, we’ll work pro bono on a contingency basis, to get you the external support you and we both need to move forward.