Bio

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Sample bios of me: (current as of Feb. 2009)

• short:

Phoebe Ayers is a science and engineering reference librarian at the University of California, Davis. She's been involved with Wikipedia since 2003, particularly helping with the international Wikimania conferences. She recently coauthored a book called "How Wikipedia Works."

• longer:

Phoebe Ayers is a reference and collections librarian at the University of California, Davis, where she specialize in computer science and electrical engineering resources. Ayers has an MLIS from the University of Washington. She has been involved with Wikipedia since 2003 as an editor and community member. For the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's parent organization, she has helped organize the Foundation's annual international conferences since 2006 (in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taipei, Taiwan; Alexandria, Egypt; and Buenos Aires, Argentina). Ayers recently coauthored a book about the English-language Wikipedia called How Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It (No Starch Press, September 2008). The book covers using, understanding, and contributing to Wikipedia; it is only the second book to be published about the site, and is freely licensed. Ayers' interests center around the effective use of collaborative tools (such as wikis) within communities, and how trustworthy information and knowledge is created, on- and off-line.