User:Levendowski

Who I Am
I'm an Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. I've been editing Wikipedia since 2011.

Wiki Involvement
In 2011, I began editing in college as part of a course at NYU.

From 2011 to 2014, I volunteered as a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador. As a student at NYU Law, I researched how lawyers and courts treat Wikipedia as a resource, developed best practices for citation to Wikipedia (including filing a comment with the Bluebook Committee on suggested modifications to their citation form), and encouraged lawyers and law students to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. I organized the inaugural Innovation Law and Policy editathon in partnership with the NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. The editathon brought together lawyers, domestic and international law students, activists, and Wikipedians to improve articles about innovation law.

In 2013, I created the article about Revenge porn for a first-of-its-kind independent study at NYU Law. The article qualified for distinguished Did You Know? status by being featured on the Wikipedia English homepage.

In 2015, I was interviewed by 60 Minutes about my experiences as a Wikipedia editor. (As an Easter egg, one of the close-ups focuses on the article about Barbara Ringer, which I substantially edited as part of the WikiCon 2014 editathon.)

In 2020, I integrated editing Wikipedia into the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Seminar at Georgetown Law. I was interviewed about the pedagogical value of editing Wikipedia articles about the law by Ipse Dixit. I was also interviewed about my work integrating Wikipedia editing into my coursework by WikiEducation to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the Wikipedia Student Education Program that got me started editing.

In 2023, I co-authored a law review article about teaching law students to edit Wikipedia.

Articles I've Created or Substantially Edited

 * Barbara Ringer - Substantially edited during WikiCon 2014. The article has just over 10,000 pageviews. I wrote about my experience editing the Barbara Ringer article for The Atlantic.
 * Revenge porn - Created for the first (I believe) law school independent study focused on creating a Wikipedia article in 2013. A New York criminal court judge adopted the definition I developed for the revenge porn article in People v. Barber . The article also qualified for distinguished DYK article status for receiving more than 5,000 pageviews on the date it was featured. Currently, the article has more than 2,780,000 pageviews.


 * FAIR USE Act - Substantially edited during Copyright, Commerce, and Culture class in 2011.