Phoebe Ayers is a reference librarian at the University of California, Davis, specializing in computer science and engineering. Ayers has an MLIS from the University of Washington. She has been involved with the Wikipedia community since 2003, and has helped organize the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual Wikimania conference in Boston, Taipei, Alexandria, Egypt and Buenos Aires. Ayers is coauthor of How Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It (No Starch Press, September 2008), a GFDL-licensed book about using, understanding, and contributing to Wikipedia. Her interests center around effective use of collaborative tools, and how trustworthy information is created on- and off-line.