As they say, one Wikipedia post (see post immediately below his one) deserves another Wikimedia Foundation post, directly above it.
What’s up?
The Huffington Post reader’s have selected Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that oversees all Wikimedia projects) Executive Director, Sue Gardner, as media “game changer” of 2009.
Changing The Game By: Taking the people’s online encyclopedia to the next level. Drawing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission of bringing free knowledge to everybody, executive director Gardner is overseeing a strategic plan to broaden access to Wikipedia’s vast storehouse of information. Her battle plan: making Wikipedia easier to use and available to more people worldwide. Expansion takes money, but it helps to be one of the Web’s five most-trafficked sites. In the depths of the recession, the foundation raised $3 million in ten days, completely covering its 2009 operating budget.
Killer Quote: “The smart geeks are always going to be the heart and soul of what we do. But… the goal is to make the whole editing system more user-friendly so we’re not excluding the people who aren’t as tech-centric as our core community.”
Note: Regarding Gardner’s “Killer Quote,” we’ve seen similar comments from Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales. Here’s one example from a recent interview with Silicon.com. One example, of Wikipedia reaching was this event at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
Source: Huffington Post
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