Karyn Gladstone

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Karyn Gladstone Director of Community Operations, Wikimedia Foundation

About me Karyn Gladstone joined the Wikimedia Foundation in November, 2011 as the Director of Community Operations. Karyn is deeply embedded in the non-profit and open-source communities, and brings years of experience in non-profit technology project management and strategy to her work at the Foundation.

My work Karyn leads a new cross-functional team focused on conducting small, rapid experiments in search of the silver bullet(s) that will increase editor retention on the projects. Karyn's team is engaged in deep community, product, and policy thinking -- translating those ideas into testing different ways to approach editor retention. Disclaimer: Although I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account do not necessarily represent the actions or views of the Foundation unless expressly stated otherwise. For example, edits to articles or uploads of other media are done in my individual, personal capacity unless otherwise stated.

Contact me E-mail: kgladstonewikimedia.org On irc.freenode.net (as 'thekaryn') in #wikimedia-e3 and #wikimedia-dev channels On English Wikipedia as Kgladstone (WMF) LinkedIn Profile

Props & Love!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Presented to Karyn's team, through her, for their excellent work on identifying and experimenting with ways to fix the editor decline on Wikipedia. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 05:06, 14 April 2012 (UTC)