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The Wikimedia Foundation '''Board of Trustees''' manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (cf. [[Bylaws#Section 1. General Powers.|article IV, sec. 1]] of the [[Bylaws|Wikimedia Foundation bylaws]]) and currently consists of [[#Current members|ten Trustees]].
The Wikimedia Foundation '''Board of Trustees''' oversees the foundation and its work, as its [[Bylaws#Section 1. General Powers.|ultimate corporate authority]].


== Structure ==
On Meta there is a [[m:WMF Board portal|portal]] and [[m:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard|noticeboard]] for the Board, with recent updates on its activity.
The Board was formed in 2003 with three Trustees, and now consists of up to [[#Current members|ten Trustees]]. Its work is captured in part in [[Resolutions|resolutions]] and votes.
It appoints four officers: a [[Chair]] and Vice Chair (who have to be Trustees), and a [[Treasurer]] and [[Secretary]] (who do not). Other work is delegated to its committees, including Board Governance, Audit, and Human Resources committees.


[[Board of Trustees/Restructure Announcement|Since 2008]], the Board has seats for ten Trustees:
== History ==
* one founder's seat (reserved for [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]);
The Board of Trustees began sometime in 2003 with three members. Over time, it expanded in size; as of 2008 it has ten members.
Much of the body's history can be found in Board [[Resolutions|resolutions]] and votes.

== Roles and structure ==
As [[Bylaws#ARTICLE V - OFFICERS AND DUTIES|defined in the bylaws]], the Board elects officers who have one of four roles:
* [[Treasurer]]
* [[Chair]] and Vice Chair (both need to be [[Board member]]s)
* [[Secretary]] - <small>[[:File:Secretary_Delegation.pdf|Delegation]]</small>

As [[Board of Trustees/Restructure Announcement|announced in 2008]], the Board now consists of ten Trustees:
* three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]];
* two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]];
* two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]];
* three seats elected directly by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; and
* one Board-appointed "community founder" seat (reserved for [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]); and
* four Board-appointed "specific expertise" seats.
* four seats appointed by the rest of the Board for specific expertise

== Contacting the Board ==
A Board [[m:WMF Board portal|portal]] and [[m:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard|noticeboard]] on Meta offer recent updates and a place to share requests and recommendations. To contact the Foundation, see our [[Contact us|contact information]]. To contact the Board directly, post to the noticeboard, or write to WMFboard{{@}}wikimedia.org.


== Current members ==
== Current members ==

=== Kat Walsh ===
=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===
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| name = Kat Walsh
| name = Jan-Bart de Vreede
| image = Kat Walsh Nov 2010.JPG
| image = Jan Bart de Vreede Nov 2010.JPG
| term = July 2013
| term = December 2015
| position = Chair
| position = Chair
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[[w:en:User:Kat Walsh|Kat Walsh]] is an attorney and Wikimedian in the Washington, DC area. Her areas of focus include free content licensing, software freedom, access to knowledge, and freedom of speech. She is currently Legal Counsel at [//creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] and was previously a technology policy analyst at the American Library Association. She is an alumna of [[w:en:George Mason University School of Law|George Mason University School of Law]] and of [[w:en:Stetson University|Stetson University]], and is currently a member of the Virginia State Bar and the US Patent Bar.


[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] is from Gouda in the Netherlands. de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, but he also lived in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (3), Matthias (8) and Ruben (11).
Walsh has presented at numerous conferences on topics including privacy, copyright, volunteerism, and online collaboration. She has participated in all but the first Wikimania, and at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, the Library of Congress, a few universities and government agencies, and the Creative Commons summit. She is also an accomplished bassoonist and violist, performing regularly in orchestras and chamber ensembles.


For the past 10 years, he has worked at the [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] in the Netherlands, a publicly-funded Dutch organization tasked with the promotion of IT use in education to help solve some of the major challenges in the field. At Kennisnet, de Vreede is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and [http://www.wikiwijs.nl/task/international.psml Wikiwijs]. Most of his time at Kennisnet is spent on the Wikiwijs project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources by offering them a platform to find, create and share OER materials.
Walsh first became involved with the Wikimedia Foundation by volunteering on the [[w:en:Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team|e-mail response team]], where she helped resolve some of the legal issues the Wikimedia Foundation faced. Her efforts here sparked her interest in copyright and Internet policy and led to her interest in Internet law.


He has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet, and he has long been involved with the community aspects of the various projects. He has attended every Wikimania (an experience he describes as both exhausting and invigorating). After attending his first Wikimania, he was quickly convinced that this was a special group of people who were doing something extraordinary. When the chance came to be a part of the movement, he jumped at it.
Walsh was appointed to a partial term on the Board of Trustees in December of 2006 when the board expanded to seven members. She was then chosen as a community-elected Trustee in June 2007, re-elected in August 2009, and again in 2011. She currently serves on the HR committee, and was the Executive Secretary from 2008 to 2009. In 2012, Walsh was elected Chair of the Board.


In December 2006, de Vreede joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He has served as Vice-chair since August 2011, and he also held the position from January 2007 until July 2010. He was instrumental in hiring the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director and he considers this process as an important element in transitioning from an operating board in the early days to one that could manage larger meta issues. He also notes that restructuring the Board gave them the opportunity to include chapter-selected board members, which has increased the diversity of the board as a whole.
While on the board, Walsh has focused her attention on strengthening the [[Resolution:Licensing policy|licensing policy]] and the updated [[terms of use]]. She was also instrumental in guiding Wikimedia Foundation messaging during the [[English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout|SOPA/PIPA]] discussions and she [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-the-media-and-so-are-you/2012/02/09/gIQAfNW81Q_story.html co-authored] an important op-ed with Jimmy Wales in the ''Washington Post''.


Walsh contributes primarily on English Wikipedia, where she has over 11,000 edits, over 70 article creations, and where she serves as a site administrator. Her current term on the board will continue until 2013.
de Vreede was re-elected Vice Chair of the Board in July 2012, and he was elected as Chair of the Board in August 2013. His current term will continue until December 2015.
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=== Jan-Bart de Vreede ===
=== Phoebe Ayers ===
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| name = Phoebe Ayers
| image = Jan Bart de Vreede Nov 2010.JPG
| image = Phoebe in front of the Wikipedia globe, 2010-06-15.jpg
| term = December 2013
| term = July 2015
| position = Vice Chair
| position = Vice Chair
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Phoebe Ayers is a reference, instruction and collections librarian at the University of California, Davis, specializing in computer science, physics and engineering information resources. Her interests include open access and access to scientific knowledge, the effective use of collaborative tools (such as wikis) within communities, and how trustworthy information and knowledge is created and used both on- and off-line. She had been at UCD since 2005, and has been served in UC-wide, regional and national library organizations. She has a BA in English literature and history and a MLIS from the University of Washington, Seattle.


[[w:en:User:Phoebe|Phoebe]] has been a Wikimedian since 2003, when she made her first edits on the English Wikipedia. Starting in 2006 she has been heavily involved in the planning of the annual international Wikimania conference, assisting with organization and facilitating the jury that chooses the conference location. She was also a member of the Special Projects Committee in 2006, has been a contributing writer for the English Wikipedia newsletter "The Signpost", has organized local meetups and events, and has given many talks about Wikipedia for library groups and others. She has also been involved in the wiki research community, chairing [http://www.wikisym.org/ WikiSym 2010]. Most recently she's been involved in efforts to help libraries work effectively with the Wikimedia projects, including founding a mailing list devoted to the topic, planning training workshops, and sitting on the North American Glam-Wiki advisory board. She continues to be an active editor, contributing to the English Wikipedia and other projects.
[[User:Jan-Bart|Jan-Bart de Vreede]] is from Gouda in the Netherlands. de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, but he also lived in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (3), Matthias (8) and Ruben (11).


In 2008, she co-authored a [http://howwikipediaworks.net book] about the English-language Wikipedia titled "How Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It" (No Starch Press). The book covers using, understanding, and contributing to Wikipedia; it is freely licensed and is only the second book in English to be published about the site.
For the past 10 years, he has worked at the [http://www.kennisnet.nl/ Kennisnet Foundation] in the Netherlands, a publicly-funded Dutch organization tasked with the promotion of IT use in education to help solve some of the major challenges in the field. At Kennisnet, de Vreede is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and [http://www.wikiwijs.nl/task/international.psml%20 Wikiwijs]. Most of his time at Kennisnet is spent on the Wikiwijs project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources by offering them a platform to find, create and share OER materials.


Phoebe was selected as a trustee by the Wikimedia chapters in 2010, and served a two-year term. She was selected to serve as Board Secretary in 2011. After her term ended in 2012, she ran for a community-elected seat in 2013 and was re-elected for a two-year term.
He has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet, and he has long been involved with the community aspects of the various projects. He has attended every Wikimania (an experience he describes as both exhausting and invigorating). After attending his first Wikimania, he was quickly convinced that this was a special group of people who were doing something extraordinary. When the chance came to be a part of the movement, he jumped at it.


In December 2006, de Vreede joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He has served as Vice-chair since August 2011, and he also held the position from January 2007 until July 2010. He was instrumental in hiring the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director and he considers this process as an important element in transitioning from an operating board in the early days to one that could manage larger meta issues. He also notes that restructuring the Board gave them the opportunity to include chapter-selected board members, which has increased the diversity of the board as a whole.

de Vreede was re-elected Vice Chair of the Board in July 2012 and his current term will continue until December 2013.
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=== Stu West ===
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| position = Member
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[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board and has served as its Treasurer in April 2008; he also served as Vice-Chair from July 2010 to August 2011. He brings over 18 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and lives in the San Francisco bay area.
[[User:Stu|Stu West]] joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008 and served as its Treasurer from April 2008 to October 2012; he also served as Vice-Chair from July 2010 to August 2011. He brings over 18 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and lives in the San Francisco bay area.
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| name = Bishakha Datta
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| image = Bishakha Datta Nov 2010.JPG
| term = December 2012
| term = December 2014
| position = Secretary
| position = Member
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Bishakha Datta is a non-fiction writer and documentary filmmaker with diverse, international experience. She is dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture, particularly the perspectives of women who are marginal or invisible. She received a BA in Economics and an MA in English Literature from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]], as well as an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]].
[[w:en:Bishakha Datta|Bishakha Datta]] is a non-fiction writer and documentary filmmaker with diverse, international experience. She is dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture, particularly the perspectives of women who are marginal or invisible. She received a BA in Economics and an MA in English Literature from [[w:Mumbai University|Mumbai University]], as well as an MA in Communications from [[w:Stanford University|Stanford University]].


Datta is the co-founder and Executive Director of [http://pointofview.org Point of View], a nonprofit organization in Mumbai, India, that promotes women’s points of view through media, art and culture. She is also on the boards of various non-profits from around the world, including [http://breakthrough.tv/ Breakthrough], [http://web.creaworld.org/ CREA], [http://dreamcatchersfoundation.org/ Dreamcatchers Foundation], and [http://majlisbombay.org/index.php Majlis]. Her first book, [[w:en:And Who Will Make the Chapatis?|''And Who Will Make the Chapatis?'']], focused on rural women’s participation in politics, while her first independent documentary film [[w:en:In the Flesh (2003 film)|''In The Flesh'']] explored the lives of three people in prostitution from their own perspectives. Her latest book [http://www.zubaanbooks.com/zubaan_books_details.asp?BookID=166 ''9 Degrees of Justice''] documents new perspectives on violence on women in India, while her latest film, [http://www.nirantar.net/khabar_taaza.htm ''Taaza Khabar''], explores a rural newspaper run by women, many of whom are Dalit or tribal.
Datta is the co-founder and Executive Director of [http://pointofview.org Point of View], a nonprofit organization in Mumbai, India, that promotes women’s points of view through media, art and culture. She is also on the boards of various non-profits from around the world, including [http://breakthrough.tv/ Breakthrough], [http://web.creaworld.org/ CREA], [http://dreamcatchersfoundation.org/ Dreamcatchers Foundation], and [http://majlisbombay.org/index.php Majlis]. Her first book, [[w:en:And Who Will Make the Chapatis?|''And Who Will Make the Chapatis?'']], focused on rural women’s participation in politics, while her first independent documentary film [[w:en:In the Flesh (2003 film)|''In The Flesh'']] explored the lives of three people in prostitution from their own perspectives. Her latest book [http://www.zubaanbooks.com/zubaan_books_details.asp?BookID=166 ''9 Degrees of Justice''] documents new perspectives on violence on women in India, while her latest film, [http://www.nirantar.net/khabar_taaza.htm ''Taaza Khabar''], explores a rural newspaper run by women, many of whom are Dalit or tribal.


Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. She was on the controversial content committee and was part of the [[m:Movement roles|Movement Roles]] project and working group, which developed the framework for [[m:Wikimedia affiliation models/Summary|new models of affiliation]] within the Wikimedia movement. Datta has been the Chapters Committee liaison for the Board since 2010. In July 2012 she was elected Secretary of the Board.
Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. She was on the controversial content committee and was part of the [[m:Movement roles|Movement Roles]] project and working group, which developed the framework for [[m:Wikimedia affiliation models/Summary|new models of affiliation]] within the Wikimedia movement. Datta has been the Chapters Committee liaison for the Board since 2010. She served as the Secretary of the Board from July to October 2012.


She has spent a great deal of time and energy working with the growing Wikimedia movement in India, facilitating connections between Wikipedia editors in the country and the Foundation. Datta considers herself a community-oriented trustee with extensive prior movement experience outside of Wikimedia, which she used to nurture the budding community there. She helped organize the first community meetup in Mumbai and was an advisor to [[m:WikiConference India 2011|WikiConference India 2011]], which had over 600 attendees. She is proud that her first community barnstar resulted from that conference.
She has spent a great deal of time and energy working with the growing Wikimedia movement in India, facilitating connections between Wikipedia editors in the country and the Foundation. Datta considers herself a community-oriented trustee with extensive prior movement experience outside of Wikimedia, which she used to nurture the budding community there. She helped organize the first community meetup in Mumbai and was an advisor to [[m:WikiConference India 2011|WikiConference India 2011]], which had over 600 attendees. She is proud that her first community barnstar resulted from that conference.
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Datta considers editor retention and editor growth to be the most significant challenges facing the Board and the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the greatest opportunity to sustain the Wikimedia movement. In addition to technical solutions like a visual editor, she will continue to encourage the Foundation to focus on the priority geographies of Brazil, India and Arabic language countries, as well as smaller wikis like those in Indic languages. She also plans to continue to focus support at the Board level on work to increase the number of female editors on Wikimedia projects, while linking that work to larger strategic objectives.
Datta considers editor retention and editor growth to be the most significant challenges facing the Board and the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the greatest opportunity to sustain the Wikimedia movement. In addition to technical solutions like a visual editor, she will continue to encourage the Foundation to focus on the priority geographies of Brazil, India and Arabic language countries, as well as smaller wikis like those in Indic languages. She also plans to continue to focus support at the Board level on work to increase the number of female editors on Wikimedia projects, while linking that work to larger strategic objectives.


Datta lives and works in Mumbai, India and edits on English Wikipedia and on Meta-wiki. Her current term on the Board continues until December 2012.
Datta lives and works in Mumbai, India and edits on English Wikipedia and on Meta-wiki. Her current term on the Board continues until December 2014.
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| name = Jimmy Wales
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| term = December 2015
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=== Ting Chen ===
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| name = Ting Chen
| image = Ting Chen Nov 2010.JPG
| term = July 2013
| position = Member
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[[w:en:User:Wing|Ting Chen]] was born in Shanghai, China in 1968. He grew up in Harbin, in the northeast corner of the country, where he attended elementary school and middle school. In 1989 he went to Braunschweig, Germany and began his study of Electrical engineering. He was especially interested in [[w:semiconductors|semiconductors]] and their physics. He graduated in 1993 with a diploma and now he works as an IT specialist in Mainz, Germany. He can speak Chinese, German, English, French (un peu), and he reads Japanese.

His first experience with a virtual community was during his university time in the German Fido-Net, where he moderated a forum about science and knowledge for many years. He learned of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a 2003 news article about a German Wikipedia milestone. From then on Wikipedia became a new hobby. He started on the [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] and changed soon to [[:zh:|Chinese Wikipedia]], which was at that time still a young project.

Chen attended the first [[Wikimania]] ([[wm2005:|Wikimania 2005]]) in Frankfurt, where he took part on a panel discussion and introduced the Chinese community. He also helped organize the third Wikimania ([[wm2007:|Wikimania 2007]]) in Taipei. After Wikimania 2007, he and his peers decided to put a Chinese community member up for election to one of the vacant community selected board seats.

Chen was elected as Trustee by the Wikimedia Community on [[m:Board elections/2008/Results/en|June 26, 2008]], with his term officially starting in July 2008. He was re-elected [[m:Board elections/2009/Results/en|in 2009]] and again [[m:Board elections/2011/Results/en|in 2011]], and he was named as Chair of the Wikimedia Board in July 2010. He has served on the Audit Committee since 2010, as well as Board Governance Committee, both as part of his ex oficio duties.

While on the Board, Chen has focused his time on the growth of the Wikimedia movement. He is proud that the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters have become so successful in fundraising and that the Foundation has succeeded in meeting its obligations under several financial audits. He also considers the 2012 [[Resolution:Recognizing Models of Affiliations|Recognizing Models of Affiliation]] resolution to be an important step in embracing the growth and diversity of the Wikimedia movement. Finally, he advocates for openness throughout the community and he is pleased the Board adopted its 2011 [[Resolution:Openness|Openness resolution]].

Chen believes his multicultural and multinational life experience give him a unique perspective within the Wikimedia community. He travels extensively to visit local and regional Wikimedia communities, where he hopes he makes them feel important to the movement and well-represented on the Board.

Chen has user accounts on numerous Wikipedias, including [[:zh:User:Wing|Chinese]] (95000 edits), [[:de:Benutzer:Wing|German]] (2600 edits), [[:en:User:Wing|English]] (330 edits), [[:fr:Utilisateur:Wing|French]] (130 edits) and [[:nl:Gebruiker:Wing|Dutch]] (110 edits). He is a bureaucrat on, and serves as an ambassador for, Chinese Wikipedia, and he also contributes to Wikimedia Commons and Meta-Wiki. His first edit was on German Wikipedia on January 21, 2003. Chen’s current term on the Board will continue until 2013.


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| name = Samuel Klein
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| image = Samuel Klein Nov 2010.JPG
| term = July 2013
| term = July 2015
| position = Member
| position = Member
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[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he works on the [[w:Digital Public Library of America|Digital Public Library of America]]. He is a global ambassador for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], and advises a number of education startups. He has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for many years, including work on multilingual [[WQ|newsletter]], translation networks, communication and special projects. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He also works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.
[[User:Sj|Samuel Klein]] was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he works on the [[w:Digital Public Library of America|Digital Public Library of America]]. He is an advisor for [[w:OLPC|One Laptop per Child]], as well as a number of education startups. He has been involved in Wikipedia and [[wikibooks:user:sj|other]] [[m:user:sj|Wikimedia]] [[wikinews:user:sj|projects]] for many years, including work on multilingual [[WQ|newsletter]], translation networks, communication and special projects. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the [[m:Wikimania 2006|Wikimania conference]] there in 2006. He also works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the [[olpc:WikiBrowse|WikiBrowse]] project.


Sam studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before focusing on universal education. He is an Affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society.
Sam studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and spent time [http://aduni.org teaching] and developing software for [http://idiominc.com facilitating translation] and [http://openacs.org/ community-building] before focusing on universal education. He is an Affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society.


More information is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]]. He can be reached [[m:user talk:Sj|there]] or [mailto:metasj@gmail.com by email].
More information is available on his [[w:en:User:Sj|Wikipedia user page]]. He can be reached [[m:user talk:Sj|there]] or [mailto:metasj@gmail.com by email].
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=== Matt Halprin ===
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| name = Matt Halprin
| image = Matt Halprin Nov 2010.JPG
| term = December 2012
| position = Member
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[[w:en:User:Mhalprin|Matt Halprin]] is a native of Menlo Park, California in the United States. He has lived in Evanston, Illinois, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Tokyo, Japan. He is married and the father of four children. Halprin graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

He has more than 25 years of business experience and has served on an array of boards of directors, both non-profit and for-profit. In addition to WMF, he currently serves on the board of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (which supports the next generation of minority leaders in the United States) and on the Advisory Board of Stanford's Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (iRiSS).

Professionally, Halprin was a Partner and Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with technology clients on issues of strategy and corporate development. Subsequently, he spent six years as Vice President, Global Trust and Safety at eBay, where he led a team of 90 statisticians, policy managers, and product managers. Halprin was also Partner at Omidyar Network, the founder of eBay's philanthropic investment firm. There he led the firm's investments in technology platform organizations in Social Media, Marketplaces, and Government Transparency. After, Omidyar Network, Halprin returned to an operating role leading Strategy, Corporate Development and Analytics at Ning, which was sold to Glam Media in late 2011. Currently, he leads Business Operations and Analytics at Yelp (NYSE).

Halprin was appointed to the WMF Board in August 2009 and has been re-appointed twice to additional terms.

Halprin has worked on the board to promote effective Board Governance and has served of Chair of the Board Governance Committee for more than two years. In this capacity, he helped introduce a Trustee peer evaluation process, effective Board Committee processes and transparency in board voting. In addition, he attempted to champion a more independent board and greater user choice via an opt in image filter to help parents and educators.

His current term continues until December 2012.
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She joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board as a Chapters' selected Trustee in 2012. Her current term will continue until July 2014.
She joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board as a Chapters' selected Trustee in 2012. Her current term will continue until July 2014.



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He joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board as a Chapters selected Trustee in 2012. His current term will continue until July 2014.
He joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board as a Chapters selected Trustee in 2012. His current term will continue until July 2014.
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=== Ana Toni ===
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| term = December 2014
| position = Member
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Ana Toni is currently the CEO for GIP (Public Interest Management), a consultancy firm based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which works for foundations, non-profit organizations and businesses on social and environmental issues. Since 2011, Ana has served as the Board Chair of Greenpeace International. On July 8, 2013, she was [[Press_releases/Ana_Toni_Announced_as_New_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Member|named]] to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.

From 2003 until 2011, Ana was the Ford Foundation’s representative in Brazil, during which time she oversaw the Foundation’s work in the areas of human rights, sustainable development, racial and ethical discrimination, sexuality and reproductive health, media democratization and land rights. She was also responsible for coordinating a regional Latin America Initiative on Economics and Globalization, an IBSA initiative (joint work between Brazil, South Africa and India) and the International Initiative on Intellectual Property Rights.
From 1998 to 2002, Ana was ActionAid’s Executive Director in Brazil, working to contribute in the eradication of poverty and inequality through community development projects, as well as public policy advocacy and campaigning at both the national and international levels. Ana also worked for ActionAid UK as Policy Advisor (1990 – 1993), representing the organization at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
Ana worked for Greenpeace from 1993 to 1997, first as the International Head of the Political Unit based at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam, and subsequently as Senior Advisor for Greenpeace Germany. She was responsible for, among other things, the work of Greenpeace on the World Trade Organization (in particular the Committee on Trade and Environment) and she also contributed in the development of Greenpeace’s work in the Amazon region in its early stage.
Ana graduated from Swansea University with a degree in Economic and Social Studies. She holds a masters degree in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and is a candidate for a PhD on Social Politics at the Rio de Janeiro State University. In addition, Ana is a member of the Editorial Board of Le Monde Diplomatique Brazil, and a Board member of the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity and the Forum of Women’s Leaders on Sustainability. Ana was the Board Chair of Greenpeace Brazil from 2000 to 2003 and a Board member of GIFE (the Brazilian Private Social Investment Association). Ana is Brazilian and lives in Rio de Janeiro.

=== María Sefidari ===
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María Sefidari Huici was born and lives in Madrid, Spain. She graduated with a Psychology degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and she afterwards got a Masters' degree in Management and Tourism at the Business faculty of the same university. She is currently a Computer Science Ph.D candidate at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

Sefidari started contributing to English Wikipedia in 2006, after her younger sister introduced her to the online encyclopedia. She started editing articles related to psychology, but soon expanded to other topics, including computer science, literature, science fiction and LGBT articles. She currently has the rollbacker user right there.

Almost a year later, she started contributing to Spanish Wikipedia, where she founded the LGBT WikiProject and became an administrator and bureaucrat within her first six months. Because of an unreliable internet connection, she was never able to suffer from [[:w:Wikipedia:Editcountitis|editcountitis]], but instead aspired to make quality contributions. She has +2000 edits on English Wikipedia, where she significantly contributed to a Featured Article (FA), and +18000 edits on Spanish Wikipedia, where she has significantly contributed to 14 FAs and 9 GA's. She also contributes sporadically to sister projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikinoticias, and is an accredited reporter for English Wikinews.

She is a founding member of Wikimedia España (WMES), the Spanish chapter of the Wikimedia movement, and she served on its Board as its first Vice President. In 2012, she was elected a member of the Chapters' Committee (ChapCom), the Wikimedia community committee entrusted with advising the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on the approval of new national or subnational chapters. In mid-2012, following a community discussion and a resulting Board of Trustees' resolution, the scope of the Committee was expanded and it transitioned into the Affiliations Committee (AffCom), and now includes thematic organisations and user groups.

As a member of AffCom, she has acted as liaison with many groups seeking recognition, and has helped guide them through the process of successfully becoming affiliates. To do this she has helped in community organising, cross-cultural communication, reviewing bylaws, and providing governance advice for emerging organisations. In September 2012 she was elected the first Treasurer of AffCom, tasked with overseeing and monitoring disbursement of the Committee's budget, and she was re-elected in March 2013.

Sefidari has also served on the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) committee for its first round. Through funding individuals or small teams that organize, build, create, research or facilitate something that enhances the work of Wikimedia's volunteers, the IEG supports Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, focusing on experimentation for online impact. As a member, she has reviewed proposals, read and researched submissions, scored proposals according to a rubric determined by selection criteria, and recommended proposals for funding.

Sefidari believes deeply in the importance of making knowledge available to everyone in the world. She also believes in the importance of diversity, and of encouraging women to contribute to the creation and availability of human knowledge. In her spare time she helps run Wiki-workshops and supports Real Madrid CF.

Sefidari was elected to the Board by the Wikimedia community in June 2013 and her current term continues until July 2015.


== Former members ==
== Former members ==

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the foundation and its work, as its ultimate corporate authority.

Structure

The Board was formed in 2003 with three Trustees, and now consists of up to ten Trustees. Its work is captured in part in resolutions and votes. It appoints four officers: a Chair and Vice Chair (who have to be Trustees), and a Treasurer and Secretary (who do not). Other work is delegated to its committees, including Board Governance, Audit, and Human Resources committees.

Since 2008, the Board has seats for ten Trustees:

Contacting the Board

A Board portal and noticeboard on Meta offer recent updates and a place to share requests and recommendations. To contact the Foundation, see our contact information. To contact the Board directly, post to the noticeboard, or write to WMFboard@wikimedia.org.

Current members

Jan-Bart de Vreede

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Jan-Bart de Vreede is from Gouda in the Netherlands. de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, but he also lived in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (3), Matthias (8) and Ruben (11).

For the past 10 years, he has worked at the Kennisnet Foundation in the Netherlands, a publicly-funded Dutch organization tasked with the promotion of IT use in education to help solve some of the major challenges in the field. At Kennisnet, de Vreede is responsible for the Kennisnet communities and Wikiwijs. Most of his time at Kennisnet is spent on the Wikiwijs project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources by offering them a platform to find, create and share OER materials.

He has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet, and he has long been involved with the community aspects of the various projects. He has attended every Wikimania (an experience he describes as both exhausting and invigorating). After attending his first Wikimania, he was quickly convinced that this was a special group of people who were doing something extraordinary. When the chance came to be a part of the movement, he jumped at it.

In December 2006, de Vreede joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He has served as Vice-chair since August 2011, and he also held the position from January 2007 until July 2010. He was instrumental in hiring the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director and he considers this process as an important element in transitioning from an operating board in the early days to one that could manage larger meta issues. He also notes that restructuring the Board gave them the opportunity to include chapter-selected board members, which has increased the diversity of the board as a whole.

de Vreede was re-elected Vice Chair of the Board in July 2012, and he was elected as Chair of the Board in August 2013. His current term will continue until December 2015.

Phoebe Ayers

Template:Board member infobox Phoebe Ayers is a reference, instruction and collections librarian at the University of California, Davis, specializing in computer science, physics and engineering information resources. Her interests include open access and access to scientific knowledge, the effective use of collaborative tools (such as wikis) within communities, and how trustworthy information and knowledge is created and used both on- and off-line. She had been at UCD since 2005, and has been served in UC-wide, regional and national library organizations. She has a BA in English literature and history and a MLIS from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Phoebe has been a Wikimedian since 2003, when she made her first edits on the English Wikipedia. Starting in 2006 she has been heavily involved in the planning of the annual international Wikimania conference, assisting with organization and facilitating the jury that chooses the conference location. She was also a member of the Special Projects Committee in 2006, has been a contributing writer for the English Wikipedia newsletter "The Signpost", has organized local meetups and events, and has given many talks about Wikipedia for library groups and others. She has also been involved in the wiki research community, chairing WikiSym 2010. Most recently she's been involved in efforts to help libraries work effectively with the Wikimedia projects, including founding a mailing list devoted to the topic, planning training workshops, and sitting on the North American Glam-Wiki advisory board. She continues to be an active editor, contributing to the English Wikipedia and other projects.

In 2008, she co-authored a book about the English-language Wikipedia titled "How Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It" (No Starch Press). The book covers using, understanding, and contributing to Wikipedia; it is freely licensed and is only the second book in English to be published about the site.

Phoebe was selected as a trustee by the Wikimedia chapters in 2010, and served a two-year term. She was selected to serve as Board Secretary in 2011. After her term ended in 2012, she ran for a community-elected seat in 2013 and was re-elected for a two-year term.


Stu West

Template:Board member infobox Stu West joined the Wikimedia Board in April 2008 and served as its Treasurer from April 2008 to October 2012; he also served as Vice-Chair from July 2010 to August 2011. He brings over 18 years of financial experience, including senior executive roles at publicly-traded companies including TiVo, Yahoo!, InfoSpace, and in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He also worked with the United States Mission to the United Nations. Stu's educational background includes a B.A. in History from Yale University, where he focused on 20th century diplomacy. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, and lives in the San Francisco bay area.

Bishakha Datta

Template:Board member infobox Bishakha Datta is a non-fiction writer and documentary filmmaker with diverse, international experience. She is dedicated to disseminating women's perspectives through media, art and culture, particularly the perspectives of women who are marginal or invisible. She received a BA in Economics and an MA in English Literature from Mumbai University, as well as an MA in Communications from Stanford University.

Datta is the co-founder and Executive Director of Point of View, a nonprofit organization in Mumbai, India, that promotes women’s points of view through media, art and culture. She is also on the boards of various non-profits from around the world, including Breakthrough, CREA, Dreamcatchers Foundation, and Majlis. Her first book, And Who Will Make the Chapatis?, focused on rural women’s participation in politics, while her first independent documentary film In The Flesh explored the lives of three people in prostitution from their own perspectives. Her latest book 9 Degrees of Justice documents new perspectives on violence on women in India, while her latest film, Taaza Khabar, explores a rural newspaper run by women, many of whom are Dalit or tribal.

Datta joined the Wikimedia Board in March 2010. She was on the controversial content committee and was part of the Movement Roles project and working group, which developed the framework for new models of affiliation within the Wikimedia movement. Datta has been the Chapters Committee liaison for the Board since 2010. She served as the Secretary of the Board from July to October 2012.

She has spent a great deal of time and energy working with the growing Wikimedia movement in India, facilitating connections between Wikipedia editors in the country and the Foundation. Datta considers herself a community-oriented trustee with extensive prior movement experience outside of Wikimedia, which she used to nurture the budding community there. She helped organize the first community meetup in Mumbai and was an advisor to WikiConference India 2011, which had over 600 attendees. She is proud that her first community barnstar resulted from that conference.

Datta considers editor retention and editor growth to be the most significant challenges facing the Board and the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the greatest opportunity to sustain the Wikimedia movement. In addition to technical solutions like a visual editor, she will continue to encourage the Foundation to focus on the priority geographies of Brazil, India and Arabic language countries, as well as smaller wikis like those in Indic languages. She also plans to continue to focus support at the Board level on work to increase the number of female editors on Wikimedia projects, while linking that work to larger strategic objectives.

Datta lives and works in Mumbai, India and edits on English Wikipedia and on Meta-wiki. Her current term on the Board continues until December 2014.

Jimmy Wales

Template:Board member infobox Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project.

Jimmy was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago. In the mid-1990s he started Bomis, a search portal focusing on aspects of pop culture, one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the Open Directory Project.

In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded Nupedia, by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.

In 2004, Jimmy founded Wikia. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.


Samuel Klein

Template:Board member infobox Samuel Klein was elected to the Wikimedia Board in August 2009. He currently lives in Cambridge, where he works on the Digital Public Library of America. He is an advisor for One Laptop per Child, as well as a number of education startups. He has been involved in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for many years, including work on multilingual newsletter, translation networks, communication and special projects. He founded the Boston-area Wikipedia group, and organized the bid and local team that hosted the Wikimania conference there in 2006. He also works on offline Wikipedia distribution, including the WikiBrowse project.

Sam studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and spent time teaching and developing software for facilitating translation and community-building before focusing on universal education. He is an Affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society.

More information is available on his Wikipedia user page. He can be reached there or by email.

Alice Wiegand

Template:Board member infobox Alice Wiegand lives in Duesseldorf, Germany, where she is a personal aide to the Mayor of Meerbusch. Previously she ran Meerbusch’s IT department as a specialist for system administration in the public sector.

Wiegand has made various detours before she reached her current occupation. Originally she studied economics, then she decided to become a tailor. After that she jumped at the chance to be trained in software development, followed by training and study for the German senior civil service. She has recently begun her Master’s studies in Public Policy and Governance.

Wiegand started editing German Wikipedia in 2004, following one of the first major series of media stories about the site in Germany. She was looking for something meaningful to do besides her job and started to edit on topics like contemporary art and comics. Soon her activities switched to administration, organization and contributor support. In recent years, she has organized several workshops and skills trainings for contributors, for the volunteer response team OTRS and for Wikipedia administrators.

She has extensive experience as a board member of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE, the German chapter of the Wikimedia movement), which she joined in 2008. At WMDE, she served as secretary and vice president, and she was involved in strategy development, organizational structuring and executive accounting and assessment.

Wiegand is convinced that offering free knowledge to people is an essential condition to facilitate free and independent decisions. She believes in the strength and advantages of decentralized structures and wants to improve the mutual understanding of all parties involved in the Wikimedia movement. She sees the need to provide reliability and stability at a time when the movement faces fundamental changes in resource allocation, new models of affiliation and the interaction of the chapters.

Wiegand served as administrator and bureaucrat on German Wikipedia. Her edit count is 22860, but the curve shape has rapidly decreased since 2008, when she joined the board of WMDE.

She joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board as a Chapters' selected Trustee in 2012. Her current term will continue until July 2014.

Patricio Lorente

Template:Board member infobox Patricio Lorente was born in 1969 in La Plata, Argentina. He studied at La Plata National University, where he currently works as General Prosecretary.

For several years he worked in the field of Development Cooperation, managing the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local development projects funded by the Italian government and the European Union. He worked to strengthen local capacity as a condition for development, transcending the traditional approach of North-South cooperation by promoting South-South. He also supported decentralized cooperation by building horizontal networks of exchange between different cities and regions of Argentina.

Since 2004, he has served in the National University of La Plata, first as Prosecretary of Administration and subsequently as General Prosecretary. In his current position, he manages the strategic planning and the everyday issues and conflicts of a large and restless community, including both academics and student organizations. The National University of La Plata is a public university in Argentina and the second largest in the country, measured both in size (with 100,000 students and 15,000 teachers) and by scientific production. As with all public universities in Argentina, there is no tuition and enrollment is free.

He joined the Spanish Wikipedia as an editor in 2005 and he has been an admin (sysop, bureaucrat) since 2006. He is also a founding member of Wikimedia Argentina and was its President from 2007 to 2012. He was responsible for the organization of Wikimanía 2009 in Buenos Aires and has participated as an organizer or speaker in numerous conferences, seminars and workshops on Wikipedia/Wikimedia in Argentina and other Latin American countries (Colombia, Ecuador, México, Perú). He was one of the primary organizers of the first Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit, held in Buenos Aires in 2011, which helped bring together representatives from both established Wikimedia chapters and informal working groups throughout Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Lorente has devoted his time to outreach activities in education, with particular interest in off-wiki activities. He is the author of a booklet published by Wikimedia Argentina called "Wikipedia in the classroom" and, representing Wikimedia Argentina, he was a member of the Advisory Board of Conectar Igualdad, a government program that is delivering more than three million netbooks to all public high school students in Argentina. As a result of this work, many wiki-related activities were launched and the National Ministry of Education opened a special site with tutorials, documents and guides about Wikipedia and education. There is also a special pilot program in more than 200 schools across the country -- “Escuelas de Innovación” (Innovative Schools) -- that is directly training teachers on possible uses of Wikimedia projects for their classes, not only in terms of creating content but also regarding notions of relevance, content verification and discussions on neutrality issues.

He joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board as a Chapters selected Trustee in 2012. His current term will continue until July 2014.

Ana Toni

Template:Board member infobox Ana Toni is currently the CEO for GIP (Public Interest Management), a consultancy firm based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which works for foundations, non-profit organizations and businesses on social and environmental issues. Since 2011, Ana has served as the Board Chair of Greenpeace International. On July 8, 2013, she was named to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.

From 2003 until 2011, Ana was the Ford Foundation’s representative in Brazil, during which time she oversaw the Foundation’s work in the areas of human rights, sustainable development, racial and ethical discrimination, sexuality and reproductive health, media democratization and land rights. She was also responsible for coordinating a regional Latin America Initiative on Economics and Globalization, an IBSA initiative (joint work between Brazil, South Africa and India) and the International Initiative on Intellectual Property Rights.

From 1998 to 2002, Ana was ActionAid’s Executive Director in Brazil, working to contribute in the eradication of poverty and inequality through community development projects, as well as public policy advocacy and campaigning at both the national and international levels. Ana also worked for ActionAid UK as Policy Advisor (1990 – 1993), representing the organization at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

Ana worked for Greenpeace from 1993 to 1997, first as the International Head of the Political Unit based at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam, and subsequently as Senior Advisor for Greenpeace Germany. She was responsible for, among other things, the work of Greenpeace on the World Trade Organization (in particular the Committee on Trade and Environment) and she also contributed in the development of Greenpeace’s work in the Amazon region in its early stage.

Ana graduated from Swansea University with a degree in Economic and Social Studies. She holds a masters degree in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and is a candidate for a PhD on Social Politics at the Rio de Janeiro State University. In addition, Ana is a member of the Editorial Board of Le Monde Diplomatique Brazil, and a Board member of the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity and the Forum of Women’s Leaders on Sustainability. Ana was the Board Chair of Greenpeace Brazil from 2000 to 2003 and a Board member of GIFE (the Brazilian Private Social Investment Association). Ana is Brazilian and lives in Rio de Janeiro.

María Sefidari

Template:Board member infobox María Sefidari Huici was born and lives in Madrid, Spain. She graduated with a Psychology degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and she afterwards got a Masters' degree in Management and Tourism at the Business faculty of the same university. She is currently a Computer Science Ph.D candidate at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

Sefidari started contributing to English Wikipedia in 2006, after her younger sister introduced her to the online encyclopedia. She started editing articles related to psychology, but soon expanded to other topics, including computer science, literature, science fiction and LGBT articles. She currently has the rollbacker user right there.

Almost a year later, she started contributing to Spanish Wikipedia, where she founded the LGBT WikiProject and became an administrator and bureaucrat within her first six months. Because of an unreliable internet connection, she was never able to suffer from editcountitis, but instead aspired to make quality contributions. She has +2000 edits on English Wikipedia, where she significantly contributed to a Featured Article (FA), and +18000 edits on Spanish Wikipedia, where she has significantly contributed to 14 FAs and 9 GA's. She also contributes sporadically to sister projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikinoticias, and is an accredited reporter for English Wikinews.

She is a founding member of Wikimedia España (WMES), the Spanish chapter of the Wikimedia movement, and she served on its Board as its first Vice President. In 2012, she was elected a member of the Chapters' Committee (ChapCom), the Wikimedia community committee entrusted with advising the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on the approval of new national or subnational chapters. In mid-2012, following a community discussion and a resulting Board of Trustees' resolution, the scope of the Committee was expanded and it transitioned into the Affiliations Committee (AffCom), and now includes thematic organisations and user groups.

As a member of AffCom, she has acted as liaison with many groups seeking recognition, and has helped guide them through the process of successfully becoming affiliates. To do this she has helped in community organising, cross-cultural communication, reviewing bylaws, and providing governance advice for emerging organisations. In September 2012 she was elected the first Treasurer of AffCom, tasked with overseeing and monitoring disbursement of the Committee's budget, and she was re-elected in March 2013.

Sefidari has also served on the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) committee for its first round. Through funding individuals or small teams that organize, build, create, research or facilitate something that enhances the work of Wikimedia's volunteers, the IEG supports Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, focusing on experimentation for online impact. As a member, she has reviewed proposals, read and researched submissions, scored proposals according to a rubric determined by selection criteria, and recommended proposals for funding.

Sefidari believes deeply in the importance of making knowledge available to everyone in the world. She also believes in the importance of diversity, and of encouraging women to contribute to the creation and availability of human knowledge. In her spare time she helps run Wiki-workshops and supports Real Madrid CF.

Sefidari was elected to the Board by the Wikimedia community in June 2013 and her current term continues until July 2015.

Former members

Main page: Former Board of Trustees members

Further reading