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My name is Erik Möller, and I've been elected to be on the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation in September 2006. You can find more information about me on my [[m:User:Eloquence|"Meta" user page.]]
| full name = Erik Möller
| image name = Erik Moeller May 2008.JPG
| job title = Deputy Director and VP of Engineering and Product Development
| organization = Wikimedia Foundation
| short quote = "The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. (...) It need not be concentrated in any one single place. It need not be vulnerable as a human head or a human heart is vulnerable. It can be reproduced exactly and fully, in Peru, China, Iceland, Central Africa, or wherever else seems to afford an insurance against danger and interruption. It can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba." &mdash; H. G. Wells, ''World Brain'', 1937 [https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html]
| about me =
Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (''Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern''), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science.


Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in Berlin.
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC.


(See [[m:User:Eloquence|user page on Meta]] for more info.)
'''PLEDGE OF PERSONAL COMMITMENT'''
| about my work =

Erik Möller, is the current Deputy Director and Vice President of Engineering and Product Development of the Wikimedia Foundation. Erik is also a former member of the [[Board of Trustees]].
As a member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, I, Erik Möller, am committed to Wikimedia Foundation’s goal to establish and maintain the highest level of public confidence in its accountability. I have personally committed to follow the standards set out below, which represent the Wikimedia Foundation’s [[Conflict of interest policy|conflict of interest policies]]:
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* [[m:User:Eloquence|Erik Möller's userpage at Meta]] (includes up-to-date contact information)
I will conduct my activities with the board of trustees of Wikimedia Foundation so that I do not advance or protect my own interests, or the private interests of others with whom I have a relationship, in a way that is detrimental to the interests of, or to the fundamental mission of, Wikimedia Foundation.
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In every instance in which I represent the Wikimedia Foundation, I will conduct my activities in a manner to best promote the interests of Wikimedia Foundation.

In all matters that come before the board of trustees for a vote that may favorably impact my own financial interests, or the private interests of others with whom I have a financial relationship, or any organization of which I am a part, I will reveal that relationship and abstain from a vote in the matter.

When a conflict of interest arises, or when a potential conflict of interest emerges, I will promptly disclose that conflict, or potential conflict, to the Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation and to the Chairman of its board of trustees and seek a resolution of that issue.


Entered into on this the 11th day of October, 2006.

Erik Möller<br>
Member, Board of Trustees<br>
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Revision as of 06:45, 20 September 2012

Erik Möller
Erik Möller, Deputy Director and VP of Engineering and Product Development
Erik Möller
Deputy Director and VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
"The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. (...) It need not be concentrated in any one single place. It need not be vulnerable as a human head or a human heart is vulnerable. It can be reproduced exactly and fully, in Peru, China, Iceland, Central Africa, or wherever else seems to afford an insurance against danger and interruption. It can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba." — H. G. Wells, World Brain, 1937 [1]

About me

Erik Möller has been an active editor of Wikipedia since 2001 and has also contributed to the underlying software, MediaWiki. Before joining Wikimedia as an employee, Erik was a freelance journalist and author (Die heimliche Medienrevolution: Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern), as well as a manager of wiki-related software development projects. He holds a degree in computer science.

Beyond Wikimedia, he seeks to promote Free Content, Free Software, and balanced intellectual monopoly rights legislation. Until taking the position at the Wikimedia Foundation, Möller lived in Berlin.

(See user page on Meta for more info.)

My work

Erik Möller, is the current Deputy Director and Vice President of Engineering and Product Development of the Wikimedia Foundation. Erik is also a former member of the Board of Trustees.

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

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