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Also known as Sue Garner

Canadian journalist and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation

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Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist who served as the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia. Her leadership of Wikipedia's parent organization made her a significant figure in shaping how one of the world's most widely used information resources is managed and developed.

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Person · Open Library

Works
29

Top works

  • Embroidered christening gowns
  • A-Z of Thread Painting
  • World's Most Beautiful Embroidered Blankets
  • A-Z of Knitting
  • Old Stories from Warwick's Past

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Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1967

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
13

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Quotes

  • The difference between Wikipedia and other editorially created products is that Wikipedians are not professionals, they are only asked to bring what they know. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb.
  • This basket exists for one reason: the free and open sharing of personal-grooming items. For many of us, most of us, this basket has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Help protect it now. Please make a donation
  • It [Wikipedia] was built 10 years ago and hasn’t changed that much, [but] we are looking for ways to increase serendipity. We are happily dependent on the inventiveness of the people who join us of their own volition.
  • The heart and soul of everything the Wikimedia project does is volunteer driven, it's volunteer energy, volunteer time, altruism, people's commitment to create this massive educational endeavour that's really available to everybody

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Wikimania 2014
Official website
www.suegardner.org
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date of birth
1967-05-11
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Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967) is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.

In 2012, Gardner was ranked as the 70th-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. In 2013, she joined the board of Global Voices. In May 2015, the Tor Project announced that Gardner would be assisting with the development of their long-term organizational strategy. In 2018, she was announced as executive director of The Markup. Gardner left this position in May 2019.

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