Katherine Maher: Former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This episode’s remarkable guest is Katherine Maher. Until April 2021 she was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation—and she did a remarkable in this remarkable position. She has a bachelor’s degree from New York University as well as extensive education in the Middle East. She worked for UNICEF, National Democratic Institute, World Bank, and Access Now. She was chief communications officer of Wikimedia from 2014 until 2016 when she became the interim executive director. Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Katherine Maher for this week's Remarkable People podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:44.4	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people. From 2015 to 2016, I was on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
0:59.3	This organization oversees the 13 Wikimedia properties including Wikipedia,
1:04.1	wickshenary, wiki books, Wikimedia Commons, and so on. Its goal is to provide the infrastructure
1:10.4	that makes free knowledge available to everyone.
1:13.8	There are more than 200,000 Wikimedia editors and contributors.
1:18.0	More than a billion unique devices access Wikimedia projects every month.
1:22.8	Wikipedia alone averages approximately 18 billion page views per month.
1:31.3	The English version of Wikipedia contains approximately 6 million articles, and people add approximately 600 articles per day.
1:35.3	In 2020, supporters donated more than $120 million to the organization.
1:41.3	With first-hand certainty, I can tell you that leading Wikimedia is one of the hardest jobs in technology.
1:48.3	This is because you have to make so many people happy.
1:51.7	Wikipedia editors and contributors, end users and consumers, donors, partners, and employees.
1:59.3	And your tools do not include offering employees stock options,
2:03.4	selling advertising, or collecting affiliate fees. This episode's remarkable guest is Catherine
2:09.3	Marr. Until April 2021, she was a chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia
2:16.1	Foundation.
2:20.5	She did a remarkable job in this remarkable position.
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