Wikipedia Gets a New Boss: 'This Is Big in Every Way'

Wikimedia, the organization that runs Wikipedia, has named Lila Tretikov as its new executive director.

The former chief product officer for software company SugarCRM will take over for current director Sue Gardner on June 1, the organization announced in a press release.

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Wikipedia remains one of the most popular websites in the world. Wikimedia's family of sites routinely ranks in the top 10 of comScore's Media Matrix of U.S. web properties.

“When I got the news, I thought, 'This is big in every way: A big website — the fifth most popular in the world. A big community — 80,000 active Wikimedians from around the globe. And a big mission — nothing less than making the sum of all human knowledge freely available to all,’” Tretikov said in the release. “When I thought about why I wanted to take on a challenge this big, the answer was clear: Becoming a Wikimedian is an opportunity to be part of something bigger than ourselves.” Read more...

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