Katherine Maher
@krmaher
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Web Summit boss lady. Previously CEO @Wikimedia . Now 🤔 various places. Human curiosity, generosity, and dignity. She/her.
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Hi 👋. I’m the CEO of
@Wikimedia
Foundation. We operate
@Wikipedia
and work to keep it available for the world, especially in times of crisis. What happens in the world happens on Wikipedia. That means we've been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking steps to respond. (1/13)
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This is a thing that at least 40% of Americans do at least once in their life.
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We’ve been blocked in Turkey for nearly 3 years. Today, the Turkish Supreme Court ruled the ban on
@Wikipedia
is unconstitutional. A tremendous victory for people in Turkey and for the right to knowledge. 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
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For 10 months,
@Wikipedia
has been blocked in Turkey.
Turkey, we miss sharing knowledge with you and learning from you. We need your knowledge, your expertise, your voice.
#WeMissTurkey
Unblock Wikipedia.
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Big news: I’m delighted to announce that I will be taking up the position of CEO of NPR starting in late March. NPR has been a lifelong part of my soundscape, and I credit its reporting with sparking my curiosity that set me onto the path to become the person I am today.
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Appalling to hear a CNN election night anchor say “no one expected Trump to do this” when literally every election night disinfo prep call with media network leadership gamed this scenario out.
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7 years has been a wild ride. I'm stepping down as
@Wikimedia
CEO in April. We've done some great stuff.
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We need information and education more than ever. That's my commitment.
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Hey! Today has been exhausting. Does anyone need a gratuitous sleepy puppy?
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In my experience, it is perfectly possible to have opinions and also produce valuable, fact-based information for the world.
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- Waived sick days and PTO for illness and care-giving
- Moved to a 50% work expectation (20 hours per week)
- Deprioritized all non-essential projects/programs
All these steps, and my email to all staff, are included here ⬇️ (4/13)
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@Wikipedia
10 aydır Türkiye'de erişime kapalı.
Türkiye, sizinle bilgi paylaşmayı ve sizden öğrenmeyi özledik. Bilginize, uzmanlığınıza, sesinize ihtiyacımız var.
#T
ürkiyeyiÖzledik
Wikipedia’ya erişim engelini kaldırın.
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We’ve also instituted a 50% work requirement. We’re only asking for 20 hours a week. We know many people do more for our mission, but we want to be supportive of those who can’t, for reasons such as childcare, illness, or their own mental health. 🤲(7/13)
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In 8 hours I’ll put on a mask, leave my home, head to the airport, fly for 6 hours, quarantine for 14 days, and hopefully by mid-July I’ll be able to see my mom. I would not be going if there were not urgent family issues, but I won’t lie: I am afraid.
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My mom works at Sandy Hook Promise and this is 100% what they’ve been saying all year: we’ve been spared mass shooting casualties on top of pandemic mass casualty only because we’re mostly still all at home.
Sadly, what’s unfolding in Boulder may happen more frequently when public places/schools reopen; about 50M guns were sold in the past year (on top of nearly 400M already in circulation) - many to new gun owners in states that don’t require permits, background checks, or training.
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As a non-profit employer, I cannot see how we reconcile this with a future for our organization in San Francisco. Its nonsensical for our staff, our donors, our ability to recruit and retain.
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This is not how to work from home.
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While we are thrilled to see people recognize the value of
@Wikipedia
’s non-commercial, volunteer model, we know the community’s work is already monetized without the commensurate or in-kind support that is critical to our sustainability.
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We launched our first-ever
@Wikipedia
fundraiser in India this week. I'm so excited to be able to ask our Indian community of readers, dreamers, and discoverers for their support of free knowledge! 🇮🇳 🙏❤️
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Journalists — if you’re going to come after
@Wikipedia
for it’s coverage of women, check your own coverage first. We’re a mirror of the world’s biases, not the source of them.
We can’t write articles about what you don’t cover.
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We're not tracking our colleagues' time. People will work when they can, and when they can’t, we trust they’ll be right. 🙏 (8/13)
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Hot dang! Our preliminary data show that participants who identify as women in
@Wikipedia
increased by 30% this past year. Still far too low, but really promising!
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Next time someone tells me a woman isn’t notable enough to be on
@Wikipedia
perhaps I shall point them to this gent, whose spare and dubious achievements have languished unmolested in their thinly cited glory for 806 days and counting.
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- Closed our offices and moved to remote work
- Stopped all staff and community travel
- Cancelled all events until WHO declares the pandemic over
- Committed to paying hourly/contract workers in full.... (3/13)
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Ah yes, true.
New NPR CEO
@krmaher
says, among other things, that she cringes when she hears the word “content.”
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I can’t stop staring at this, it is mesmerizing.
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Hey hey! So proud to see
@Wikipedia
ranked as one of the technology projects having the most positive impact on society. After all, that’s exactly what it is here to do.
The report details how the ethical & societal implications of tech became a larger focus across Stanford
Our survey of 900+ randomly selected undergrads revealed students' sentiments about what orgs and technologies have a positive or negative impact on society, on average
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SoI did a fun thing today!
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I’m home on the East coast to pick my mom and the dogs up and take them back to California for the winter, to be close to me and my brother. We’re doing this because my dad died last month, and a dark cold winter alone in grief in a pandemic feels impossible to bear.
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The Open Street Maps mailing list discussion around a potential Code of Conduct is painfully familiar. Rule of thumb: if you have people arguing against a CoC, you probably need a CoC.
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This was the best! We were so annoyed that the US commentators didn’t even mention him until halfway through the race. He was phenomenal.
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Please see my full post below for more info about our changes and approach in this time of crisis. Our email to all staff is available under
@creativecommons
. Share freely, borrow liberally, go forth, and be good. And wash your dang hands! 🙌(13/13)
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Can’t endorse etc etc 🤣
Someone edited John Delaney's wiki lmao
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Hey
@thenorthface
, your brand was built on the passion of exploring places in the public trust.
Maybe don’t litter in
@Wikipedia
’s digital public park?
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I cannot see a single tactical reason for Ferguson police to wear camo beyond intimidation and projection.
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Most of the time when you go work at a company that is bad with the goal of reforming it, you're not actually fixing it, you're at best mitigating its worst impulses and at worst propping up its market power against corrective externalities.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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We took COVID-19 seriously early on. Seventy percent of our staff already work remotely. But, when we learned of community transmission in the Bay Area two weeks ago, we mobilized all staff to work from home. Within 24 hours, our San Francisco and DC offices were closed.⏱️(5/13)
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The problem is not that it’s unknown tonight. The problem is that it’s even close to begin with.
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The best thing that happened this week in non-pandemic news? ICANN rejected the sale of all .ORG domains to a commercial interest. Public infrastructure remains, for now, a public good.
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Now, all staff are fully remote. And we're instituting measures to reduce their cognitive strain so people can stay healthy and care for loved ones. We’ve waived the use of sick days or PTO for COVID-19 related care. ❤️ (6/13)
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I cannot believe this article ends and begins with pointing to
@Wikipedia
as *still* the best intervention
@YouTube
has come up with. Speechless at leadership paralysis on public responsibility.
Unbelievably damning indictment of YouTube leadership. People have *died* over this stuff and they still mince words about it.
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Washington Crossing the Delaware at the
@metmuseum
, painted by the son of an immigrant, now open to remix!
#MetOpenAccess
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I’m tired of being told “next time.”
I’m angry that we keep telling young women about their limitless potential and sending them crashing headfirst into those limits.
I’m heartbroken by our mothers’ generation wondering if they may never see it.
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I’ll say it again because I’ll never tire of saying it: the business model is the problem. Scale at all costs is the problem. Unlimited profit extraction is the problem.
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@Wikipedia
'ya erişim engelinin kaldırılmasını talep ediyoruz.
Dünya'nın Türkiye'den öğrenmeye devam etmesine izin verin.
Bilginize, uzmanlığınıza, sesinize ihtiyacımız var.
#T
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Through it all, we're focused on keeping
@Wikipedia
up and the world informed. We're supporting our volunteers around the world who are working diligently to curb misinformation and provide quality, comprehensive articles about the pandemic. 🦠 ↓ (11/13)
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Congratulations to Arabic
@Wikipedia
, which just added its 1,000,000 article! Alf mabrouk! !ألف مبروك
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Just learned about the term incel. Holy toxic masculinity.
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Not everything on the internet should be for sale to the highest bidder. I'm proud to be part of this effort to defend the non-profit internet.
#savedotorg
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Wikipedia is viewed by more than 1.5 billion devices every month, reading 15 billion pages+. We also have a global staff of 400+ people and thousands of volunteers. Here's what we're doing to keep going and keep safe during COVID-19. 😷(2/13)
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Lots of jokes about leaving the US, and I get it. But as someone with cis white mobility privilege, I’m thinking I’m staying and investing in ridding ourselves of this spectre of tyranny.
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I love you,
@Wikipedia
. Never stop being weird, wonderful, hilarious, full of integrity, and true to your values. My world is immensely richer for all I learned from this community of people. Thanks for all the fish! 🐟
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We’re working to lighten the load and focus on only essential work. Our SRE teams have to keep Wikipedia up, our HR and finance folks have to keep payroll flowing. 50% time only works if we deprioritize non-essential work. So we’re doing that. 💻(9/13)
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A milestone moment. Today at
#Wikimania2019
,
@Wikimedia
signed a partnership with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which all started with the amazing work of
@wikimedia_ar
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Today
@Wikimedia
filed petition against Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights.
@Wikipedia
has been blocked for two years. Enough. It's time to restore free knowledge to Turkey.
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Just realized today is my 4 year anniversary with
@Wikimedia
. What a ride. This messy, delightful, problematic, good faith, ever-onward culture, always rebuilding itself, always improving. It's a wonderful place to call home.
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I went out and knocked doors yesterday in San Francisco, and I can’t tell you how many people I had this conversation with. A primary is where our voices and choices are meant to be heard! That’s *your* vote, use it! 🗳
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So thrilled to finally be able to share: my incredible mom is the new Executive Director of
@SandyHook
Promise, keeping children safe from gun violence in their schools and communities.
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Apparently the internet is so much better now that we’re all doing memes of mittens.
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“AI that benefits all humanity” without a single woman or person of color on the OpenAI board. Where have I heard this story before?
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I know that hysteric white woman voice. I was taught to do it. I’ve done it. It’s a disturbing recognition. While I don’t recall ever using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it’s not impossible. That is whiteness.
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I continue to be fascinated by all these tech CEOs who have time to step away from running their companies to engage in lengthy, earnest, and hilariously shallow pseudo-philosophic dissertations about politics and society.
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I’d like to see a tweet apologizing on your main channel, rather than hidden in your replies.
@Wikipedia
@LeoBurnett
We believe deeply in
@Wikipedia
’s mission and apologize for engaging in activity inconsistent with those principles. Effective immediately, we have ended the campaign and moving forward, we’ll commit to ensuring that our teams and vendors are better trained on the site policies.
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Must be satisfying to deplatform fascists. Even more satisfying? Not platforming them in the first place.
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Thrilled that it's finally public! Congratulations to
@MaryanaIskander
, the new CEO of
@Wikimedia
! She brings global perspective, experienced leadership, and genuine warmth to the role. I'm so excited for where she'll take our free knowledge movement next.
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Yes, political speech is free. But incitement is a threshold around which we have prior jurisprudence, and accountability matters. Via
@KatieReisner
and
@NormEisen
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I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught.
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I’d tell our engineers to lock down our API for third party data export, but we don’t have one. Heck, we don’t even track uniques. Who are you again?
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My brothers and I had some deep talks about this recently. We're each over thirty with real jobs, and deep discomfort about what it would mean to bring a child into a warming world.
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Major networks broadcasting the president live from the White House proclaiming falsehoods and/or injecting doubt into the electoral process. GTFO with what you’ve learned.
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This ‘policy’ is dumb, it’s a sterling exemplar of not understanding your own product, it isn’t exclusively gendered though it’s now a textbook example of implicit bias, the emperor has no clothes.
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And frankly, we don’t want you to blindly trust us. Sure, we’re mostly accurate - but not always! We want you to read
@Wikipedia
with a critical eye. Check citations! Edit and correct inaccurate information! You can’t do that in a simple search result.
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“I’m once again asking Churchill to wear a mask.” - Bernie Sanders, Yalta
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I spoke with
@luis_in_brief
at
#LibrePlanet
on how mission-driven non-profits can recover from abusive culture; and how to reimagine your mission when the world changes. I see that
@fsf
clearly wasn’t listening.
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Let me be more blunt. Our elected leaders are not worthy of the offices and the people they serve.
Flying back to the US today filled with disquietude. Our leaders do not protect our vulnerable. They do not keep faith with the world.
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An otherwise utterly uneventful day of academic nerdery and international travel, except for the metric fuckton of misogyny.
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I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.
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Alright, I know
@Wikipedia
likes to be on top of things, but even for Wikipedians this is a bit much:
@TheAmandaGorman
's article was edited from future to present to past tense as she performed her poem at the Biden/Harris inauguration.
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Save the date: It's
@Wikipedia
's 20th birthday on Friday, 15 January! Everyone is invited to the virtual birthday party (just bring your own cake🎂).
#Wikipedia20
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Türkçe konuşmuyorum (ama keşke konuşabilseydim). Dolayısıyla bu mesajın Türkçe'ye de çevrilmesine yardım edenlere çok teşekkür ederim.
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It’s everyone's responsibility to do everything in their power to prevent further harm. At
@Wikimedia
we're taking these steps to protect our communities, colleagues, and families, while keeping
@Wikipedia
thriving. We’re asking you to join us in keeping people safe. 🌍 (12/13)
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We've been doing it for ~15 years while running a massive consumer site at scale, let us know if you need any pointers.
Silicon Valley is rethinking the whole idea of the office. “People don’t have to commute, and commuting is one of the worst experiences of humanity." (A bit hyperbolic in these times, but regardless, more CEOs are coming around to WFH) via
@pardesoteric
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I am shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden passing of my former colleague, Sherwin Siy. He was just brilliant, and one of the kindest and most thoughtful people you’d ever met. He had this chuckle that could cut the thickest tension, and a way of making everyone feel heard.
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Strong
@Wikipedia
reenactment,
@davejorgenson
!
13/10 points for correct dramatic feels
10/10 points for OG wikitext editing
0/10 points for speed, the article would have been fixed already.
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In a taxi. My driver tells me the economy is good, Obama is good, and that Bush was a bad man.
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