What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based Wikimedia Foundation hired Danese Cooper as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Wikipedia is the world`s largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 35 million volunteer-authored articles in over 291 languages, and is visited by more than 374 million people every month, making it one of the most popular sites in the world. It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people during the past twelve years: anyone can edit it, at any time. It has become the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history. The people who support it are united by their love of learning, their intellectual curiosity, and their awareness that we know much more together than any of us does alone. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Together these sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. You can review our letter of tax-exemption and our financial reports and annual filings.
About the Person
Danese Cooper was previously the Sr. Director, Open Source Strategies (Open Source Diva) at Intel Semiconductor.
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