Dariusz Jemielniak the Wikipedia board of trustees
Fig. Fotolia
Prof. Dariusz Jemielniak of the Kozminski University is the only Pole and the first person from outside the US and Western Europe to become a member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. The foundation represents, among others, the social movement of the authors of Wikipedia - the world\'s largest encyclopedia.
Members of the Board of Trustees were selected by the international Wikipedia community in a popular vote with the participation of more than 5.5 thousand Wikipedians. The Kozminski University spokesperson Ewa Barlik reported on the election results announced in a release sent to PAP.
Prof. Jemielniak calls for improving the management of the inter-organisation movement, increasing the involvement of the academic community in the development of Wikipedia and related projects, cutting red tape and greater control over the movement’s strategy.
Dariusz Jemielniak (b. 1975) is a professor of economic sciences, specializing in management. He is actively involved in the creation of Wikipedia; in 2012 he became a member the seven-person Finance Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation and its first president. He is the author of ethnographic study of international community of authors of Wikipedia entries, which he described in the book "Common Knowledge. How Wikipedia Really Works" published in 2014 in the U.S. by Stanford University Press and in Poland (Polish title: "Życie wirtualnych dzikich: netnografia Wikipedii, największego projektu współtworzonego przez ludzi").
As an advocate for greater involvement of scientists and universities in the use of Wikipedia in college he encourages students to write articles and entries forms of testing knowledge and creating something socially useful. He is the author of a free online dictionary ling.pl and an English learning website: angielski.edu.pl.
He practices organization anthropology, the field on the border of management, sociology and anthropology. He is head of the Department of International Management and CROW (Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces) at Kozminski University. He was a fellow of the Foundation for Polish Science (2000), Fulbright Foundation (2004), Kosciuszko Foundation (2007). He received numerous scientific awards, among others from "Polityka" (2009) and the Minister of Science and Higher Education. His scientific and social activity is also appreciated outside academia: he is one of the finalists in the online poll polacyzwerwa.pl, where you can still vote for him.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, managing wiki web services. The best known is from Wikipedia, others include a dictionary called Wiktionary, a collection of quotations Wikiquote, open-content textbooks Wikibooks, service with source texts Wikisource, news service Wikinews, tourist service Wikivoyage, media repository Wikimedia Commons, data collecting service Wikidat) and a catalog of biological species - Wikispecies.
The organization was founded in 2003 to finance Wikipedia and its sister projects. It currently employs 250 employees and has a revenue of 50 million USD. The Foundation is financed with donations from individuals and legal entities, as well as licensing rights to use the names and logos of its projects in commercial services. It is executive director of Lila Tretikov, who in mid-June will come to Poland for the conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), held at Kozminski University.
The results of the voting in which, among others, members of the board of trustees were selected, are available on the Wikimedia Foundation website.
PAP - Science in Poland
lt/ agt/ mrt/
tr. RL
Przed dodaniem komentarza prosimy o zapoznanie z Regulaminem forum serwisu Nauka w Polsce.
