- Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago .
- Larry Sanger
Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia, co-founder and chief organizer (2001-2002) of its successor, Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. In the interim, he was also an early strategist for the expert-authored and edited Encyclopedia of Earth. He proposed Citizendium on September 15, 2006, originally designed as a fork of Wikipedia. It was launched on March 25, 2007.
- Florence Devouard
Florence Nibart-Devouard (born September 10, 1968) is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation since October 2006, succeeding Jimmy Wales. Devouard was born in Versailles in France. She grew up in Grenoble and has lived in several other French cities, as well as Antwerp in Belgium and in Arizona in the United States. As of 2005, she resides in Clermont-Ferrand in France. She is married to Bertrand Devouard and has three children, William (born 1997), …
- Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles.
- Mike Godwin
Mike Godwin is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the creator of the Internet adage Godwin's Law. As of July 2007 he is general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. __TOC_
- Daniel Brandt
Daniel Leslie Brandt (born circa 1948 to missionary parents in China) is an American activist on the World Wide Web, particularly in relation to Google Inc. and the Wikipedia encyclopedia project. Brandt's current activism centers on demands for accountability from organizations he believes are operating irresponsibly, or in an unnecessarily secretive manner. In 1989, Brandt and Steve Badrich co-founded a non-profit organization called Public Information Research (PIR).
- Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm
- Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater (formerly known as Charlie Leadbeater) is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair. He first came to widespread notice in the 1980s as a regular contributor to the magazine "Marxism Today". Later he was Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief at the "Financial Times". While working at "The Independent" in the 1990s, he devised "Bridget Jones's Diary" (originally a column) with Helen Fielding.
- Eric Goldman
Eric Goldman is an Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also directs the school's High Tech Law Institute. Before joining the SCU faculty in 2006, he was an Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School, General Counsel of Epinions.com, and an Internet transactional attorney at Cooley Godward LLP.
- Murray Waas
Murray S. Waas (born circa 1968) is an American freelance investigative journalist noted most recently for his coverage of the White House planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensuing controversies such as the CIA leak investigation. His recent articles have appeared in "The New Yorker" The American Prospect", "The National Journal", and "Salon".
- Magnus Manske
Magnus Manske is a University of Cologne student who wrote the first version of MediaWiki, the software that runs the Wikipedia and several other Wiki projects. He is also a Wikipedia editor.
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Tron
Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron (June 8, 1972 - 17-22 October, 1998), was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his diploma thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Floricic's pseudonym was a reference to the central character in the 1982 Disney film "Tron".
- Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, …
- Alan Coren
Alan Coren (born 27 June 1938,, London) is a British writer and satirist. Coren attended Wadham College, Oxford, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley. He is a regular panellist on "The News Quiz" and "Call My Bluff" and writes both his own and the "Notebook" columns for "The Times". Coren was editor of "Punch" from 1978 to 1987, and of "The Listener" from 1987 to 1989, …
- Andy Kessler
Andy Kessler (born 1958) is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field and has also contributed to "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "Wired", "Forbes", "The Weekly Standard", the "Los Angeles Times", and "The American Spectator". He was Co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, where he famously turned US$100 million into US$1 billion between 1996 and 2001.
- Jim Giles
Jim Giles is reporter in the San Francisco bureau of "New Scientist". He writes about science, politics and the environment. Until April 2007, Giles wrote for the journal "Nature". In December 2005, he and colleagues published a story that compared the accuracy of science articles in "Wikipedia" to those in "Encyclopaedia Britannica".
- Tim Shell
Timothy Robert Shell (born May 5, 1968) is an American internet entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Bomis. Shell has been with the company since its inception in 1996, and was a founding partner
- Nicholas G. Carr
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American "business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology." Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. Carr wrote the 2004 book "Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press) and the 2003 "Harvard Business Review" article "IT Doesn't Matter." In these works, …
- Fred Norris
Eric Fred Norris (born Fred Leo Nukis on July 9, 1955) is an American radio personality on The Howard Stern Show. Norris is a comedic writer, musician and mimic, and has worked with Stern longer than any other staff member.
- Angela Beesley
If you want to know.
- Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of open-source search technology. He originated the Lucene and, with Mike Cafarella, the Nutch open-source search technology projects, which are now managed through the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to developing Lucene, Doug held search technology positions at Excite and Xerox PARC. Lucene, a search indexer, and Nutch, a spider or crawler, are the two key components of an open-source general search platform, …
- Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty (born July 10, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York), now living in Massachusetts. Liberty is a best-selling author on Microsoft .NET and has written over a dozen books on .NET, web development and object oriented programming. He has also written dozens of articles for both computer journals and newspapers on both technical and non-technical topics. Currently: Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Silverlight Development Team.
- Daniel Spoerri
Daniel Spoerri (born Daniel Isaac Feinstein 27 March, 1930) is a Romanian-born French dancer and performance artist, sometimes called the father of Wikipedia. Spoerri is credited with creating the first "wiki" by utility of his book "[[An Anecdoted Topography of Chance]". The Topo, as it is often called, was a book dedicated to preserving the history/archaeology and universe of a community of artists and friends in Europe.
- Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin (born 20 June 1933) is an English biographer and journalist. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was literary editor of the "New Statesman" and of the "Sunday Times", and has written several noted biographies. Her biography of Samuel Pepys won the Whitbread Book Award in 2002, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2003. Tomalin's first husband Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, …
- Petronella Wyatt
Petronella "Petsy" Wyatt (born 1969, London) is a British journalist and author. She is the daughter of the former journalist and Labour politician, the late Lord Wyatt, and of a Hungarian baroness. Wyatt attended St Paul's Girls' School in London before reading History at University College, London after, it is reported, her father phoned Lord Annan, the former provost of the College, to help her find a place.
- Marshall Poe
Marshall Tillbrook Poe (born December 29, 1961) is an American historian and the author of many works on early modern Russia (Muscovy). He is also the founder and editor of MemoryArchive, a universal wiki-type archive of contemporary memoirs. Poe graduated from Wichita (Kansas) Southeast High School in 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Grinnell College in 1984 and his Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
- Andy Müller-Maguhn
Andy Müller-Maguhn is a member of the German hacker association the Chaos Computer Club. He had been a member since 1986, and in 1990 was appointed as a spokesman for the club. In an election in autumn 2000, he was voted in as an at-large director of ICANN, which made him jointly responsible with 18 other directors for the worldwide development of guidelines and the decision of structural questions for the internet structure.
- Al Fasoldt
Al Fasoldt is a columnist for the "Syracuse Post-Standard" and for "MacDailyNews"; he is notable for criticising Wikipedia for not being an authoritative resource. In his August 25, 2004 column he quotes Susan Stagnitta, a librarian at Liverpool High School, based upon an e-mail she sent him in response to a column he wrote where he referred readers to Wikipedia for further information about computer history.
- Alison Wheeler
Alison Wheeler (born April 13, 1956) is a British political activist. An organiser of the London Lesbian and Gay Pride march and festival from 1983 to 1991, Wheeler was a founder member of the London chapter of the Lesbian Avengers and of the London Lesbian and Gay Centre in the 1980s. She was chief engineer of the RSL radio station "Brazen Radio" in 1994 which was the UK's first women-only broadcast radio station. Outside her work in gay and women's politics, …
- Jerry Saltz
Formerly the senior art critic for "The Village Voice", Jerry Saltz has been nominated for the "Pulitzer Prize in Criticism" three times. In 2000 he was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. In 2003 "Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1998 – 2003", a collection of Saltz's "Village Voice" columns, was published by The Figures Press. On a CAA panel in February of 2007, Saltz commented, "We live in a Wikipedia art world.
- Simon Pulsifer
Simon Edward Pulsifer (born September 11, 1981 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a contributor to the English-language Wikipedia whose prolific participation made him a subject of human interest stories in the media beginning in 2005.
- Roy Ashburn
Roy Ashburn (born March 21, 1954 in Long Beach, California) is the California State Senator representing the 18th District, which includes Kern, Tulare, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties. The Republican legislator, who was first elected to the Legislature's upper house in 2002, is currently serving his second four-year term. Sen. Ashburn previously worked as a California State Assemblyman for six years and a Kern County Supervisor for 12 years. Sen.
- Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.)
- Anita Ramasastry
Anita Ramasastry is the Associate Director of the Center for Law, Commerce & Technology and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. She joined the faculty in 1996. Her research and teaching interests include law and technology, international commercial law and banking and payment systems.
- Marcel Berlins
Marcel Berlins is a legal commentator who is best known for his weekly column in "The Guardian" newspaper. He is also a lecturer in media law at City University, London. He was the presenter of BBC Radio 4's legal programme "Law in Action" and retired after 15 years in 2004. He was born in France and voted in the 2007 French presidential election. In his "Guardian" column on February 15th 2006 Marcel said of Wikipedia that it had, "an open door policy, …
- Fernanda Viégas
Fernanda Viégas is a Brazilian researcher and visualization expert currently working at the IBM Watson Research Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is known for her studies of the growth and change of wiki content communities such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Fernanda and Martin Wattenberg created IBM History Flow tool that visualizes the editing history of Wikipedia pages
- Orny Adams
Orny Adams (born November 10, 1970) is an American comedy writer and stand-up comic working primarily in New York and Los Angeles. Orny Adams was born and raised outside of Boston, Massachusetts. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Last Call with Carson Daly and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, as well as other television programs. As a TV writer, Adams has written for The Tonight Show and The Primetime Emmy Awards.
- Andrew Maxwell
Andrew Maxwell (born 1974) is an Irish stand-up comedian raised in Dublin, Ireland. He was raised in Kilbarrack in the Northside of Dublin and is a member of the Church of Ireland. He is 34 years old and has a son.
- Jeffrey Herf
Dr. Jeffrey Herf is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. His specialty is in 20th century European intellectual history, especially in Germany. Herf received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1980. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has published essays in "The New Republic", "Die Zeit", "Partisan Review" and elsewhere.