Sue Gardner is Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia - the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, which is free to use and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 11 million volunteer-authored articles in 250+ languages, and is visited by more than 300 million people every month, making it the number four most-popular website in the world. In her first year with Wikimedia, Gardner relocated the organization to San Francisco, more than doubled its revenues and instituted ambitious new programming goals to increase reach, quality and participation. |