Wikimedia Foundation/Chief Executive Officer/Updates/nan
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Chief Executive Officer
The Chief Executive Officer is the senior staff officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing the operations of the Foundation and its professional staff. The Chief Executive Officer reports to the Board of Trustees and is supported by the Office of the CEO.
The CEO is responsible for running the business side of the Wikimedia Foundation, engaging with communities to inform decision making, and representing the Wikimedia Foundation to the broader public.
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Welcoming the new incoming Chief Executive Officer, Bernadette Meehan
- Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan (2025 nî 12 goe̍h 9 ji̍t)
- Around the puzzle globe – meeting with Wikimedia communities (2025 nî 12 goe̍h 9 ji̍t)
- Diff Blog – Welcoming the Wikimedia Foundation’s new CEO, Bernadette Meehan (2025 nî 12 goe̍h 9 ji̍t)
- Press release – Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer (2025 nî 12 goe̍h 9 ji̍t)
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Talking to community members -
Bernadette at Wikimedia Futures Lab -
Wikipediapodden interview with Bernadette
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Talking to community members -
Bernadette at the WP:25 virtual celebration
Updates from past Chief Executive Officers and Executive Directors
Past updates, maintained for historical purposes.
Updates from CEO Maryana Iskander
- Solving puzzles together: Thank you message (2026 nî 1 goe̍h 19 ji̍t)
- August 2025 meeting outcomes (2025 nî 9 goe̍h 3 ji̍t)
- A personal update (2025 nî 5 goe̍h 6 ji̍t)
- Reflections on 2025 from the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Team (2025 nî 1 goe̍h 29 ji̍t)
- Late August 2024 update: Some next steps on a movement charter (2024 nî 8 goe̍h 22 ji̍t)
- August 2024 update: Where to from here? (2024 nî 8 goe̍h 1 ji̍t)
- April 2024 update: Wikimedia Foundation Draft Annual Plan & Request for Input (2024 nî 4 goe̍h 11 ji̍t)
- February 2024 Update: Highlights from Talking:2024 (2024 nî 2 goe̍h 29 ji̍t)
- October 2023 Update and Invitation to Talking: 2024 (2023 nî 10 goe̍h 13 ji̍t)
- Joint update from Maryana and Nat (2023 nî 7 goe̍h 13 ji̍t)
- Fiscal Year 2023–2024 Annual Plan Update (2023 nî 4 goe̍h 18 ji̍t)
- Year one update (2023 nî 1 goe̍h 31 ji̍t)
- Nine month update (2022 nî 9 goe̍h 6 ji̍t)
- June Meeting Outcomes from Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (2022 nî 7 goe̍h 26 ji̍t)
- Three Month Update and Wikimedia Foundation Draft Plan (2022 nî 4 goe̍h 14 ji̍t)
- Maryana’s Listening Tour (2022 nî 1 goe̍h 14 ji̍t)
Appointment as Chief Executive Officer
Katherine Maher
King-sin
- 2017 Wikimedia Movement Strategy updates - main page
- Response to recent developments of United States travel ban - July 2018
- Wikimedia Foundation update regarding block in Turkey - August 2017
Replies to Letters to Katherine (L2K)
- Response to WikiIndaba conference 2017 - August 2017 (PDF)
- Response to Carta de Buenos Aires - August 2017
Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meetings
- Thâu-ia̍h
- 2017 nî 5 goe̍h
- 2017 nî 2 goe̍h
- 2016 nî 12 goe̍h
- 2016 nî 11 goe̍h
- 2016 nî 10 goe̍h
- 2016 nî 6 goe̍h
- 2016 nî 4 goe̍h
- 2016 nî 3 goe̍h
Kong-kò
- Introducing Victoria Coleman - Chief Technology Officer (2 November 2016)
Pān-kong sî-kan
Uí-jīm Tsit-hìng Táng-sū
2016 6-gue̍h
Appointment as interim Executive Director
2016 3-gue̍h
Lila Tretikov
- Clarity on the future of Wikimedia search (16 February 2016)
- Some background on the Knowledge Engine grant (29 January 2016)
- Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Terry Gilbey as interim COO; bids farewell to Gayle Karen Young (20 March 2015)
- Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015 (15 January 2015)
- Damon Sicore joins Wikimedia Foundation as Vice President of Engineering (29 September 2014)
- Will you join in celebrating the 10th anniversary of Wikimedia Commons? (5 September 2014)
- European court decision punches holes in free knowledge (6 August 2014)
- Early Thoughts about Wikimedia Foundation (5 June 2014)
- Venture beyond (2 June 2014)
- Hacker osmosis: Ideas abound at the European Hackathon in Zurich (15 May 2014)
Sue Gardner
- Katherine Maher joins the Wikimedia Foundation as Chief Communications Officer (15 April 2014)
- Announcing the search for the Wikimedia Foundation’s Chief Communications Officer (31 October 2013)
- Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner’s response to paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry (21 October 2013)
- Changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Team (29 July 2013)
- What’s missing from the media discussions of Wikipedia categories and sexism (1 May 2013)
- Wikimedia projects reach more than 500 million people per month (19 April 2013)
- Please read: an announcement from Wikimedia Foundation ED Sue Gardner (27 March 2013)
- Wikipedia, the people’s encyclopedia (14 January 2013)
- The message from the Wikipedia Blackout: Please leave the Internet alone (20 January 2012)
- Wikipedia’s community calls for anti-SOPA blackout January 18 (16 January 2012)
- Happy 10th anniversary, Wikipedia! (14 January 2011)
- Danese Cooper, our new CTO (28 January 2010)
- Kicking off the 2009 Wikimedia Fundraiser (11 November 2009)
Brad Patrick
