Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation advisory board was created in January 2007. The main job of advisory board members is to attend a once a year meeting at the annual Wikimania conference. They also contribute in their specific areas of expertise. I guess that means customer service for Newmark (his Craigslist title is Customer Service Rep), as well as patting Wikipedia on the back for also creating a massively massive website based at least party on sparsity of design (something he has direct experience doing himself).
Newmark has called Wikipedia “first draft of history.” Current advisory board members include:
Angela Beesley Starling (Chair, Wikimedia Advisory Board; co-founder, Wikia)
Ward Cunningham (Developer of the first wiki)
Melissa Hagemann (Open access and open education advocate, Open Society Institute/Soros foundations)
Mitch Kapor (Founder/Co-founder Lotus Development, EFF, Mozilla Foundation)
Neeru Khosla (Co-founder, CK-12)
Teemu Leinonen (Professor, Media Lab, Aalto University)
Rebecca MacKinnon (Journalist; founder, Global Voices Online)
Wayne Mackintosh (Education specialist, Commonwealth of Learning)
Benjamin Mako Hill (Author, free software advocate)
Roger McNamee (Venture capital, musician)
Trevor Neilson (Partner, Global Philanthropy Group)
Craig Newmark (Founder, Craigslist.org)
Florence Nibart-Devouard (Former Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees; Consultant in Collaborative Media)
Achal Prabhala (Researcher and writer)
Clay Shirky (Associate Teacher, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU)
Ethan Zuckerman (Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School)
Craig Newmark is a hippie
A very productive one…
Nice fit.
Simple user experience wins every time and craiglist while imperfect is simple to use as is wikipedia. Developers like AJAX, users like clean and simple and Google, Craigslist and Wikipedia have proven this
google never uses ajax
@john,
Next time, try to Google before commenting stuff….
http://www.deve...a–XML.htm
I wonder why Craigslist hasn’t really taken off in countries other than USA..With such a simple and free (In most cases) interface, it should have been a smash hit…
That’s b/c all other countries have a sense for aesthetics.
LOL not so..There’s a study that says such sites display a sense of selflessness which makes them all the more trusted and popular..
that’s because it’s full spammers, fakesters and sex predators…
From my observation, I’ve found that the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t really do much with the Advisory Board’s combined talents. So, this isn’t all that provocative a story.