Dear Erik,
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all --
As Lila noted, since January 2008 I've worn many hats at the Wikimedia Foundation, and in the six years before that I was a Wikipedian, MediaWiki developer, and member of the WMF board of trustees. I became involved in Wikipedia when I was 22 years old. :)
Every so often when we talk, you will surprise me by telling me about one more thing in the Wikimedia universe that you thought of or created or were involved in over the past many years that I didn't realize you had a role in. It seems the list is never-ending.
Thank you: for your innovation and creativity, your (superhuman) persistence, your boldness, your commitment to our shared values. Thank you for your role in creating so many parts of this thing that we now call a movement.
I’m very interested in the technical challenges of federated collaboration, and am looking forward to getting my hands dirty in that domain. I also want to explore how to make patterns of ethics, policy, and self-governance more accessible and re-usable for communities. In short, I’m itching to immerse myself in new problem spaces and new ideas.
I am excited to see what's next for you! And I have no doubt that all of us who work on collaboration will be the richer.
(First, though, I hope you have a lovely restful vacation, and then come to Wikimania to <s>heckle us</s> hang out!).
Here's to your next projects! Your likelihood of success seems alarmingly high.*
-- Phoebe
* http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Wikipedia_is_so_great