User:Tianyuf/Ting Chen (Wikimedia)
[[ Mainz, Germany]]
| Ting Chen | |
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| 4th Chairman of Wikimedia Foundation | |
| Assumed office July 7, 2010 - July 12, 2012 | |
| Predecessor | Michael Snow |
| Successor | Kat Walsh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
(1968-01-29) January 29, 1968 |
| Residence | |
Ting Chen (born January 29, 1968) is the 4th Chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation. Category:Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text
Life
[edit]Chen was born in Shanghai and grew up in Harbin, China, where he went to elementary school and middle school. He identifies himself as a homosexual. Chen moved to Braunschweig, Germany where he studied electrical engineering in 1989. Exposed to online communities in college, Chen was the moderator of a science-related forum on the German FidoNet.
In 2003, Chen learned about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. He began to edit the German Wikipedia, and later became active on its Chinese-language counterpart. He attended Wikimania 2005 in Frankfurt, and participated in the organization of Wikimania 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Chen was elected as the trustee of Wikimedia in 2008, and became the 4th Chairman of Wikimedia Foundation in July 2010.[1][2][3] He was succeeded by Kat Walsh in July 2012.[4][5] Chen now works at an IT company in Mainz, Germany.
References
[edit]- ^ "华裔出任维基媒体基金会理事主席" (in Chinese). 维基媒体香港. 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ^ The Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Links with Confucius Institute at KU
- ^ Wikipedia celebrated 10th anniversary at SU
- ^ Jay Walsh (2012-07-12). "Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2012-13 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers at Wikimania in Washington DC".
- ^ 香港維基媒體協會傳訊署 (2012-07-13). "基金會宣佈陳霆離任理事會主席". 香港維基媒體協會通訊. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
External links
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[[:Category:1968 births]] [[:Category:People from Shanghai]] [[:Category:Living people]] [[:Category:Wikipedia people]]