Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based internet to one that’s consumption-based. Last year we at Wikimedia raised an alarm about SOPA/PIPA, and now CISPA is back. … Increasingly, I’m finding myself uncomfortable about how the internet’s developing, who’s influencing its development, and who is not. I feel that although we’re in good shape, with a promising future, the same is not true for the internet itself.
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Gardner also feels she needs to step down so she can help other organizations and causes related to promoting a free and open Internet. I know they will ably steer the Foundation through the years ahead, and I’m confident the Board will appoint a strong successor to me. If that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t feel okay to leave, and in that sense, my leaving is very much a vote of confidence in our Board and executive team and staff. Today we’re healthy, thriving, and a competent partner to the global network of Wikimedia volunteers. When I joined, the Foundation was tiny and not yet able to reliably support the projects. The movement and the Wikimedia Foundation are in a strong place now. She writes that she can leave now because the foundation is in a much stronger place than it is when she joined:
She used the past several years to make Wikipedia more sustainable and develop partnerships with librarians and scholars to improve the accuracy of data in the wide-ranging online encyclopedia.
Gardner took over the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation (which oversees Wikipedia) in 2007 and has helped the organization grow substantially.
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