Sue Gardner
Sue Gardner
Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 May 1967
CountryCanada
Sue Gardner quotes about
tables information benefits
Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.
journalist model people technology
People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.
choices shutting-down wikipedia
If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.
consumers critical skeptical
Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.
media wikipedia should
Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.
funny mass
It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.
censorship corporate groups industry mobile open seeing shift web wikipedia
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.
advocating change good interest interests numerous online ordinary people public
There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.