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Michael Snow in 2008 |
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| Born | 1974 Pfullendorf, Germany |
Michael Snow (born in Pfullendorf, Germany)[1] is a Seattle-based lawyer and was chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010.[2] He now serves on the Advisory Board of the Foundation.
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Snow received his law degree from the University of Washington Law School.
Snow has volunteered for Wikipedia since December 2003.[3] He is also a Wikipedia administrator and the founder of the English Wikipedia community newsletter, The Wikipedia Signpost.[4]
In 2006 Snow served as a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation,[5] was appointed to the board in February 2008 and elected chairman on July 17, 2008.[6]
At the Wikimania 2010 conference in Gdansk, Poland in July, Ting Chen replaced Snow as chair.
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| Preceded by Florence Devouard |
Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation July 17, 2008 – July 9, 2010 |
Succeeded by Ting Chen |
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