How the 35-Year-Old Executive Director of Wikimedia Travels

Katherine Maher was on the road 200 days last year, crisscrossing the globe from Buenos Aires to Cairo. Up next? Berlin, Lyon and Cape Town, for Wiki’s annual conference. This is how she does it

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Far & Away, from National Geographic and The Wall Street Journal.

IN A GIVEN MONTH, I might fly to New York to meet with the Metropolitan Museum of Art about making its collection more accessible online to Wikipedia, then head to Tunisia to meet members of the Wikipedia community. A big reason why I spend so much time on road is that we support nearly 300 languages. We’re committed to the idea that Wikipedia should be this essential knowledge infrastructure for the world.

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