Three new Board members for Wikimedia

Posted by Angela Beesley on December 8, 2006 (Wiki, Wikia, Wikimedia)

Florence Devouard, Wikimedia’s new chair, announced today the appointment of three new members of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. Kat Walsh and Oscar van Dillen will join immediately and Jan-Bart de Vreede will replace Tim Shell later this month.

Kat was one of Wikia’s first community staff members. Jan-Bart works for the Kennisnet Foundation which both provides hosting for Wikimedia and pays for hosting from Wikia (Kennisnet is in fact Wikia’s only paying customer). Kat and Oscar were the runners up in the 2006 Board elections which were held to find a replacement for me after I resigned.

In the related Board resolution, the board reaffirmed its commitment to expand further in the coming years. The resolution also says that Tim Shell will resign on December 15, that the terms of Jimmy Wales and Michael Davis will expire in December 2007, and that Florence’s term will be extended by a year.