Katherine MaherVerified account

@krmaher

Executive Director, Foundation (aka ). policy, tech, human rights. Opinions mine, likely [citation needed].

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Nov 2016

    We need information and education more than ever. That's my commitment.

    37 replies 118 retweets 533 likes
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  2. 6 minutes ago

    What would a black internet look like? A feminist internet? Excellent session on at with and .

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  3. 1 hour ago

    😍😍😍

    “Yalla Habibi, let’s catalyze systemic change” @ Day 0
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  4. Retweeted
    May 16

    How do we build awareness of in different countries, cultures, and language groups around the world? We trust local Wikimedians to offer their expertise.

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  5. Retweeted
    May 17

    Magid Magid, 28, left Somalia aged five and arrived in the UK unable to speak English. Now he is Sheffield’s youngest ever Lord Mayor and the first from the Green Party.

    Already a big fan of the new lord mayor of Sheffield based on his inaugural portrait alone.
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  6. May 16

    53% and that’s on us.

    White woman calls security on “suspicious man walking the bike path with a baby” in Washington DC:
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  7. Retweeted
    May 16

    Want to learn more on what we’re doing at with open, auditable AI to support free knowledge and our communities of volunteer contributors? Look out for our own Miriam Redi at in Geneva. (PS: we’re hiring!)

    At we use to help make the sum of all human knowledge more inclusive, multilingual, verifiable, and welcoming to newcomers.
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  8. May 11

    There I fixed it.

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  9. Retweeted
    May 9

    We could’ve spent this week geeking out about volcanoes if we weren’t beset by all these criminals.

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  10. Retweeted
    May 10

    "Pour la Wikimedia Foundation, la vie privée n'est pas juste un terme marketing. tout est géré de façon transparente. Les mécanismes sont transparents mais les données privées sont privées."

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  11. Retweeted
    May 9

    And the people no one ever thought to call natural leaders are out here doing the work and learning the actual honest to god skills that make leadership work. They’re putting in the effort, and it shows.

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  12. May 9

    LOL at disapproval of the Met Gala as though Catholicism’s history has not been rife with appropriation, excess, performative ostentation, and rigid social hierarchies. (Raised Catholic don’t @ me.)

    2 replies 5 retweets 44 likes
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  13. Retweeted
    May 9

    Did you miss this great post for and about the future of collaboration and open content for heritage institutions? and require us to think bigger than individual institutions:

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  14. May 8

    current state: conceptually deeply distressed by the JCPOA withdrawal and Cohen payments. But truth be told, so exhausted by daily misogyny and BS it’s hard to properly summon the fight. And I’m white and privileged AF. This is how the system wins.

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  15. May 8

    6:30am, checks Twitter. What did Bari Weiss do this time? This website will binge and purge in 5 hours, I’ll come back later. ⏱

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  16. May 4

    I was looking for a job in DC in civic tech in 2009/2010. The hunt involved a lot of happy hours and warnings to avoid Clay. I only started hearing specifics since this article started coming together. They’re even worse than I’d heard.

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  17. Retweeted
    May 4

    Wärmste Empfehlungen um allerbestens über unsere große Liebe - und alles drumherum - informiert zu sein. (Ja, talking 'bout this ) Lasst uns feieren: :

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  18. Retweeted
    May 2

    It's 2018. In order opt out of Facebook, you must first be on Facebook.

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  19. Retweeted
    May 3

    Now on stage: Katherine Maher from getting us ready for the fight for our right to free knowledge. – at Station Berlin

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  20. Retweeted
    May 3

    „The culture that we create and demand is something that requires us to be radical. So I'm asking of us, please, be radical" – at Station Berlin

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  21. Retweeted
    May 2

    THIS!

    For the love of everything good in this world, somebody put in charge of something. Google, Facebook, Twitter, something. She has a better grasp of how tech has impacted & continues to impact everyone in our world than anyone I’ve ever heard speak.
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