Michael Snow (attorney)
Encyclopedia
Michael Snow is a Seattle-based lawyer
and was chair of the Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010. He now serves on the Advisory Board of the Foundation.
since December 2003. He is also a Wikipedia administrator and the founder of the English Wikipedia
community newsletter, The Wikipedia Signpost.
In 2006 Snow served as a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, was appointed to the board in February 2008 and elected chairman on July 17, 2008.
At the Wikimania 2010 conference in Gdansk
, Poland
in July, Ting Chen replaced Snow as chair.
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
and was chair of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...
Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010. He now serves on the Advisory Board of the Foundation.
Wikipedia
Snow has volunteered for WikipediaWikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
since December 2003. He is also a Wikipedia administrator and the founder of the English Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next...
community newsletter, The Wikipedia Signpost.
In 2006 Snow served as a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, was appointed to the board in February 2008 and elected chairman on July 17, 2008.
At the Wikimania 2010 conference in Gdansk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
in July, Ting Chen replaced Snow as chair.