The keynote presentation at the 2014 Cyber Summit by Sue Gardner, former Executive Director of Wikimedia.

1. CYBERA DECK
Sue Gardner | Banff | 25 September 2014

2. Hi, I'm Sue.
illustration by Sarah Weishaupt

3. Herder of cats.
illustration by Sarah Weishaupt

5. "I love being Canadian.
I think growing up in
Canada gives you a
world perspective that I
certainly enjoy."

7. Wikimedia Audience Compared With Other Information Sites
Measured using global unique visitors, in millions. Data from comScore.

9. 287
WIKIPEDIA LANGUAGE VERSIONS

10. 30 million
WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES

11. 5
RANK OF WIKIPEDIA IN TOP SITES, GLOBALLY (comScore Mediametrix)

12. 505 million
PEOPLE READ WIKIPEDIA EVERY MONTH (comScore, September 2013)

13. 0
COST TO USE WIKIPEDIA

14. 180
PAID EMPLOYEES

15. 80,000
WIKIPEDIA ACTIVE EDITORS (5+ edits per month)

17. idiosyncratic,
careful, messy,
funny, shocking

18. full of simmering
controversies

19. the supremacy of
reason and goodness

21. Things I've learned at
Wikipedia...

22. Most people want to help.
1Make it easy for them.

23. Open systems are messy
and embarrassing.
Don't fight it :) 2

24. You can't predict or
control what people will
do with your stuff, and
you shouldn't try. 3

26. bit.ly/1sRoUkz

37. Upshot.

38. Thank you.

42. After this slide is just residual -- stuff I
thought I might use, but didn't.

43. "The promise of the Internet has always been
that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly
potent instrument of liberation and
democratization. It would let you explore
things and meet people who you wouldn't
otherwise get to know, in completely free
and unconstrained ways."

44. Wikipedia flourished because it's a
shrine to altruism ---
a place for shy, learned people to
deposit their trawls.
Nicholson Baker, “The Charms of Wikipedia,” March 2008, The New York Review of Books

45. Wikipedia works because those who
know the truth are usually more
numerous and
committed than those who
believe in a falsehood.
Cass Sunstein, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, Oxford University Press 2006

46. Wikipedia represents a
belief in the supremacy of
reason and
goodness.
Daniel Pink, “The Book Stops Here,” Wired magazine, March 2005