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enthusiasm for our work only increased as I discovered the diversity of our projects. While I have put most of my volunteer time into
Knowledge, I have tried my hand at some of the other projects as well, contributing content to Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, and Wikidata.
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Community Engagement department and a year as its Vice President of Support & Services. Legal is a Wikimedia Foundation staff department of over 50 people focused on the goal of protecting the movement and its stakeholders
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I work for or provide services to the
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From the beginning, I loved
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in April 2007. Not entirely sure how to help out, I pressed "random article" in the toolbar until something came up that looked like it needed fixing.
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I am based on the east coast of the United States with my family. I have previously worked in education, publishing and law (as a paralegal).
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