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Wikipedia pre- and post-Sue Gardner are two completely different organizations. When she arrived at Wikimedia, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, in 2007, the organization had under 10 employees and was raising less than $3 million dollars annually. In 2011, Wikimedia's number of donors had increased ten times over, raising $23 million. Gardner is focused on expanding Wikipedia's scope for readers and contributors, especially in the global South. In 2012, she partnered with Orange and Telenor, two European telecommunications companies, in a move that will provide Wikipedia free of data charges to millions of users across Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Also in 2012, Gardner led the full-day Wikipedia blackout in protest against SOPA, one of the only major websites to do so. Gardner's roots are in journalism, graduating from Ryerson University with a journalism degree and acting as head of Canada's national public broadcaster, CBC.CA, prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation. [...] more