Fabrice Florin

Fabrice Florin

I first joined Wikipedia in 2006 -- and now work as product manager for the Wikimedia Foundation, where I create new tools to help readers and editors contribute more effectively on Wikipedia. See my Wikimedia staff profile for more info on my work for the foundation.

I am the founder of NewsTrust.net, a nonprofit social news network promoting quality journalism, which was recently acquired by the Poynter Institute. I was elected an Ashoka Fellow for that work as social entrepreneur. My previous ventures include: Handtap, a wireless content service for mobile phones; shockwave.com, a web entertainment site at Macromedia; Apple Computer's Multimedia Lab, a new media R&D group; and Videowest, a producer of rock journalism for ABC, MTV and public TV. I also produced "Hackers", a documentary about the heroes of the computer revolution -- and earned four patents for my interactive TV work at Apple.

I look forward to collaborating with you and other Wikipedians to help engage readers to participate thoughtfully on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly at fflorin-at-wikimedia-dot-org . You are also welcome to follow me on Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn.

Note: Although I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account are exclusively in my individual, personal capacity.

Work

How can we make Wikipedia better?
Click 'Play' to watch this short video slide show.

Here are some of the first projects I am working on -- I will expand this list as I take on more assignments:

Multimedia - a new set of media tools for Wikipedia
Media Viewer - a tool that shows larger images on articles
Beta Features - a new way to test software before it's released
Roundtables - community discussions with WMF product teams
Notifications (Echo) - a modern notification system for Wikipedia
Thanks - a quick way to give positive feedback for helpful edits
Page Curation - a tool to enhance the new page patrol process
Article Feedback Tool - a new way to contribute to Wikipedia
Editor Engagement - our overall work on engaging users

Videos

At Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, I asked some of the participants for ideas on how to make Wikipedia better.

Here are their suggestions, which can be viewed either as a short video slide-show (see thumbnail to the right) -- or in this photo gallery.

Photos

Wiki Loves Monuments
Here are some of the photos I took for Wiki Loves Monuments, a photo contest organized to add pictures of historic landmarks on Wikipedia. Most of my pictures so far are from Marin County, California, where I live.

Check out this special page with all my photos for Wiki Loves Monuments.

Fort Baker, Sausalito