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E-mail: eloquence (at) gmail (dot) com
IRC: Eloquence
Skype: (as needed)
Personal blog
Mastodon

My name is Erik Möller. I was Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until April 2015. I joined Wikipedia in 2001 and have been involved in the project in pretty much all different areas. I'm poking around outside the Wikimedia universe these days, but you'll still find me around here from time to time.

What I believe

I am a socially liberal secular humanist and an optimist. I believe that effective collaboration is essential to the growth and survival of our species, and hope to learn and share ideas about collaboration through my work. I have concluded that certain memes (ideas) are destructive to society, including: the idea that strong intellectual monopoly rights are required to develop a rich and expressive culture, the idea that abortion is murder, the idea that physical pleasure and affection is an inherently dangerous or corrupting influence, and virtually any totalitarian/dogmatic belief system. I consider myself highly pragmatic about the present, and highly aspirational about the future.

Symbols I identify with include the "happy human" , an international symbol of secular humanism, and the "Eye of Sauron" , the logo of the Definition for Free Cultural Works.

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+* E-mail: eloquence (at) gmail (dot) com
-''User pages:'' '''Meta''' &mdash;  [[w:en:User:Eloquence|English Wikipedia]] &mdash; [[w:de:Benutzer:Eloquence|German Wikipedia]] &mdash; [[n:en:User:Eloquence|English Wikinews]] &mdash; [[commons:User:Eloquence|Wikimedia Commons]]</div>
+* IRC: Eloquence
+* Skype: (as needed)
+* [http://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/ Personal blog]
+* [https://social.coop/@eloquence Mastodon]
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+My name is '''Erik Möller'''. I was Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until April 2015.  I joined Wikipedia in 2001 and have been involved in the project in pretty much all different areas. I'm poking around outside the Wikimedia universe these days, but you'll still find me around here from time to time.
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-'''[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Eloquence&action=edit&section=new Leave me a message]'''
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-:''Poets, priests and politicians''
-:''Have words to thank for their positions''
-:''Words that scream for your submission''
-:''And no-one's jamming their transmission''
-:''And when their eloquence escapes you''
-:''Their logic ties you up and rapes you.''
-:&mdash; The Police
+== What I believe ==
-My name is '''Erik Möller'''. I'm a member of the [[Board of Trustees]] of the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information about my historical involvement with Wikimedia in my  "[[/CV|wiki CV]]". Beyond Wikimedia, I work as a software developer and project manager on wiki-related projects, most notably [http://wiktionaryz.org/ WiktionaryZ]. A long time ago, I started [http://www.infoanarchy.org/ infoAnarchy] (originally a weblog, now a wiki), co-founded [http://www.humanist.de/ Der Humanist] and helped to build a scientific archive on the [http://www.violence.de/ Origins of Peace and Violence].
+I am a socially liberal secular humanist and an optimist. I believe that effective collaboration is essential to the growth and survival of our species, and hope to learn and share ideas about collaboration through my work. I have concluded that certain memes (ideas) are destructive to society, including: the idea that strong intellectual monopoly rights are required to develop a rich and expressive culture, the idea that abortion is murder, the idea that physical pleasure and affection is an inherently dangerous or corrupting influence, and virtually any totalitarian/dogmatic belief system. I consider myself highly pragmatic about the present, and highly aspirational about the future.
-'''Current Board to-do:'''
-* Process information, responses to RfC
-* Make personal timetable
-* Discuss strategy with all Board members
-* Inventorize Wikimedia information and communication channels
-* Collect some agenda points for Board retreat in October
-* Prepare early Oct. meeting at Frankfurter Buchmesse
+Symbols I identify with include the "happy human" [[File:HumanismSymbol.svg|35px]], an international symbol of secular humanism, and the "Eye of Sauron" [[File:Definition of Free Cultural Works logo notext.svg|35px]], the logo of the [http://freedomdefined.org/ Definition for Free Cultural Works].
-A long time ago, I wrote the following declaration of bias for my work on Wikipedia. It may also be useful in other contexts.
+[[Category:Former Board of Trustees members]]
-'''Declaration of bias:'''
-* I am opposed to irrationalism, be it in the form of organized religion, miracle healers or postmodernism.
-* I am strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual property".
-* I am in favor of personal liberties (speech, abortion, sex, drugs etc.).
-* I am in favor of democracy and capitalism.
-* I am in favor of a working social system.
-* I am not a pacifist.
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