User:Hoder~metawiki

Hossein Derakhshan

User	hoder
Real name	Hossein Derakhshan
Location	Toronto, Canada (Originally Tehran, Iran)
Age	31
User page(s)	en, fa, weblog
Wikimedia participant since	February, 2004
Projects in which I participate	Wikipedia, Wikibooks
Languages in which I participate	English, Persian (Farsi)
Link to user contribution pages	en, fa
My candidate statement	I firmly believe in the political potentials of the Wikis and given my background, as a pioneer of blogging and podcasting in Iran, I can help Wikimedia Foundation adopt new strategies and develop projects to promote Wikis as a means for democratization of the knowledge, news, and organizations, especially in the Middle East, where I was born and rasied. Some of the ideas are discussed in this article I presented at Wikipdia conference in Germany: Wiki-ocracy. (Aug. 2005). OpenDemocracy About my work: Persian blogging round the globe. (Mar. 2005). BBC News Blog Spring. (Jun. 2005). Wired magazine Writing Lolita in Tehran (Jun. 2005). Newsweek A Dissident's Diary. (Oct. 2005). University of Toronto Magazine Web relations: Iranian blogs his way to Israel (Jan. 2006). Jerusalem Post I'll blog your house down (Jan. 2006). Haaretz Iranian Blogger Returns From Exile for Vote. (Jun. 2005). Los Angeles Times. Bloggers of Iran (May 2005) The Nation Aufstand per Mausklick(Jul. 2006) Der Spiegel In Weblogistan (Jun. 2006). Die Zeit Ein iranischer Blogger in Israel - "Mein Blog ist Rap-Musik" (Feb.2006). tagesschau.de Vater der Blogger (Dec. 2005). Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung Bloggen är hans fasta punkt (Feb. 2006) Dagens Nyheter Hoder visar ett annat Iran (Feb. 2006) Svenska Dagbladet Some of my writings: Wiki-ocracy. (Aug. 2005). OpenDemocracy Democracy's Double Standard (Jan. 2006). The New York Times Beware the bomber, not the bomb (Feb. 2006) The Guardian Linking Tehran and Tel Aviv (May. 2006). BBC News Ein TV-Sieg. (Jun. 2005). Die Zeit
For questions, please post here	my talk page on meta