First Pole in Wikmedia board of trustees

Professor Dariusz Jemielniak has garnered the highest number of the community vote in the election for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. More than 5,000 community members coming form over 180 home wikis participated, more than in any past board election. Jemielniak will join the Wikimedia Foundation as a trustee after he is officially appointed by the Board at Wikimania in July. He is the first Pole and the first person coming from outside the US or Western Europe to join the board. Jemielniak is a full professor of management, the head of the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (CROW), and a founder of New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) group at Kozminski University. Within Wikimedia movement, he is involved in the Polish Wikipedia, where he serves as an admin and a bureaucrat, as well as globally as one of the stewards. Previously he served one term on the m:Ombudsman commission. Although he has never held any roles or functions at the Polish chapter, he is its member.