Erik Möller

Möller is the author of the book {{lang|de|Die heimliche Medienrevolution – Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern}} ("The secret media revolution: How weblogs, wikis and free software change the world").{{DNB portal|129644935|TYP=}} In the book, Möller discusses the development of a journalistic equivalent to the open-source movement in citizen media and blogging, though pointing out that most blogs do not compete with mainstream media.{{Cite web |date=29 July 2005 |title=Schöne neue Onlinewelt? – Erik Möller beschwört eine "heimliche Medienrevolution" durch das Internet |url=http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/index.cfm?id=9825 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Berliner Literaturkritik |publisher=berlinerliteraturkritik.de |language=de}} The book was first published in 2005 by Heinz Heise and a second edition was published in 2006, with updated and revised chapters.{{Cite web |date=3 February 2006 |title=Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern / Telepolis-Buch: "Die heimliche Medienrevolution" |url=http://www.presseportal.de/pm/9616/792771/telepolis?pre=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009120833/http://www.presseportal.de/pm/9616/792771/telepolis?pre=1 |archive-date=9 October 2012 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Presseportal: Telepolis |publisher=presseportal.de |language=de}} A review in Berliner Literaturkritik's saw practical tips but claimed the book focused too much on technical details.{{Cite web |date=29 July 2005 |title=Der blinde Fleck |url=http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/index.cfm?id=9827 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Berliner Literaturkritik |publisher=berlinerliteraturkritik.de |language=de}} Möller's book is cited in the 2006 book Wiki: Web collaboration, in a section discussing "Wikis as an Engine for Social Change", and his term {{qi|secret media revolution}} is used.{{Cite book |last=Ebersbach |first=Anja |title=Wiki: Web collaboration |last2=Markus Glaser |last3=Richard Heigl |last4=Gunter Dueck |publisher=Springer Verlag |year=2006 |isbn=3-540-25995-3 |pages=28, 348, 378}} The authors comment: {{qi|Möller provides a comprehensive look at the problems and possible solutions in dealing with difficult controversies and vandalism in blog and wiki environments.}}

In his earlier research on Wikipedia, Möller found in 2003 that Wikipedia's open-source nature garners interest from many individuals, but also leads to gaps in topics of interest to experts.{{Cite news |last=Schwall |first=Johannes |year=2003 |title=The wiki phenomenon |url=http://www.schwall.de/dl/20030828_the_wiki_way.pdf |access-date=13 May 2008 |publisher=University of Münster |pages=10–11}} Some of his research was published in Telepolis, where he compared Wikipedia to the digital multimedia encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta.{{Cite web |date=30 May 2003 |title=Wenn die Gehirne tanzen |url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wenn-die-Gehirne-tanzen--/meldung/37236 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=heise online |publisher=Heise Zeitschriften Verlag |language=de}} In his 2003 article Das Wiki-Prinzip: Tanz der Gehirne ("The Wiki principle: Dance of the brain"), he gives some background of Wikipedia and wikis, as well as on what he sees as the benefits of the project, ways to prevent vandalism to articles, and the etiquette of Wikipedia users.{{Cite web |last=Möller |first=Erik |date=9 May 2003 |title=TP: Das Wiki-Prinzip – Tanz der Gehirne |url=http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/14/14736/1.html |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=Telepolis |publisher=heise.de}}

Möller, who holds a diploma degree in computer science (Dipl.-Inform. FH), is the owner and creator of the Infoanarchy website which has information on P2P and file-sharing technologies.{{Cite web |last=Mennecke |first=Thomas |date=16 November 2004 |title=Top 10 File-Sharing News Alternatives |url=http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=609 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410014044/http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=609 |archive-date=10 April 2008 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Slyck News |publisher=slyck.com}} He has also been involved in the development of the FreedomDefined website.{{Cite web |date=18 May 2006 |title=FreedomDefined.org: Was ist eine "freie Lizenz" |url=http://www.golem.de/0605/45408.html |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Golem.de}}

At a 2005 blogger conference in Berlin, Möller gave a lecture on the Open Source Initiative, free knowledge and Wikinews, discussing the latter in the context of other models used by Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Daily Kos and others.{{Cite web |date=5 September 2005 |title=Blogs vom Bauchnabel oder für die kritische Öffentlichkeit |url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Blogs-vom-Bauchnabel-oder-fuer-die-kritische-Oeffentlichkeit--/meldung/59380 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=heise online |publisher=Heise Zeitschriften Verlag |language=de}} At an Austrian conference on wikis in Vienna in 2005, Möller discussed the advantages of using wikis to compile statistical data, stating that wikis encourage internal transparency and greater participation among coworkers.{{Cite web |date=11 July 2005 |title=Wikis: Zurück in die Zukunft |url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikis-Zurueck-in-die-Zukunft--/meldung/65850 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=heise online |publisher=Heise Zeitschriften Verlag}}

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Möller has been involved with the Wikimedia Foundation projects including Wikipedia since 2001, both as an editor and as a developer of the MediaWiki software and Wikinews.{{Cite news |last=Kiss |first=Jemina |date=15 December 2004 |title=Wikinews trumpets online revolution |url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1178.shtml |access-date=13 May 2008 |work=Online Journalism News |publisher=Mousetrap Media Ltd.}} He drafted the initial project proposal for Wikinews (using the username Eloquence),{{Cite book |last=Allan |first=Stuart |title=Online news: journalism and the Internet |publisher=McGraw-Hill International |year=2006 |isbn=0-335-22121-1 |pages=136}} and also was instrumental in developing Wikimedia Commons.{{Cite web |last=Donohue |first=Alex |date=10 January 2008 |title=Wikimedia hires Moeller as deputy director |url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/775852/Wikimedia-hires-Moeller-deputy-director/ |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=Brand Republic News |publisher=Brand Republic}} He first proposed the idea for Wikimedia Commons in March 2004.{{Cite web |last=Möller |first=Erik |date=19 March 2004 |title=Proposal: commons.wikimedia.org |url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014885.html |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=[Wikipedia-l] |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}} Möller described a difference between Wikipedia and Wikinews to The New York Times by saying: {{qi|Wikinews articles are short-lived, so there is a reduced feeling of contributing to a knowledge base that will last a lifetime.}} {{qi|We are the new media. We make our own rules,}} explained Möller at a 2005 Citizen Reporters' Forum in Seoul.{{Cite web |last=Pollard |first=William |date=11 July 2005 |title=Citizen Reporters Turn to Print for Delivery |url=http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=236662&rel_no=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605042855/http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=236662&rel_no=1 |archive-date=5 June 2011 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=OhmyNews International |publisher=english.ohmynews.com}} He stated that Wikinews published a print edition every day and was working on other formats, including audio versions of articles.{{Cite web |last=Kiss |first=Jemima |date=14 July 2005 |title=News round-up: Citizen journalism is officially cool |url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/51449.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118145510/http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/51449.php |archive-date=18 November 2007 |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=Journalism.co.uk – Online Journalism News |publisher=Mousetrap Media Ltd.}} Möller was interviewed by Journalism.co.uk on the eightfold increase in traffic to Wikinews on the day of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, and on the effects of free news.{{Cite web |last=Kiss |first=Jemima |date=13 July 2005 |title=Wikinews supercharged by London bombings coverage |url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/51443.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109103516/http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/51443.php |archive-date=9 November 2007 |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=Journalism.co.uk – Online Journalism News |publisher=Mousetrap Media Ltd.}} {{qi|While Wikinews is still much, much smaller than Wikipedia, the potential for news coverage goes far beyond what Wikipedia is currently doing,}} said Möller. He gave periodic "State of the Wiki" reports at Wikinews, where he defended the project's use of both original material and information synthesized from other media sources.{{Cite book |last=Kolodzy |first=Janet |title=Convergence Journalism: Writing and Reporting Across the News Media |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2006 |isbn=0-7425-3886-9 |pages=238–239, 243}}

Möller was appointed the chief research officer of the WMF in June 2005 but resigned in August that year, citing personal differences with members of the Board.{{Cite web |last=Möller |first=Erik |date=17 August 2005 |title=Resignation as CRO |url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/017269.html |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=[Foundation-l] |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}}{{Cite web |title=Chief Research Officer |url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chief_Research_Officer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128064835/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chief_Research_Officer |archive-date=28 January 2007 |access-date=13 May 2008 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}} He had been chief technology officer of Stichting Open Progress,{{Cite web |date=20 January 2008 |title=Bay Area Biz: Movers and shakers |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/20/BUCGUHQ5F.DTL&type=printable |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |publisher=sfgate.com}} the not-for-profit legal arm of OmegaWiki, based in the Netherlands. At Stichting Open Progress Möller was the manager of a group of developers who worked on the implementation of OmegaWiki. Möller also hosted other wiki communities such as WikiEducator.org.

He was elected in September 2006 to replace Angela Beesley on the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation,{{Cite web |last=Kleinz |first=Torsten |date=20 January 2007 |title=TP: Die neuen Herausforderungen der Wikipedia |url=http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24476/1.html |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Telepolis |publisher=heise.de |language=de}}{{Cite web |date=26 September 2006 |title=Resolution:Replacement Board member 2006 – Wikimedia Foundation |url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Replacement_Board_member_2006 |access-date=12 May 2008 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}} and in October 2006 he became executive secretary.{{Cite web |date=28 October 2006 |title=Wechsel an der Wikimedia-Spitze |url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wechsel-an-der-Wikimedia-Spitze--/meldung/80171/from/rss09 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=heise online |publisher=heise.de |language=de}}{{Cite web |date=6 November 2006 |title=Jimmy Wales sai da presidência da enciclopédia online Wikipedia |url=http://idgnow.uol.com.br/carreira/2006/11/06/idgnoticia.2006-11-06.7717485194/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706161122/http://idgnow.uol.com.br/carreira/2006/11/06/idgnoticia.2006-11-06.7717485194/ |archive-date=6 July 2011 |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=Carreira – IDG Now! |publisher=idgnow.uol.com.br |language=pt}} In December 2007 he resigned from the Board and was named deputy director,{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Sue |author-link=Sue Gardner |date=18 December 2007 |title=Announcing Erik Moeller as Wikimedia Deputy Director |url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/036323.html |access-date=12 May 2008 |website=[Foundation-l] |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}} effective as of 10 January 2008.{{Cite web |date=9 January 2008 |title=Erik Möller Deputy Director – Wikimedia Foundation |url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller_Deputy_Director |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130002755/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller_Deputy_Director |archive-date=30 January 2012 |access-date=12 May 2008 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}} In this role Möller was involved with financing analysis for the Foundation, and with executive director Sue Gardner gave a presentation to Sun Microsystems in an attempt to gain funding from the company for WMF.{{Cite web |date=9 January 2008 |title=Zwei Millionen US-Dollar für Wikipedia & Co |url=http://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zwei-Millionen-US-Dollar-fuer-Wikipedia-Co-176802.html |access-date=15 May 2010 |website=heise online |publisher=Heise Zeitschriften Verlag |language=de}} This presentation was later leaked to Wikinews.

As deputy director, Möller was responsible for managing and implementing the technical strategy of the organization.{{Cite web |date=13 January 2008 |title=Bay Area Biz : January 2008 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bayareabiz/month?blogid=44&year=2008&month=01&cat=&o=10 |access-date=13 May 2008 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |publisher=sfgate.com}} Möller explained to the Los Angeles Times that the foundation needed to be careful with the kinds of deals they wanted to make, and said: {{qi|We don't want to endanger the mission by entering into deals that would conflict with it.}}{{Cite news |last=Semuels |first=Alana |date=13 March 2008 |title=Wikipedia Experiences Growing Pains |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2004286879_btwikipedia17.html |work=Los Angeles Times |page=Financial section}} Möller was the Wikimedia Foundation's representative on the institutional council of the Encyclopedia of Life.{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Institutional Partners |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Life |publisher=eol.org |url=http://eol.org/info/3?language=en#COUNCIL |access-date=4 June 2014}} Through this contact, Möller helped convince the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (a backer of the Encyclopedia of Life) to donate $3{{nbs}}million to Wikimedia, the single largest donation Wikimedia has received to date.{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Sue |author-link=Sue Gardner |date=25 March 2008 |title=Sloan awards Wikimedia USD 1m annually for three years |url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-March/040440.html |access-date=15 May 2008 |website=[Foundation-l] |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}}

In 2014 Möller's account was blocked on the German Wikipedia because he created, implemented and used "superprotect" rights to overrule the German Wikipedia's decision to not enable a new mechanism to view images until legal and technical problems were fixed.{{Cite web |last=Kleinz |first=Torsten |date=12 August 2014 |title="Superprotect": Wikimedia behält das letzte Wort bei Wikipedia |url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Superprotect-Wikimedia-behaelt-das-letzte-Wort-bei-Wikipedia-2290569.html |website=heise online |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Class war! Wikipedia's workers revolt again |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/class_war_wikipedias_workers_revolt_after_bourgeois_papershufflers_suspend_democracy/ |website=The Register}}

Möller left the WMF on 30 April 2015.{{Cite web |last=Tretikov |first=Lila |author-link=Lila Tretikov |last2=Erik Möller |last3=Brion Vibber |last4=Magnus Manske |author-link4=Magnus Manske |display-authors=etal |date=13 April 2015 |title=A transition and a new chapter. |url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-April/thread.html#77516 |access-date=20 August 2016 |website=Wikimedia-l thread}}{{Cite web |author=Resident Mario |display-authors=etal |date=15 April 2015 |title=Management changes continue: Erik Möller to leave Foundation |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-15/News_and_notes |access-date=20 August 2016 |publisher=The Signpost}}

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• {{Cite book |last=Bachner |first=Harald |title=Wiki-systeme als Wissensmanagementtools |publisher=GRIN Verlag |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-638-67365-5 |pages=6, 8, 29}}
• {{Cite book |last=Gepp |first=Roman |title=Bildung zwischen Luxus und Notwendigkeit |publisher=LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster |year=2006 |isbn=3-8258-9360-X |pages=128, 129, 135, 192 |language=de}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Kühne |first=Stefan |date=September 2005 |title=Veni, vidi, Wiki! Rezension zu Erik Möller: Die heimliche Medienrevolution. Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern |url=http://www.e-beratungsjournal.net/ausgabe_0105/rezension_kuehne.pdf |journal=E-beratungsjournal |language=de |publisher=e-beratungsjournal.net |issue=1 |issn=1816-7632}}

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• {{Cite web |date=9 January 2008 |title=Erik Möller Deputy Director |url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller_Deputy_Director |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130002755/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller_Deputy_Director |archive-date=30 January 2012 |access-date=27 August 2017 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}}
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