• December 16, 2008

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Web encyclopedia Wikipedia, on Monday announced the appointment of Neeru Khosla to its Advisory Board.

Khosla is co-founder and chair of CK-12, a non-profit based in Palo Alto, California that is pioneering the concept of "open source textbooks." In September, Virginia announced a collaboration with CK-12 to produce an open-source physics textbook, a major coup for the young non-profit organization.

The Wikimedia Foundation--which operates the volunteer-written encyclopedia with a staff of just under 25 people--created its Advisory Board early last year as a mechanism for input from leaders and thinkers in fields like education, technology, and free culture. Advisory Board members convene with Wikimedia's leadership once a year, and also support the organization in their specific areas of expertise.--Gavin O'Malley