Peter Meyer

Peter Benjamin Meyer (User:Econterms) joined the Board in 2013 and is Treasurer of Wikimedia-DC. He was a software engineer in a past career. Now he's an economic researcher, active in the fields of economic history and the history of technology. His research focuses on how pools of information—like wikis—support invention and the start of new industries. On Wikipedia he has added content on early aviation, nineteenth-century science, on economics, and in new subjects with each edit-a-thon. He is a longtime user of MediaWiki and co-founded one available across the US government called Statipedia. He usually attends the annual Wikimania and WikiSym conferences, gave a couple of talks and led an edit-a-thon in 2012-13, and aspires to continue and improve at it. He chairs Wikimedia DC's new public policy committee.