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== Career ==
== Career ==
His research so far has included e.g. workplace studies of knowledge-intensive workers on the example of software engineers in the US and in Europe,<ref>[http://www.informationweek.in/Software/10-06-28/Software_engineers_doubt_competence_of_Managers.aspx Claburn, Thomas (2010) ''Software engineers doubt competence of Managers''] ''informationweek.in'', accessed on 1 October 2012</ref> summed up in a recent book on "the new [[knowledge workers]]",<ref>Jemielniak, Dariusz (2012), [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_New_Knowledge_Workers.html?id=QZPpdB_yfqgC ''The New Knowledge Workers''], Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84844-753-0.</ref> as well as the [[social organization]] of Wikipedia.<ref>Cohen, Noam (2010) [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/media/12link.html?_r=1 ''How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali''], The New York Times (nytimes.com), accessed on 1 October 2012</ref><ref>Hamann, Mathias (2010) [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,706001,00.html ''Wikipedia ist wie "World of Warcraft"''] [[Der Spiegel]] (spiegel.de) accessed on 1 October 2012</ref> He conducted research projects at [[Cornell University]] (2004-2005), [[Harvard University]] (2007), [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] (2008), and [[Harvard Law School]] (2011-2012).
His research so far has included e.g. workplace studies of knowledge-intensive workers on the example of software engineers in the US and in Europe,<ref>[http://www.informationweek.in/Software/10-06-28/Software_engineers_doubt_competence_of_Managers.aspx Claburn, Thomas (2010) ''Software engineers doubt competence of Managers''] ''informationweek.in'', accessed on 1 October 2012</ref> summed up in a recent book on "the new [[knowledge workers]]",<ref>Jemielniak, Dariusz (2012), [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_New_Knowledge_Workers.html?id=QZPpdB_yfqgC ''The New Knowledge Workers''], Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84844-753-0.</ref> as well as the [[social organization]] of Wikipedia.<ref>Cohen, Noam (2010) [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/media/12link.html?_r=1 ''How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali''], The New York Times (nytimes.com), accessed on 1 October 2012</ref><ref>Hamann, Mathias (2010) [http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,706001,00.html ''Wikipedia ist wie "World of Warcraft"''] [[Der Spiegel]] (spiegel.de) accessed on 1 October 2012</ref> He conducted research projects at [[Cornell University]] (2004-2005), [[Harvard University]] (2007), [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] (2008), and [[Harvard Law School]] (2011-2012, 2015-2016).


Within Wikimedia movement, Dariusz is involved in the [[Polish Wikipedia]], where he serves as an admin and a bureaucrat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/wikipedia_s_bureaucracy_problem_and_how_to_fix_it.html|title=The Unbearable Bureaucracy of Wikipedia|last=Jemielniak|first=Dariusz|work=[[Slate.com]]|date=22 June 2014|accessdate=30 June 2014}}</ref> as well as globally as one of the [[Meta:Stewards|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.
Within Wikimedia movement, Dariusz is involved in the [[Polish Wikipedia]], where he serves as an admin and a bureaucrat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/wikipedia_s_bureaucracy_problem_and_how_to_fix_it.html|title=The Unbearable Bureaucracy of Wikipedia|last=Jemielniak|first=Dariusz|work=[[Slate.com]]|date=22 June 2014|accessdate=30 June 2014}}</ref> as well as globally as one of the [[Meta:Stewards|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.


His NGO running experience includes being an elected chairperson of "Inkubator" association (organizing a network of young Poles with literary talents) for one term as well as being an elected chairperson of [[Collegium Invisibile]] association for three terms. In both cases responsibilities included writing grant proposals and active fundraising. Collegium Invisibile experience allowed Dariusz to participate in the [[Higher Education Support Program]] within the [[Soros Foundation]] network, including a 300h course on fundraising in Budapest, Moscow, and [[Blagoevgrad]]. He also has served on the Funds Dissemination Committee of the "English Teaching" program (aimed at improving language skills of English teachers in rural areas of Poland) coordinated by Fundacja Nida from the funds of [http://www.pafw.pl/?setlanguage=2 Polish-American Freedom Foundation] over the last 8+ years.<ref>[http://atlanticreview.org/p/Nida-English-teachers.html ''Continuing Education for English teachers in Rural areas in Poland''] atlanticreview.org, accessed on 1 October 2012</ref>
His experience running NGO includes being an elected chairperson of "Inkubator" association (organizing a network of young Poles with literary talents) for one term as well as being an elected chairperson of [[Collegium Invisibile]] association for three terms. In both cases responsibilities included writing grant proposals and active fundraising. Collegium Invisibile experience allowed Dariusz to participate in the [[Higher Education Support Program]] within the [[Soros Foundation]] network, including a 300h course on fundraising in Budapest, Moscow, and [[Blagoevgrad]]. He also has served on the Funds Dissemination Committee of the "English Teaching" program (aimed at improving language skills of English teachers in rural areas of Poland) coordinated by Fundacja Nida from the funds of [http://www.pafw.pl/?setlanguage=2 Polish-American Freedom Foundation] over the last 8+ years.<ref>[http://atlanticreview.org/p/Nida-English-teachers.html ''Continuing Education for English teachers in Rural areas in Poland''] atlanticreview.org, accessed on 1 October 2012</ref>


He has been an entrepreneur, having founded [[Ling.pl]], the most popular{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} Polish online dictionary (with up to 300 thousand unique visitors per month), and a couple of other Internet start-ups.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}
He has been an entrepreneur, having founded [[Ling.pl]], the most popular{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} Polish online dictionary (with up to 300 thousand unique visitors per month), and a couple of other Internet start-ups.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

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Dariusz Jemielniak
Dariusz Jemielniak in 2015.
Born (1975-03-17) March 17, 1975 (age 49)
CitizenshipPolish

Dariusz Jemielniak (born March 17, 1975, Warsaw) 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. His interests revolve about critical management studies, open collaboration projects (such as Wikipedia or F/LOSS), narrativity, storytelling, knowledge-intensive organizations, virtual communities, organizational archetypes, all studied by interpretive and qualitative methods.[1] In 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

Career

His research so far has included e.g. workplace studies of knowledge-intensive workers on the example of software engineers in the US and in Europe,[2] summed up in a recent book on "the new knowledge workers",[3] as well as the social organization of Wikipedia.[4][5] He conducted research projects at Cornell University (2004-2005), Harvard University (2007), Berkeley (2008), and Harvard Law School (2011-2012, 2015-2016).

Within Wikimedia movement, Dariusz is involved in the Polish Wikipedia, where he serves as an admin and a bureaucrat,[6] 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.

His experience running NGO includes being an elected chairperson of "Inkubator" association (organizing a network of young Poles with literary talents) for one term as well as being an elected chairperson of Collegium Invisibile association for three terms. In both cases responsibilities included writing grant proposals and active fundraising. Collegium Invisibile experience allowed Dariusz to participate in the Higher Education Support Program within the Soros Foundation network, including a 300h course on fundraising in Budapest, Moscow, and Blagoevgrad. He also has served on the Funds Dissemination Committee of the "English Teaching" program (aimed at improving language skills of English teachers in rural areas of Poland) coordinated by Fundacja Nida from the funds of Polish-American Freedom Foundation over the last 8+ years.[7]

He has been an entrepreneur, having founded Ling.pl, the most popular[citation needed] Polish online dictionary (with up to 300 thousand unique visitors per month), and a couple of other Internet start-ups.[citation needed]

Dariusz is the Polish Chief Desk of the Annals of Improbable Research, best known for running the annual Ig Nobel Prizes ceremony.[8]

He's the author of Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia (2014) first published in Poland in 2013 as Życie wirtualnych dzikich: netnografia Wikipedii.

Notes and references

  1. ^ About us. Dariusz Jemielniak CROW website, accessed on 1 October 2012
  2. ^ Claburn, Thomas (2010) Software engineers doubt competence of Managers informationweek.in, accessed on 1 October 2012
  3. ^ Jemielniak, Dariusz (2012), The New Knowledge Workers, Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84844-753-0.
  4. ^ Cohen, Noam (2010) How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali, The New York Times (nytimes.com), accessed on 1 October 2012
  5. ^ Hamann, Mathias (2010) Wikipedia ist wie "World of Warcraft" Der Spiegel (spiegel.de) accessed on 1 October 2012
  6. ^ Jemielniak, Dariusz (22 June 2014). "The Unbearable Bureaucracy of Wikipedia". Slate.com. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  7. ^ Continuing Education for English teachers in Rural areas in Poland atlanticreview.org, accessed on 1 October 2012
  8. ^ Improbable research bio note, accessed on 1 October 2012
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