Meet Wikipedia's New Boss Lila Treitkov

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Oddly enough, this came from her Wikipedia page

It’s no secret Wikipedia has incurred its fair share of perception issues.

Just take a gander on the Web and you will find a plethora of articles about distrusting its information because of rogue “editors,” pages that are made by trolls just to besmirch any range of people, or how about its TrustRank is fading like a chin lift on Bruce Jenner.

Yet, it remains one of the most influential and highly searched websites on the planet, so things can’t be so bad, right? Whelp, things are about to get much better if you ask Wikimedia (the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia) bigwigs as Lila Treitkov just became its executive director.

Based on a story from re/code, Treitkov, who was born and raised in the Soviet Union, was formerly chief product officer at SugarCRM, having worked at the business software company since 2006.

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