Active members

Username: 80686

Active on: alemannic Wikipedia, german Wikipedia, Meta Wiki

Manuel is a founding member of Wikimedia CH and has worked on several initiatives of Wikimedia CH, such as events like Wikipedia Day, giving talks at external events, contact to the Wikimedia Foundation and other Wikimedia Chapters or taking care of the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia CH. He owns a serverhosting company which is sponsoring the webhosting to Wikimedia CH and several other chapters.

In 2009 Manuel has gathered a team which started the openZIM project . openZIM has developed an open standard file format for storing Wikimedia content offline, reader and writer software for ZIM files and a library to be used by publishers and other software developers in order implement the ZIM file format easily.

Beside that Manuel is an active member at Wikimedia Deutschland and a board member of Wikimedia Österreich.

Rupert was founding member and treasurer in the first years. He was involved in obtaining the tax exemption of WMCH and the participation in the yearly fundraiser, as well in the cooperation with the other chapters and the Wikimedia Foundation. Nowadays, unfortunately having a lot less time for Wikimedia, his focus is on GLAM and supporting Wikimedia projects in financially less favored countries.