Chris Koerner
Senior Movement Communications Specialist
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Koerner is a Senior Movement Communications Specialist with 11 years of experience designing inclusive, community-centered communications and product support for the Wikimedia movement. He combines project management, technical work, and editorial strategy to build platforms like Diff—a community news hub he led from concept to a feature-rich site serving tens of thousands of readers and hundreds of volunteer authors. Skilled at translating between engineers, product teams, and global volunteer communities, he focuses on equity, multilingual access, and privacy-aware metrics to amplify diverse voices. Chris brings a background in web strategy, data visualization, and open collaboration from prior roles in healthcare and higher education, where he advocated “open by default” practices. He prefers hands-on problem solving that makes people’s lives easier and often leverages modest technical builds to achieve outsized impact across distributed communities. Based in St. Louis, he’s reachable off-LinkedIn and maintains a public presence at clkoerner.com.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Communication, Bachelor of Arts, Communication at Saint Louis UniversityAssociate’s Degree, Theatre, Associate’s Degree, Theatre at Jefferson College
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (74)
mediawiki10
collaborative-editing10
wikipedia10
wordpress10
wikimedia10
mediawiki-extension10
plugin10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
twitter9
webscraping9
feed9
espn9
knowledge-management9
js9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/diff-blog
May 2020 - Apr 2021
GitHub mirror of the code used by https://diff.wikimedia.org
Contributions:156 commits, 11 pushes, 29 branches in 11 months
wikimediagithub-mirrordiff
ckoerner/Wikimedia-Commons-Vanity-Stats
Apr 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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