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10THE WIKIPEDIA PHENOMENON IN TODAY’S SOCIETY: FIFTEEN YEARS ONIván Martínez · @protoplasmakid Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licenceIván Martínez (1983) studied history at the UNAM and is a journalist and Wikipedian. Since 2012, he has been president of Wikimedia México A.C., the local representative of the Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia. He was chief coordinator of the 11th international Wikimania conference held from 15 to 19 July 2015, and is a member of the foundation’s Funds Dissemination Committee and a volunteer for Wikipedia in Spanish.As a lecturer, he has given talks on free knowledge in seven Mexican states and at some 50 university, business and cultural institutions. He has taken part in international events related to the Wikimedia movement in France, Germany, Poland, Israel, China, Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom, where he has delivered four lectures on his projects.Since 2013 he has conducted the only Wikipedia-based radio show in the world: Moebius 909, broadcast by Ibero 90.9 FM, a public radio station of the Universidad Iberoamericana. He wrote for the FayerWayer, Código Espagueti and El Diario.es blogs. His opinions have been taken up by international media such as the South China Morning Herald, Radio Netherlands, Radio Amherst Massachusetts and Yorokobu and by the leading national television, radio and Internet media.THE WIKIPEDIA PHENOMENON IN TODAY’S SOCIETY: FIFTEEN YEARS ON · IVÁN MARTÍNEZSmart Culture: Impact of the Internet on Artistic Creation