What impact do you think you can have on the world?

Well, I am not sure whether it is of any interest, but I am a professor in one of the world-leading universities (physics/nanoscience). I am mostly interested in Wikimedia projects since I can write articles about some stuff others do not know so much (it is mostly my side-interests, not so much my research interest) and since I apparently can be useful in resolving conflicts and creating strategy at least fro Russian Wikipedia. Frankly speaking, I believe that currently the Wikimedia projects are badly-structured mess (though without any doubts much better than even a couple years ago), and I expect that they become less messy and more structured. The major possible impact on the world would be that people stop using rumors instead of the information, and start digesting information.

Yaroslav Blanter16:49, 4 February 2010