[WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.

[Christiano Moreschi]

Actually, there's not necessarily any informant at all, though the Register have got their facts completely correct (as far as I can make out, this pretty much all tallies with my own data). Virtually all the data for confirmation of the facts is available online for free, though actually finding this data would either require a tip-off or a very impressive dirt-digging operation. 

Really, I don't think anyone's accusing Doran of stealing money from WMF (yet), much as she seems to have stolen from others. Two issues here - the dazzling incompetence displayed by the WMF people/Board in not doing a criminal records check (over here, in the UK, you can't even breathe without getting Criminal Records Bureau clearance, I'm sure fellow UK-based WikiMedians can back me up here) - and if, and to what extent, people at WMF have lied to us and to the media. 

Fuckups can be forgiven and forgotten. Nobody ever trusts someone caught out in lying again, though.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> From: scs at eskimo.com
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:32:32 -0500
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.
> 
> Joshua Zelinsky wrote:
> >Quoting Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com>:
> >> John Lee wrote:
> >>> This is appalling.
> >>
> >> Or else it's no big deal at all.  Partly it depends on how you
> >> look at it.
> >
> > Two problems: first, there were multiple convictions...
> 
> Have we confirmed that, or are we still taking the Register's
> anonymous informant's word for it?  (I haven't followed the whole
> thread; apologies if this point has in fact been cleared up.)
> 
> I shouldn't have said "it's no big deal"; clearly it's at least
> a little bit of a deal.  But, as potentially serious as it is,
> I don't think it's a world-is-coming-to-an-end deal.
> 
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