On Dec 13, 2007 9:43 PM, wikien-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:43:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon. On 14/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
According to the Register, the Foundation's former COO was convicted
felon.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon/
This is just great. And now all the Register's previous material looks
correct
because they broke this nonsense. This is likely going to be all over
the
newspapers tomorrow. I'm so shocked and appalled that I don't even know what to say about this. Why were basic background checks not done and why didn't we know about this sooner. Are we trying to implode?
Why would you do a background check for a pretty standard office job? I don't know about the US, but in the UK such background checks are usually only done for jobs where the person will be working with children, or similar.http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
It depends on the company. For the companies I have worked for, a background check including criminal record check is pretty much standard. Some even require drug tests, and I work in the financial services industry where there pretty much is no exposure to child care.
--Avi