I'd just assumed the Foundation knew about this about all this and were keeping quiet (as well they might, I suppose). I was as surprised as anyone by Jimbo's announcement that he knew nothing - which I of course believe.
Oh, dear, what a mess this is. But really. Your COO gets carted off to prison and nobody at the organisation - Board, staff - knows anything. I'm prepared to believe this but only up to a point. Come on - there is something here we're not being told.
I'd like to know as much as you who tipped off the Register - though please bear in mind the possibility that nobody may have done so. I repeat - all the information needed to get you started was available for free online. Perhaps they'd seen Carolyn's name in old WMF resolutions and wondered what had happened to her, or maybe they even looked at the archives of Kelly's blog! This would not have required Bernstein-level investigation skills.
CM
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:07:13 -0800 From: george.herbert@gmail.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.
There are a number of good reasons.
If the answer is yes, then Christiano apparently witheld information from the Foundation which Jimbo and others are saying they did not have prior to Cade Metz' asking for comments prior to the story.
Christiano might both have known and been under the misaprehension that the Foundation did know, in which case not telling them makes sense.
Or he might have chosen not to bring it up with them, knowing or suspecting they did not know.
Christiano is up for Arbcom election right now. I think that everyone involved has good cause to want to know whether a candidate is knowingly withholding information from the Foundation.
I am concerned enoughby the appearance of the situation that I just registered a tentative oppose vote; I will withdraw that and apologize if this has been a miscommunication and Moreschi did not in fact know before Metz' article, or if he knew but believed that Jimbo and the Board knew. On Dec 14, 2007 7:54 PM, Nathan Awrich nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that whether Moreschi knew or not is probably irrelevant to the issues here, which in my view are mainly issues of governance and judgement. Out of curiosity, what would any of his possible answers to that question mean to you?
Christiano;
You implied yesterday on Jimmy's en.wp talk page that you'd known about the criminal cases before Cade's article...
Was that imprecise wording, or did you actually have knowledge before the article ran about the arrests and history here? If you did know, did you discuss it with anyone else and give anyone a heads-up on it?
Thanks...
-- -george william herbert
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