David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The article is basically not even wrong. And that's because they really don't care, and literally just made up some >shit: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/16/jimmy-wales- fox-news-is-wrong-no-shakeup/ Sources of this type, even if owned by a large media company, need to be taken with an extra grain of salt.
And then there is this idea that Jimbo has relinquished actual authority by giving up some functional capacities, when he plainly said in about as many words this was a symbolic gesture to diffuse and refocus criticism. The naive reader might think it means "shakedown", we who've been around for a while know that functional flags can be turned off an on, and Jimbo doesn't edit Wikipedia anyway.
-SC