[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

[Marcus Buck]

Tim Starling hett schreven:
> On 10/05/10 15:25, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva wrote:
>   
>> BTW, I also have a broader question. Who entrusted power to the Board
>> of Trustees? 
>>     
>
> Jimmy Wales determined the structure of the Wikimedia Foundation when
> he created it. He and Bomis donated the relevant assets, such as the
> domain names, to the Foundation at the time it was formed.
>
> We should remember, when we criticise his use of whatever remnant of
> power that he has left, that he could have easily structured Wikimedia
> as a for-profit entity, with him retaining majority control. We have
> Jimmy to thank for Wikimedia's non-profit status, its open-source
> software stack and its free content license.
>   
If Wikipedia wouldn't have been so free today it would stand where 
Citizendium stands and another free encyclopedia project would have 
evolved in place. Wikipedia wasn't the only community-driven 
encyclopedia project. But it made the race and beat all its competitors 
cause no other project was as free and easily accessible as Wikipedia.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox