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

[John Lee]

On Dec 13, 2007 9:19 PM,  <joshua.zelinsky at 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?

This is appalling. Even if only the broad outline of the story is
true, this will be a bad PR hit for Wikimedia and Wikipedia. I hate to
say it, but looking at the trend in how the WMF has been dealing with
things, Kelly Martin may have been right that it would not last very
long.

Johnleemk