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

[George Herbert]

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 at 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?
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2007 10:14 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 14, 2007 7:46 AM, Christiano Moreschi
> > <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, there's not necessarily any informant at all, though the Register have got their facts completely correct (as far as I can make out, this pretty much all tallies with my own data). Virtually all the data for confirmation of the facts is available online for free, though actually finding this data would either require a tip-off or a very impressive dirt-digging operation.
> > >
> > > Really, I don't think anyone's accusing Doran of stealing money from WMF (yet), much as she seems to have stolen from others. Two issues here - the dazzling incompetence displayed by the WMF people/Board in not doing a criminal records check (over here, in the UK, you can't even breathe without getting Criminal Records Bureau clearance, I'm sure fellow UK-based WikiMedians can back me up here) - and if, and to what extent, people at WMF have lied to us and to the media.
> > >
> > > Fuckups can be forgiven and forgotten. Nobody ever trusts someone caught out in lying again, though.
> > >
> > > CM
> >
> > 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
> > george.herbert at gmail.com
> >
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