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

Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk
Sat Dec 15 11:49:10 UTC 2007


For the very simple reason that I found it impossible to believe that the COO of WMF got carted off to jail and nobody bothered to tell the boss (that's you). Evidently I was wrong. It's somewhat hard to believe, but it seems to be true. How bizarre.

CM

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> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:36:15 -0800
> From: jwales at wikia.com
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.
> 
> Christiano Moreschi wrote:
> > The one thing I don't understand is this. Jimbo says he had no
> > knowledge of this whole Carolyn Doran business until it hit The
> > Register. That's fine, I guess we have to believe that. Did no one
> > bother to tell him? Evidently not. I refuse to believe that no one at
> > WMF knew anything until The Register made their phone call/published
> > the story. What I am asking is who knew what when. The whole reaction
> > to this has been one of confusion - this was always going to hit the
> > press anyway, so surely a more coordinated response could have been
> > planned?
> 
> "did no one bother to tell him?"
> "this was always going to hit the press, so surely a more coordinated 
> response could have been planned"
> 
> Moreschi, you are the only one who has claimed to have known in advance, 
> and so my question is: why didn't *you* tell me?
> 
> I learned that the Register was going to run some kind of story just 
> hours before they ran it, and even then I had no idea what would be in it.
> 
> If you knew something, why didn't you tell me?
> 
> --Jimbo
> 
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