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

[Red Rocket]

On 15/12/2007, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
> Sat Dec 15 11:56:56 UTC 2007
>
> Christiano Moreschi wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Again, I ask you.  If you knew something, why did you not tell me?
>
> --Jimbo
> -------------------
>
> Moreschi, it's a good question. You were keen enough to broadcast on
> this list details of a private mailing list, together with your
> opinion on who is and isn't a liar, seeing it as your moral
> responsibility to involve yourself. So when you discovered something
> very serious about a Foundation employee who had briefly occupied a
> fairly senior position, why wouldn't you drop a quiet note to Jimbo,
> just to make sure he knew what you had found out? Even if you thought
> he maybe knew about some or all of it, why wouldn't you want to make
> sure?
>
> Sarah
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It is not the job of ordinary editors to inform Jimbo of these things.
Suppose he had sent Jimbo a note, what would Jimbo have done, if anything?
Something like this is the sort of thing you'd expect him to know anyway.

--Redrocketboy