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

[G MZ]

I cannot see what difference it would have made if Christiano had told Jimbo
- what would Jimbo have done differently?

Giacomo

On Dec 15, 2007 10:40 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> As he's already said, he simply didn't consider the possibility that
> this could have happened without anyone at the foundation knowing.
> Perhaps if the foundation were more transparent more often, he would
> have thought it odd that they hadn't said anything, but it's pretty
> normal for the foundation to know stuff without mentioning it to us.
>
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