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

[G MZ]

To be quite honest had I known in advance I would have dismissed it as
incredible that such a high profile media organization could be so naive
when hiring.

Giacomo

On Dec 15, 2007 11:03 PM, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Dec 15, 2007 5:40 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.
>
> I don't like "Ditto" posts, but I'll make an exception for this -
> strong ditto here. I would have done virtually the exact same thing.
> If I were friends or having a chat with someone from the foundation I
> might have brought the subject up in casual conversation ("Oh,
> speaking of that, is this why..."), but otherwise I wouldn't have gone
> and blown the whistle (so to speak), simply because considering how
> hushed the whole affair was, I would have figured the foundation
> already knew.
>
> As Thomas says, if the foundation did not hush things up so much, we
> would not be so inclined to attribute omniscience to them. I suppose
> some degree of privacy is necessary, but this is the cost we have to
> bear for that.
>
> Johnleemk
>
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