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

[geni]

On 16/12/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/12/2007, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:16:27 +0000, "Thomas Dalton"
> > <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > In my experience, it's the same in the UK. I think people are failing
> > > to consider the fact that while Wikipedia is enormous, the WMF is
> > > tiny. Yes, she had the title "COO", but that's because she was the
> > > only person in her department, so she had to be in charge of it. There
> > > is a big difference between the COO of a large multinational
> > > corporation and a solitary bookkeeper of a one-office charity.
>
> > But some involved in the foundation would seem to be trying to have
> > things both ways; to expect their organization to be treated as a
> > small private club when that suits them, and have it be treated as a
> > huge multinational operation when *that* suits them.
>
>
> You appear to be attempting to deny the point that it is in fact both
> - it's not a matter of "suits them", it's a matter of which aspect is
> relevant. There may be hundreds of thousands of volunteers, but it
> really is a vanishingly tiny charity office.
>

Which is about all you need to run a shoestring ISP. When the
foundation sticks to being that it generally does okey. It is when it
moves beyond that that things become problematical.


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geni