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

[White Cat]

  To all,
  Can we please get back to writing an encyclopedia? Pounding Jimbo, the
foundation, each other or myself wont solve anything at this point.
       - White Cat

On Dec 17, 2007 4:39 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Bryan Derksen wrote:
> > Well, maybe not Jimbo then, but having almost _anyone_ on the "inside"
> > be the one to break something like this to the public would be better
> > than having it be the Register or Wikipedia Review or somesuch.
> >
> > IMO it's not so much a question of spin as it is a question of getting
> > the whole story out at once. That way there's less room for speculation,
> > which usually tends toward worst-case scenarios, and it improves our
> > credibility while depriving critics of an opportunity to lord it over
> > us. Even if the whole story really _is_ a "worst case scenario", at
> > least we'd get credit for coming clean on it.
> >
> > Also perhaps this is a sign that Jimbo and the board need to reconsider
> > the confidentiality agreements that they've signed onto, if something
> > like that was what was preventing them from discussing matters that are
> > already out in the public record anyway.
>
>
> I can only remind everyone, again, that the allegations in The Register
> were unknown to us prior to the story in The Register.  Confidentiality
> agreements were not what kept us from "getting the whole story out at
> once"... it was that we did not know about the whole story until it was
> published.
>
> Confidentiality agreements have nothing to do with that.
>
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