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(a)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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