[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

[Thomas Dalton]

>  The bigger problem are the allegations mentioned in the article about
>  use of foundation funds.  Three specific claims are made:
>  -Jimbo tried to expense a $300+ bottle of wine
>  -Jimbo tried to expense a massage parlor visit
>  -Wikimedia foundation took away Jimbo's credit card.
>
>  Obviously, of it any of that were true, it would be super bad, and
>  nothing can be done but watch it play out.
>
>  But, far more likely, if it's false, the foundation needs to find out
>  that it's false, and then get that word out ASAP.  I haven't seen them
>  say it's not true.   I haven't looked hard, but then-- nobody else out
>  there is looking hard either.   If I haven't seen "the facts" on the
>  issue, neither has almost everyone else.

If it's true, the foundation clearly knows - they can't have missed
the fact that they took away his credit card, can they? If it's not
true, it would be good if the foundation said so. If it is true, then
clearly they decided at the time that (probably for evangelical/PR
reasons) it was worth keeping him involved, and I'm inclined to trust
them on that decision - now that it's been made public, however, that
changes things. If they can't deny it, they probably do need to do
something...