Nathan wrote:
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*In an interview with The Associated Press, Florence Devouard, who chairs the Wikimedia Foundation, defended Wales and said he had simply been "slow in submitting receipts." She pointed out that the foundation rejected the steakhouse expense.*
*A short time later, in an e-mail exchange with her fellow board members, Devouard reported that she had persuaded the AP that "the money story was a no story." Yet she proceeded to indicate the opposite, upbraiding Wales for having asked the foundation to pay the steakhouse tab.*
*"I find (it) tiring to see how you are constantly trying to rewrite the past," she wrote to Wales in the message, which was obtained by the AP. "Get a grip!"*
</quote> True?
Nathan
Yeah. The first quote comes from a direct discussion I had with the journalist. The two other quotes were taken from two different emails sent to the comcom list.
The comcom list is supposingly an internal list to deal with communication issues. A *private* and *confidential* list. Unfortunately, some members of that list (and I have no idea who) are also leaking information. It also happened on internal-l some time ago (again, no idea who is the author of the leak).
We are currently in an odd situation. I wish from all my heart that we be transparent as much as possible. But for all the transparency in the world, there are stuff that is just internal discussion, cases where we need to discuss openly without the fear that it will make the headlines the next day. Unfortunately, there is now no way we can be certain that a discussion we have anywhere, be it irc, email or phone, will not be leaked.
These are very sad times.
Anthere