I asked Ward about this and he said someone must be putting words in his mouth.
Cheers, Brian
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Putting the utter stupidity of discussing Jimbo's sex life at all aside, I will say that this episode rings true for me in one important sense. As an employee of a for-profit wiki, I've had the *entire* 20+ person staff agree unanimously that they love Wikipedia despite Jimmy Wales, emphasis on the "despite". Part of me recognizes that all this hullabaloo is a product of the media's inane focus on the cult of celebrity, but still...wouldn't we just be better off without him? My moral compass swings to a resounding Yes.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/03/2008, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Sue Gardner did answer on Danny Wool's blog, fwiw.
Mostly the media interest is as cheap tabloid filler. All the London commuter papers, with the focus of the "story" being dumping people using technology. In between fabulously newsworthy reports on Kelly Osbourne's haircut.
- d.
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