On 28 January 2016 at 16:12, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote: ...
So, what does it actually mean when Jimmy Wales says something like this to the community in response to criticism?
Do people think this is good governance, secretly admire the Machiavellian chutzpah, or what?
Jimmy Wales has defended his use of *"Utter fucking bullshit"* when abusing James Heilman.[1][2] In a hostile environment where "founders rights" appear to mean that Wales can push his colleagues around like a childish bully, in a way that anyone else would have their account blocked from Wikimedia projects, we cannot expect to hold this WMF trustee to account for their actions as we cannot even properly hold him to account against the WMF terms of use.
In other charitable organisations, abusing volunteers or employees with variations of "fuck" and being incapable of recognising that is a problem, would make you entirely unsuitable to be a trustee. It's a shame that the WMF board have no higher standards for civility or leadership than this. It's an all time low.
Links: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=70... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=70...
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