Since Jimmy is now also on the board for 'The Guardian', maybe its about time he stepped down from the WMF board? And regarding James, it honestly no longer matters why he was 'fired', its obvious the board is filling up its stocks in google employees (lol) and it won't likely change even after the VoNC on Geshuri and I think we all can expect more 'ridiculous' hirings in the future as well..
Regarding the Knight grant application/letter, the question isn't why the community needs a reason to see the application/letter, the question is why the community cannot....it again goes back to the old question..who is serving who?
On 1/29/16, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
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:
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...
Fae
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