: web: Listless Wikimedia "In Chaos" Following Co-founder Jimmy Wales Resignation ...

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Frode Hegland <frode () hyperwords net>
> Date: May 16, 2010 7:01:38 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: web: Listless Wikimedia "In Chaos" Following Co-founder Jimmy Wales Resignation  ...

> "Wikimedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has abruptly stepped down following a controversial porn purge that saw Wales 
> himself single-handedly deleting questionable content from Wikimedia Foundation servers.
>
> The purge was the result of a FOX News investigation started in April that discovered a large amount of pornographic 
> material on Wikimedia's servers. When FOX News asked Wikimedia donors how they felt about this, the questions started 
> rolling in and the offending imagery started going away.
>
> Therein lies the issue: Many editors in the organization's "inner circle" disagreed with the way Wales handled the 
> pornography deletions—some did not see the content as objectionable at all, while others appaently argued the 
> deletions went against the organization's inherent openness.
>
> In any event, Wales has relinquished administrative rights, but will remain a board member. The resignation, 
> according to an unnamed source, has sent Wikimedia "into chaos" with no one at the wheel. [Venture Beat, Neowi..."
>      http://gizmodo.com/5540172/listless-wikimedia-in-chaos-following-co+founder-jimmy-wales-resignation
>      http://tinyurl.com/23u835l 
>
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>     Frode Hegland, director
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