Comments on: Wikimedia Foundation: Jimmy Wales 'absolutely' not out

Valleywag reports that the Wikipedia founder was out at the foundation that runs the Web-based encyclopedia, but the foundation strongly disputes it.

[Time1965]

Maybe he SHOULD be off the Board. As the Wikimedia community discusses things (for example, they are currently debating how to handle Biographies of Living People [BLPs], which get vandalized easily and then Wikimedia gets sued because some snot-nosed junior high kid thinks it's funny to call someone gay), all you hear is "Jimmy says..." and "But Jimbo wants...." He rules Wikipedia like a dictator. Even if his positions are ill-thought out, dead-wrong, or too casually tossed off, because "Jimmy says" -- well, that's the end of the matter right there. Debate over. That's not how it should run.

[HlLLARY CLITON]

Looks like Owen Thomas should be out of a job

[mattflaschen]

"Indeed, in an e-mail sent on December 28, 2008, to the Wikimedia Foundation's e-mail list, board chair Michael Snow wrote, among other things, "We...had a unanimous vote to re-appoint Jimmy Wales to his position as Community Founder Trustee.""

Surely, you're not suggesting that ValleyWag got a story wrong?

[David Gerard]

Valleywag/Gawker/The Register are basically ad-banner trolls, who will write any ludicrous BS that will GET THE PAGE CLICKS.

Don't feed the trolls.

[AppleSuxLeo]

I heard Johnny Elephant Seal is his big competition.

[thekohser]

David Gerard is basically a Jimmy Wales sycophant who calls a "troll" any legitimate critic of his Free Culture puppet-master. Just look at any mainstream media story that questions the integrity of Wales or the Wikimedia governance -- Gerard is typically right there in the Comments field, defending his life's cause and belittling professionals who hold themselves to standards that the Wikimedia Foundation and its culture can't even comprehend.