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Wikipedia Wales fighting PR disasters on two fronts
Posted on March 6, 2008 by Gerry
Russian massage parlours, expense fiddling allegations and bonking his lady friend's brains out all night – the recent life and times of Jimmy Wales.
Yesterday's Age broadsheet reports that:
The scandal engulfing Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has spread, with a former executive claiming Wales improperly used the non-profit organisation's funds for his own lavish recreation.Danny Wool said Wales had tried to claim the cost of items such as a visit to a massage parlour in Moscow and expensive bottles of wine.
The claims come just as Wales' messy break-up with a girlfriend he met via his free online encyclopedia plays out in the public domain. Wales was publicly humiliated by estranged girlfriend Rachel Marsden, 33, who released saucy instant message transcripts between the pair and auctioned off some of Wales' clothes on eBay after he apparently broke up with her via a statement on Wikipedia. And while Wales denies he
broke Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules by helping Marsden clean up her Wikipedia entry, the leaked transcripts, published by Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, suggest otherwise.
They show Wales going through proposed changes to Marsden's Wikipedia entry; "Let's actually do this right now," Wales allegedly wrote, "Because the last thing I want to do is take a break from f—ing your brains out all night to work on your wikipedia entry."
On 1/11/15, Lilburne <lilburne@tygers-of-wrath.net> wrote:
> Phoebe, why are you spamming my email? Can you not take whatever issues
> you have to personal email, rather than posting to everyone subscribed,
> willingly or not?
>
> But as you are in my email, weren't you one of those that exhibited
> craven cowardice in respect to the Image Filters? Remind me how did it
> go again.
>
> First they'll be a filter because its the right thing to do.
>
> Oh wait on, the commons porn hounds object and won't vote for us again.
>
> Correction contrary to what you may have heard there will be no image
> filter. So please can you carry on uploading toothbrush masturbation
> images, cucumbers up vaginas, and genital piercing images. Also give
> them everyday tags so that elementary school kids to stumble over them
> when searching for things like "pearl necklace".
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation - Spineless to the last.
> > On 09/01/2015 19:23, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> Dear Toby,
>>
>> It is fine to start a new list or group and then advertise it on
>> existing channels, for those who may be interested in the topic to
>> join. It is not OK to add people to a new group without asking them
>> first. And it is not OK to be rude about other people who participate
>> in Wikimedia. If your aim is to criticise a particular policy or talk
>> about a particular issue, then please do so with civility and without
>> namecalling.
>>
>> I would also note that "Wikimedia-l", as the longtime name of the
>> discussion mailing list that is hosted on Wikimedia's servers, is a
>> particularly misleading name (and one that uses a trademark of the
>> Wikimedia foundation). I'm sure this was intentional on your part, but
>> a word of advice: if you'd like to start a new list and actually have
>> it thrive, don't use a name that is already firmly in use and has many
>> connotations (both good and bad) among editors!
>>
>> I'll be unsubscribing myself.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Phoebe
>>
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With such high profile editors, how does your average Wikipedian sister edit safely ?
Wikipedia Wales fighting PR disasters on two fronts
Posted on March 6, 2008 by Gerry
Russian massage parlours, expense fiddling allegations and bonking his lady friend's brains out all night – the recent life and times of Jimmy Wales.
Yesterday's Age broadsheet reports that:
The scandal engulfing Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has spread, with a former executive claiming Wales improperly used the non-profit organisation's funds for his own lavish recreation.Danny Wool said Wales had tried to claim the cost of items such as a visit to a massage parlour in Moscow and expensive bottles of wine.
The claims come just as Wales' messy break-up with a girlfriend he met via his free online encyclopedia plays out in the public domain. Wales was publicly humiliated by estranged girlfriend Rachel Marsden, 33, who released saucy instant message transcripts between the pair and auctioned off some of Wales' clothes on eBay after he apparently broke up with her via a statement on Wikipedia. And while Wales denies he
broke Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules by helping Marsden clean up her Wikipedia entry, the leaked transcripts, published by Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, suggest otherwise.
They show Wales going through proposed changes to Marsden's Wikipedia entry; "Let's actually do this right now," Wales allegedly wrote, "Because the last thing I want to do is take a break from f—ing your brains out all night to work on your wikipedia entry."
On 1/11/15, Lilburne <lilburne@tygers-of-wrath.net> wrote:
> Phoebe, why are you spamming my email? Can you not take whatever issues
> you have to personal email, rather than posting to everyone subscribed,
> willingly or not?
>
> But as you are in my email, weren't you one of those that exhibited
> craven cowardice in respect to the Image Filters? Remind me how did it
> go again.
>
> First they'll be a filter because its the right thing to do.
>
> Oh wait on, the commons porn hounds object and won't vote for us again.
>
> Correction contrary to what you may have heard there will be no image
> filter. So please can you carry on uploading toothbrush masturbation
> images, cucumbers up vaginas, and genital piercing images. Also give
> them everyday tags so that elementary school kids to stumble over them
> when searching for things like "pearl necklace".
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation - Spineless to the last.
> > On 09/01/2015 19:23, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> Dear Toby,
>>
>> It is fine to start a new list or group and then advertise it on
>> existing channels, for those who may be interested in the topic to
>> join. It is not OK to add people to a new group without asking them
>> first. And it is not OK to be rude about other people who participate
>> in Wikimedia. If your aim is to criticise a particular policy or talk
>> about a particular issue, then please do so with civility and without
>> namecalling.
>>
>> I would also note that "Wikimedia-l", as the longtime name of the
>> discussion mailing list that is hosted on Wikimedia's servers, is a
>> particularly misleading name (and one that uses a trademark of the
>> Wikimedia foundation). I'm sure this was intentional on your part, but
>> a word of advice: if you'd like to start a new list and actually have
>> it thrive, don't use a name that is already firmly in use and has many
>> connotations (both good and bad) among editors!
>>
>> I'll be unsubscribing myself.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Phoebe
>>
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