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[Wikibooks News] Jimbo, the founder of Wikimedia, has been the subject of a lot of gossip, and there appears to be a little bit of an ongoing quarrel between Jimbo and Danny Wool. I had no idea who Danny Wool even was before Google Reader suggested that I subscribe to his blog.
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[Webby's World] Does Wikipedia need or want Jimbo Wales?: No, Wikipedia no longer needs Jimmy Wales. We needed him in the beginning for the funding his company Bomis provided, and before we had the organizational structure all figured out, it did help to have a dictator.
[Epicenter] Wikipedia Founder Hit With Relationship Trouble, Allegations of ...: Whether or not he's responsible for any of the things he's been accused of, I do hope this doesn't spring back on Wikipedia and tarnish its reputation because whether or not Jimbo did such things, that has nothing to do with the fact that Wikipedia is a helpful resource and the Wikimedia Foundation honestly seeks to help educate people around the globe.
[p2pnet.net - not the lamescream media] Jimbo Wales expense problems: The couples bust-up has been making online headlines for days with, in the background, former-Wikipedia staffman Danny Wool attacking Wales over alleged expenses transgressions. However, Wools claims have now hit the mainstream.
[Silicon Alley Insider] Is Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales an Embezzler?: A short time later, in an e-mail exchange with her fellow board members, Devouard reported that she had convinced the Associated Press that "the money story was a no story." Yet she proceeded to indicate the opposite, upbraiding Wales for having asked the foundation to pay the steakhouse tab. "I find (it) tiring to see how you are constantly trying to rewrite the past," she wrote to Wales in the message, which was obtained by the AP.
[Minty Musings] Wikiality or the world according to Jimbo: But the controversies dont end there”¦ ex-Wikipedia exec Danny Wool took Jimbo to task in his blog , writing about Jimbos apparently long and lurid life of affairs. More importantly, Wool accuses Jimbo of misusing the Wikipedia .
[p2pnet news] Wikipedia to go offline: This comes in a CNET News follow-up to stories centering on the very public bust-up between Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales and his erstwhile girl-friend, Rachel Marsden; and, claims by former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool that Wales had .
[John H. Gohde - The Trolls of Wikipedia] Jimbo Wales Spending Habits Have Been Questioned: Between Wool’s statement and the response of the Wikimedia Executive Director: Wales asked the Foundation to reimburse him for a dinner for four at a Tampa, Florida steakhouse. That dinner included a $650 tab for two bottles of wine.
[Wikipedia Review: Opinions and Editorials] Turn Jimbos Scandals into Aid for Sri Lankan students: Join us in our campaign to have Rachel Marsden donate the proceeds from the ebay sale of Jimbo’s old garb to Danny’s charitable cause. if you are a Wikipedian, spread the word on your user page or elsewhere.
[The I Hate Wikipedia Blog - Criticisms and Reviews] Wikimedia, Wales and Wool: Indeed, he has consistently put the Foundation's interests ahead of his own, and has erred on the side of personally paying for his own Wikimedia-related expenditures, rather than the reverse." Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner
[Tech blog] Wikipedias Wales defends breakup, expenses: But that feeling in a fair way paled in collation to last weekend’s ugly public breakup between Marsden and Wales, who is currently going through a divorce. Besides selling more of his clothes on eBay, she published transcripts of messages in which Wales explained how he would repose on a Wikipedia committee to fix her Wikipedia entry to her liking.
[Shelliln's Weblog] Wikipedia founders private troubles go public: Looks like Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is in a little bit of trouble. according to an article on MSNBC, his fromer lover Rachel Marsden published some dirty online chats on the Web, as well as selling his clothes on E bay. He is also in a bit of trouble for asking for lavish reimbursements from the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation that runs the site. This came out in a blog entry by former Wikimedia employee Danny Wool. Currently the rest of Wikimedia is standing behind Wales. Wales has also been caught tampering his own Wikipedia entry from time to time…but who wouldn’t do that.
[.: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :.] Wikimedia executive comes to Wales defense: Wales has also come under fire recently for allegedly tampering with Wikipedia entries on behalf of an ex-girlfriend, Rachel Marsden, a former commentator for Fox News. People have claimed that Wales broke Wikipedia’s conflict of interest rules by trying to influence the site’s editing process when it came to her entry.
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