On 16 March 2016 at 12:17, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > If Jimmy is not forthcoming on the above by John Vandenberg, I suggest we > start a public vote of no confidence for him, as we did for Arnnon. It has > gone on long enough. ...
There is no excuse for a $100m/year Foundation to endorse a trustee who behaves so badly in public, and even worse in private. Nonsense puffery about "free speech", does not suddenly make it acceptable for Jimmy to gratuitously drop the f-bomb when brutally slagging off a past board member in writing. This, hand-in-hand with political distortions and what now appears a long history of blatant "untruths", makes Jimmy Wales completely inappropriate to remain a WMF trustee for the next 3 months, let alone the next 3 years. Jimmy has a great career as a pundit, and many similar media celebrities seem to be able to grow their profile and fees by behaving badly and trashing people they have chosen to dislike. Good luck to him, but let's stop promoting the myth that he in any way officially speaks for the Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia volunteers or (in his self-appointed role) Wikimedia employees. P.S. Does anyone who reads this list know /exactly/ when and where will we see the results of Jimmy Wales' interviews/workshops with WMF employees, after his recent trip to S.F. acting as the default organ of the WMF board of trustees; or should this now be forgotten like it never happened? Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
