Jimmy Wales Resigns Chair at Wikipedia

user24 writes "As reported by Wikipedia's Signpost ezine, 'The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has moved forward with a step in restructuring the organization by reorganizing itself. Following a planning retreat in Frankfurt, Jimmy Wales stepped down as Chair of the board, and Florence Nibart-Devouard was chosen to replace him ... Wales, meanwhile, will continue to serve on the board and assume the honorary title of Chairman Emeritus. He will remain active in Wikimedia projects, but chose to pass on the responsibility of heading the board, due in part to his commitments to outside projects.'"

Re:They should get together with the Debian leader

[LuNa7ic]

and work on a standardization of bureaucratic nerdiness. Losers.

This coming from someone with 5481 comments on slashdot?

Where's the citation?

[badfish99]

Are we sure this happened? As far as I can see, the only evidence is a page on Wikipedia, and everyone knows how reliable that is.
</sarcasm>

Re:They should get together with the Debian leader

[ari wins]

Wikipedia just fixed the article. Turns out, Florence Nibart-Devouard was drunk and decided to post some slanderous material on Wales' personal wikipage.

Re:Obligatory simpsons quote

[FusionDragon2099]

Nelson's the one that goes "Ha ha!". Please turn in your nerd license on the way out.

Re:Kudos to Jimmy Wales

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

Showing up on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me is hardly the right thing. ;)