Jimmy Wales Resigns Chair at Wikipedia 71
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.'"
They should get together with the Debian leaders (Score:2)
Losers.
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Nice change (Score:2)
Hopefully the new chairperson will help look for ways for Wikip
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There's been a lot if idle speculation floating around about deals in the offing related to Wikipedia. Let me be clear - there is no such deal. There never was any such deal.
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Do you really have the audacity to think you would know if there was a such deal?
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Just because he's a Wikipedia admin, and the one who schedules features articles for the front page, doesn't mean he'd know anything about a $100 million dollar deal between Wikimedia and AOL, before it is made public.
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If you were using Firefox 2, that word would have been underlined in red when you typed it in, and you might have avoided making such a humorous and ironic error while typing.
In short, LOL@U.
Why is this on slashdot? (Score:2, Informative)
The Wikimedia board only meets a couple of times a year... the chair hardly does any work. The reason for the change is that Florence whines a lot (take a look at the video from Wikimania 2006 for her childish behavior during the public board panel) at giving her a better title might just shut her up.
In any case, Wales is still a board member.. This wasn't a change of consequence to anyone outside the board. Not news.. and it doesn't matter.
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Jimmy did and does a great job. If it were me he should (and in him the Wikimedia Foundation) get a Nobel peace price. However, the changes under way in the
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Slashdot accepts story submissions from the public, there are lots and lots of Wikipedians who submit stories to Slashdot, and it only takes one moderator to approve a story.
Or were you asking why this should be on Slashdot?
There is a pending resignation from one of the 5 board members, Tim Shell. According to the bylaws he is to be repla
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases
`` Jimmy Wales said: "I nominated Florence to be the Chair of the Foundation in recognition of her outstanding service for the past few years and her unsurpassed passion for our goals. Having such a trusted community representative elected as our new chair demonstrates the growth and strength of our organization." ''
Thank You (Score:1)
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Wikipedia had brought a lot of knowledge readily accessible to myself and I'm sure a ton of other folks. It's one of the rare things that make you think "Thank you, Internet."
Or thank you, Humanity. Glad we can do something else than just kill each other and the planet.
Jimbo Wales and Wikipedia (Score:2)
I met Jimbo Wales when he had visited Bangalore recently and he struck me as a very down to earth person. In his own words, "I don't do much for wikipedia. I travel to places and wikipedia makes it into the local papers". I suspect he was oversimplifying his role in wikipedia, but that is the true success of of a founder - to create a self-sutaining system which doesn't need him to stay alive.
I assume he'll be more involved in Wikia [wikia.com], which though probably similar to wikipedia, can probably exist orthog
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That's because (Score:1, Insightful)
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As that article states, kinda stinks of interference. Well, not stinks, but is.
My personal favourite, after announcing who two people are and that you should "give them some of your votes" while others have "shown themselves to be untrustworthy", he then proclaims:
Thanks, Jimmy! (Score:1)
The only word I saw in that title was chair (Score:3)
"Oh God, what's Ballmer done this time?"
Misread the title the first time (Score:1)
I was expecting to see some kind of new modern chair design (which seemed a little odd given the context)...
ok, you can mod me down now....
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The following text is from Polar Star, by Martin Cruz Smith.
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What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to new
retreat? (Score:2)
OK, Frankfurt isn't exactly a luxurious destination- but why are Wikipedia people going on "retreats", and who is footing the bill? And I don't mean just airfare or accomodations...I mean meeting facilities, dinners, etc...
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Donations and partnerships I'd imagine. If you go to their budget page there's a more detailed analysis, but I'm a little too tired and apathetic to look through all of it. It's not very uncommon though, especially in a situation like this where you have an academic project that's massi
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Where's the citation? (Score:5, Funny)
</sarcasm>
OT: Slashdot Moderation System Problem? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Sorry for the OT post...
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Retirement (Score:2)
Obligatory simpsons quote (Score:1)
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My Heart Sank (Score:1)
Disclaimer- I only read the headline (Score:2)
Update to Wikipedia entry covers this in detail (Score:2)
In [[November]] [[2006]], Jimbo was voted from the board by a cabal of giant [[badgers]] and [[sockpuppets]] to be replaced by the leader of the [[Transformers]]. His statement[1] to the new board consisted of threats to [[see them all in court| wikilaywer]] them out of [[existence]]. Jimbo then flounced out of the room in his customary [[pink]] [[tutu]] before planting a [[French Kiss]] on the mouth of [[Ted Haggard]]. Haggard then announced that he had only received a [[massage]] from the [
Not surprised... (Score:2)
Kudos to Jimmy Wales (Score:2)
(* Those are Jimmy's criticisms, not mine: He's judges it more harshly than I do.)
Thank you Jimmy Wales. Whatever its flaw
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It's not so much that he resigned as that he chose to support someone else rather than have the others vote whether or not to retain him. Under the Wikimedia bylaws the Chair is elected for a one year term.
Had Wales not decided to support someone other than himself, I doubt it would have been a unanimous vote.
Nope (Score:1, Troll)
http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Board_G
if he truly goes, then Wikipedia truly benefits but he wont give up the platform tht elevated him from soft porn purveyor to respected internet mind.
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Will the "Everywhere Girl" get restored (Score:2)
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First, why would we want to restore a one-word article [wikipedia.org]?
Second, it's quicker [wikipedia.org] to start the article yourself [wikipedia.org] than to request undeletion [wikipedia.org], buddy.
Third, that's an interesting question! When you feel something needs clarity, please feel free to look it up on a variety of sources before asking about whatever questions you feel need to be answered. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit any article by simply following the Edit this page [wikipedia.org]
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Really? Then it should show up in a deletion log somewhere. As far as I can tell that article was only deleted once.
To me this sounds like an internet meme or pop-culture article; if so then it sounds like it relied on primary sources and was thus Original Research. My advice is that you should wait until Wikipedia:Attribution [wikipedia.org] gets accepted as a guideline; now for an important caveat: although it