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Corruption allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Jimbo Wales (sfgate.com)
6 points by nickb on March 6, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Not a big fan of Wales but I really hate this kind of article. This is the tech industry not politics. If it's shown he did something wrong then we should all hear about it, but there's no substance to these allegations yet. It's wrong that his reputation is being smeared by innuendo.


Agreed. I read through the entire thing expecting to eventually see some claim that was worth reporting, and yet it all seems like it could be summed up as: Wikipedia Founder took some people to an expensive dinner (shocking!), has very unpleasant ex-girlfriend.




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