Jimmy Wales Resigns Chair at Wikipedia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday November 3, 2006 @07:27PM from the curious dept.

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.'"

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That's because by Anonymous Coward · 2006-11-03 20:01 · Score: 1, Insightful

it's pretty much the shittiest job on the wiki. Imagine fighting against other people's idiotic drama every single day, except that they have been given a legitimate forum to air their internet grievances. That's what the arbcom has to do.