Jimmy Wales Faces Allegations of Corruption

eldavojohn writes "The SFGate site has up an article noting that Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is facing allegations from multiple quarters accusing him of abusing his power. Several people apparently claim he used the foundation to pay for personal expenses, including reimbursement for a $1,300 dinner for four at a Florida steakhouse. Accusations have also been made indicating that he edited the Wikipedia entry of political commentator Rachel Marsden, a woman he was seeing, at her request. In the case of that allegation, Wales replied that 'I acted completely consistently with Wikipedia policy. I did the right thing: I passed along my work to date for other editors to deal with, and I recused myself from the case.'"

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Re:Wait, THIS is corruption?

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Wrongdoing is never relative. Unless of course you are predisposed to consider it that way. I doubt anyone else would get a pass in this case.

Funny Slashdot didn't mention the "I want to fuck your brains out" part of the Mardsen thing. Anyone else and it would have been regurgitated front and center.

Uncyclopedia entry on Jimmy Wales

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This article is a filthy Image whore.
This article has been with way too many images.
This article would be right at home on the streets of Bangkok sucking someone off for $3. Hell, you may even get lucky with this article.

This article may have something to do with The lore and faerie tale of Wikiland and its noble and majestik King Jimbo I. Then again, it might not. Who knows?"

"I gave him a small penis after he reverted my entries."
~ God on Jimbo Wales

"Imagine a world where every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. I expect this to occur next year, barring unforseen -- what are you staring at, punk? You actually think you could take my idealistic ass? I'd like to see you try."
~ Jimmy Wales

"We make internet access to porn not suck"
~ Jimmy Wales on "www.Bomis.com," his adult internet search engine.

Jimbo Wales, Prince of the United States is a well-known huckster, con-man and dictator of Wikiland, who has adopted a lifestyle of libertinage, debauchery, nudism, international travel, kitten huffing and Ferrari connoisseurship by standing on the shoulders of a million nerds; although he simply describes himself as a "rockstar, but without the sex and drugs"[1]. He is a high-ranking member both of the GNAA ,NAMBLA and among the leaders of the Sicilian Mafia, and frequently trolls the satirical "encyclopedia" Wikipedia as part of his official duties. He is well known for his amusing stunts. These include editing his own biography to pretend that he actually came up with the whole idea, and accusing people of killing JFK and Gerald Ford. His account has been locked thricewise and twain for vandalism and replacing entire pages with the phrase TROLLS AER THE 13347 several hundred times. His most memorable vandalism was his repeated claim on the Wikipedia page for Uncyclopedia that Uncyclopedia was, in fact, a parody site of Wikipedia. Even though, in fact, it is the other way around, Jones imprinted some kind of malicious code on the edit page, locking the statement in place for all to see. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, John 2.0. Nothing was ever proven.

There is, of course, more.

Bye bye karma, it was nice knowin' ya!