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 ==board status==
-It was founded by [[Jimmy Wales]], on the [[Wikimedia Board of Trustee]]s as "member for life".  As this demonstrates, Wikipedia has no [[independent board]]: three of the five members have association with [[Bomis]] in the form of being employed by the corporation, ex-employee or owner.   Wikimedia supporters claim that Bomis does not control the board.  However, requests such as "Please stop it" from Wales have been cited as an excuse for some frequent contributors, e.g. [[English Wikipedia User Secretlondon]] to depart the project, and challenging Wales' [[GodKing]] status is often cited as a major reason for people to depart the project.
+It was founded by [[Jimmy Wales]], on the [[Wikimedia Board of Trustee]]s as "member for life".  As this demonstrates, [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] has no [[independent board]].  Three of the five members have association with [[Bomis]] in the form of being employed by the corporation, ex-employee or owner, and only 2 of the five current board members are elected by the community.  The other three positions are currently held by "permanent" board members.  As long as this structure remains, Wales and his close associates will maintain a permanent majority, with control over all final decisions.  [[w:Wikimedia|Wikimedia]] claims that they are in the proccess of revising this structure, and it will become more open very soon.
 ==funding==