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 ==board status==
-It was founded by James 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 peopel to depart the project.
+It was founded by James 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 peopel to depart the project.
 ==funding==