False or unsubstantiated claims of corruption
False claim: Wikimedia holding Board Vote results is a sign of corruption
False claim: Wikimedia is corrupt because it did not originally release full records of the Board Vote. Claim was stated as follows:
The partially released results of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees "election" proves what trolls have always said: it is a front for the sysop power structure:
- withholding full Wikimedia Board of Trustees election results from the voters! apparently there will be NO release of figures (!), even on a sitewide basis, according to directives by Jimbo the GodKing of Wikimedia and Bomis
Motivation for critiqued practice
- This is not true. Imran and Danny have decided to not release full results apparently because some candidates wished they not be released. This has been critisized in the #wikipedia IRC channel recently and a plan is proposed that all results of those candidates who agree to releasing their votecounts would be released and those withholding would just look silly.
- Sorry, this was true when written, and, full disclosure is full disclosure. What were they trying to hide? Whether they succeeded in hiding it or not. It appears they were trying to hide just how many cronies could use their cronyism to score high in this "election"
Resolution to claim being false
- After taking up the issue with Danny here are the full election results http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_results --Juxo
- Claim proved false and moved to Talk:Wikimedia_corruption claims on 14:48, 19 Jun 2004 (EEST)
- Claim moved to FUCOC by and on --Juxo 18:32, 9 Sep 2004 (EEST)