[Foundation-l] Foundation Discretion Regarding Personnel

Sat Dec 15 14:41:06 UTC 2007

On 15/12/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> So the Wikinews volunteers are better at legal research than the WMF
> General Counsel? Great...

To an extent they got lucky. The information they found was in this
case fairly available. There are various ways it could have been
rather less easy to find. Their search count not really be considerd a
complete criminal background check. But yes wikimedians do tend to
acquire pretty good searching skills after a while.

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geni