Here is the main prepared message which Jimbo Wales brought to the Wikiversity IRC channel earlier today:
QUOTE(Jimbo Wales in Wikiversity-en IRC Channel @ Sept. 15th, 2008)
(02:37:04 PM EDT) jwales: The main message I wanted to bring here today is that I do not wish to have any special role in the Wikiversity community going forward. I am happy to assist with advice based on my experience, which you are free to ignore, but I am also happy to give moral and political (with the Foundation) support for an effort to clarify policy in Wikiversity to make it easier to get rid of trolls.
I interpret that to mean he is standing down from his
recent ill-advised contributions to the project:
The trolls he is referring to are Centaur of attention, Salmon of Doubt, and KillerChihuahua.