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From the Wikipedia "foundation-l" mailing list:
QUOTE("Michael Snow")
We also appointed someone to one of the vacant expertise seats appointed by the board. His name is Matt Halprin, and in brief, Matt is with the Omidyar Network and a former eBay executive who was in charge of trust and safety there. Matt has met with a number of us over the past several months, and I invited him to join us in Buenos Aires and meet the entire board. The Omidyar Network is very interested in supporting our strategy development discussions, and I look forward to having Matt's experience and insight as we continue with the process.
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That's unfortunate - Pierre Omidyar was the guy who founded eBay, and he seemed like such a nice guy... Most of his philanthropic efforts up until now have been fairly responsible, socially-speaking. The appointment of one of his people to another entity's board usually means he's about to make a big grant, if he hasn't already.
To think that he's been hoodwinked like this is very disturbing. It could even mean that someone associated with the WMF has figured out a way to spin their story so that it looks like they're doing something beneficial, to the extent that people with serious money are actually falling for it.