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GlassBeadGame	Sun 30th August 2009, 4:43am Post #41
Dharma Bum Group: Contributors Posts: 7,919 Joined: Sat 17th Feb 2007, 12:55am From: My name it means nothing. My age it means less. The country I come from is called the Mid-West. Member No.: 981	QUOTE(Somey @ Sat 29th August 2009, 9:53pm) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=304495270 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=289928161 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=282812790 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=269639351 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=241183460 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=244149975 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=244150308 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=248848644 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=249188488 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=263157532 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=266004442 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=266004575 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=266004834 Priceless.

tarantino	Sun 30th August 2009, 5:07am Post #42
the Dude abides Group: Regulars Posts: 1,439 Joined: Mon 30th Jul 2007, 11:41pm Member No.: 2,143	QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 30th August 2009, 3:53am) Obviously $2 million is chicken feed to someone who's worth as much as Omidyar ... Yeah, and also compared to the $12.5 million that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundations just gave to the Encyclopedia of Life, a collaborative project that's goal is to describe all known species. This post has been edited by tarantino: Sun 30th August 2009, 5:09am

Nerd	Sun 30th August 2009, 1:20pm Post #43
Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 672 Joined: Sat 30th May 2009, 7:52pm From: Cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 11,945	QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 30th August 2009, 4:53am) Obviously $2 million is chicken feed to someone who's worth as much as Omidyar, but still, for that much money you'd think they could at least protect his BLP article... That would cause an uproar.

thekohser	Mon 31st August 2009, 7:15pm Post #44
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	Akahele: Omidyar venturing out -- by Gregory Kohs If you publicly announce (on the same day) a $2 million grant and the award of a board of trustees seat, people will assume that the seat was “bought” by the money-granting organization. No matter how well (or how poorly) you communicate the transaction, there will be skeptics. Gregory Kohs examines how the Omidyar Network obtained a seat on the Wikimedia Foundation board.

Milton Roe	Mon 31st August 2009, 9:26pm Post #45
Known alias of J. Random Troll Group: Regulars Posts: 10,209 Joined: Thu 28th Feb 2008, 1:03am Member No.: 5,156 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(Nerd @ Sun 30th August 2009, 6:20am) QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 30th August 2009, 4:53am) Obviously $2 million is chicken feed to someone who's worth as much as Omidyar, but still, for that much money you'd think they could at least protect his BLP article... That would cause an uproar. It will cause an uproar, but WMF does not care. Do you think they care that Jimbo's BLP is buffed and polished and Doran's is missing? No. They label this as a "privacy" issue, as though didn't cover a whole multitude of sins. Everybody has privacy. And if yours is protected better than somebody else's, it means you can get away with just about anything more easily. Nobody will be able to add anything false and scandalous to Omidyar's BLP, for quite some time. Depend on it.

GlassBeadGame	Mon 31st August 2009, 9:46pm Post #46
Dharma Bum Group: Contributors Posts: 7,919 Joined: Sat 17th Feb 2007, 12:55am From: My name it means nothing. My age it means less. The country I come from is called the Mid-West. Member No.: 981	Wikipedia acting in a socially responsible maneer, as opposed to relying on immunity and the free content that anyone, regardless of motive or quality provides, will take significant resources. A broke WMF will always be an irresponsible entity. A WMF that relies exclusively on individual donations from a techie libertarian base will always be irresponsible. It will especially take administrative capacity and staff to assure editorial standards and not just some invisible hand nonsense. Omidyar beleives he has something to offer in these areas. I think he is laboring under many false assumptions based on "market fetish" type of economics. But I'm not saying that market devices have nothing to offer. I hope that Omidyar makes them take a hard look at developing responsibility and if market devices don't provide the answers I hope he will be pragmatic enough to look at other approaches too. In any event financial resources provided by givers invested in the reputation of the organization, not a bunch of nameless small givers, will be needed to even begin down the path toward responsibility.

dtobias	Mon 31st August 2009, 10:31pm Post #47
Obsessive trolling idiot [per JzG] Group: Regulars Posts: 2,213 Joined: Sun 11th Feb 2007, 2:45pm From: Boca Raton, FL, USA Member No.: 962 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Tue 25th August 2009, 2:06pm) might bring libertarian ethos with them. ...and you wouldn't want something so unspeakably horrible! Perish the thought!

thekohser	Fri 11th September 2009, 1:38pm Post #48
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	It seems that one Austrian is not willing to perceive Omidyar Network in the light that Omidyar would wish him to perceive them.

thekohser	Mon 28th December 2009, 7:41pm Post #49
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	One thing is clear... $2 million buys Halprin unanimous support for an additional year on the Board.

CharlotteWebb	Mon 28th December 2009, 8:24pm Post #50
Postmaster General Group: Regulars Posts: 2,740 Joined: Mon 18th Jun 2007, 2:09am Member No.: 1,727 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 28th December 2009, 7:41pm) One thing is clear... $2 million buys Halprin unanimous support for an additional year on the Board. Things could be worse. See, I clicked on that and immediately confused Matt Halprin with Mark Helprin. Thus began 30 seconds of explosive brainfuck.

thekohser	Mon 27th June 2011, 6:35pm Post #51
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	I don't know how we missed this big employment shift (since his every move is a generator of headline news), but apparently since October 2010, Matt Halprin is no longer with: Goodmail Systems (board) Sunlight Foundation (board) DonorsChoose.org (board) Omidyar Network (partner) Looks like he's given all of those up to go take up the role of EVP, Strategy & Corporate Development, for Ning. A year ago, Ning was about the 120th most popular website, and now it's about 270th. Is that a good move or a bad move for Mr. Halprin? He's sticking it out on the Wikimedia Foundation board, for some reason.

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