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A Perplexing Ethical Conundrum

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Yesterday, I posted on MoultonLava an item involving Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Coordinator, Cary Bass, who has long been Jimbo Wales' right-hand man.

Bass had briefly stepped in to deal with a issue brought to his attention by a troubled Wikipedia Admin who goes by the avatar name of FeloniousMonk. When the issue became too hot for Cary Bass to deal with, he bailed from the Brouhaha, whereupon it was taken up by the fabled and legendary Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Late Tuesday night, and into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, I exchanged E-Mail with the Founder, who was seeking to placate FeloniousMonk by persuading me to remove from Wikiversity all links to learning resources currently residing on MoultonLava.

The ethical conundrum arose because in his initial ouverture to me, Jimbo Wales wrote: "Can we speak privately? I have a quick request for you."

Within 10 minutes, I wrote back: "You can call me or Skype me," and I included my phone number and SkypeID. Jimbo decided to stick with E-Mail.

He went on to ask me if I could do him a favor and not link to my "outing" blog from the Wikiversity Ethical Management Project, "as a courtesy to others."

He said the links to my blog were causing a lot of hurt, and he didn't see any particular reason for referencing the blog. And he asked me to "voluntarily remove those links" to my blog.
http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/~bkort/MediaEthics.EthicalConundrum.html

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