{"id":96,"date":"2008-03-04T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-03-04T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:42:49","slug":"wiki-wiki-wiki-tsk-tsk-tsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/04\/wiki-wiki-wiki-tsk-tsk-tsk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiki Wiki Wiki tsk tsk tsk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/business\/2008\/03\/scandal-in-wiki.html\" target=\"_blank\">WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"articlehed\">Wikipedia Founder Hit With Relationship Trouble, Allegations of Excessive Spending<\/h1>\n<p class=\"date_time\"> \t\t<span style=\"margin-right: 20px\"><span id=\"contributor\" class=\"c cs\">By Megan McCarthy<\/span> <\/span><a href=\"mailto:megan_mccarthy@wired.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/images\/icon_email.gif\" alt=\"Email\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"margin-right: 20px\">\u00a0\u00a0 March 03, 2008 <\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/business\/people\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"line-height: 13px; color: #007ca5\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/03\/03\/jimbowales.jpg\" title=\"Jimbowales\" alt=\"Jimbowales\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right\" border=\"0\" \/> Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn&#8217;t have such a good weekend. First the blogosphere and then Wikipedia itself lit up with news of his messy breakup with controversial Canadian TV pundit Rachel Marsden. Now, accusations are flying that Wales has been living the high life on the expense account of the nonprofit foundation he created.<br \/>\nOn Friday, reports surfaced that the married-but-divorcing Internet icon carried on a clandestine affair with Marsden.  Evidence of the affair included <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/362564\/transcripts-of-wikipedia-founders-sex-chats\" title=\"Bad wiki! Bad!!\" target=\"_blank\">lurid IM transcripts<\/a>, which appeared on Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag. On Saturday, Wales posted a statement on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales\/Statement%2C_March_1st%2C_2008\" title=\"funds slush and other non-profitous treats\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia Foundations website<\/a> (which he later moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jimmywales.com\/index.php\/statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">his personal site<\/a>) denying that his actions went against Wikimedia Foundation&#8217;s policies, and stating that the affair had ended. Marsden responded by listing the clothes that he left at her house <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Wikipedias-Jimmy-Jimbo-Wales-Sweater-left-ex-g-fs_W0QQitemZ290211080891QQihZ019QQcategoryZ2312QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\" title=\"Ballsy! as they say in Canuck\" target=\"_blank\">up for auction on eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/business\/2008\/03\/scandal-in-wiki.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED Wikipedia Founder Hit With Relationship Trouble, Allegations of Excessive Spending By Megan McCarthy \u00a0\u00a0 March 03, 2008 Categories: People Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn&#8217;t have such a good weekend. First the blogosphere and then Wikipedia itself lit up with news of his messy breakup with controversial Canadian TV pundit Rachel Marsden. Now, accusations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}