Ouch! It’s Jimmy Wales Pile-on Week (Year)

It sucks to be Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.

First there was the very public break-up with a lover. Now rumors of sloppy handling of his personal expenses at Wikimedia.

Take two “no comments” and call me in the morning?

His official statement would normally be a good deflection of comments in the media:

“The board, the current executive director, the previous executive director, and independent auditors have reviewed our books and publicly agree that all of my expenses were appropriate and fully accounted for.”

But in the chatty, interconnected world of a web celebrity, there seems to be no such thing as a story that runs out of steam.