Wikimedia’s newest board appointment steps down amid editor hostility

Board of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2015, at an event in Mexico City. (credit: Pierre-Selim Huard)

The newest addition to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Tesla VP of Human Resources Arnnon Geshuri, has stepped down just a few weeks after he was appointed.

Geshuri's appointment was immediately controversial with editors of the site. The controversy grew this weekend when Ashley Van Haeften, who goes by the username Fae on Wikipedia, initiated a non-binding "vote of no confidence" asking the board to remove Geshuri. The vote was ultimately 290-22 in favor of Geshuri's removal.

Geshuri's decision was announced in an e-mail message written by current board Chair Patricio Lorente and Vice-chair Alice Wiegand. The message reads:

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