• VentureBeat, Monday, May 17, 2010 2 PM

Late last week, Fox News reported that Wikipedia cofounder and board member Jimmy Wales gave up his administrative privileges on the "crowdsourced" site following a community backlash against his removal of thousands of images deemed pornographic by Fox last month. Now, Wales is telling Venture Beat that the change to his editorial status was "a purely technical matter," and insists, "I am not stepping down or pulling back from anything."

In April, Fox reported that Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger, who left the project in 2002, had sent a letter to the FBI specifying his concerns that at least two categories of the Wikimedia Commons archive contained dozens of images of child sexual abuse. Wikimedia Commons is used to host images and videos displayed on Wikipedia. "There's currently no way to selectively filter the Wikimedia Commons content," Sanger reportedly told Venture Beat via email.

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