How Wikipedia's founder avoids scandal

TechCrunch looks at the Wikimedia Foundation's audited financials & raises a question about the charity's possible entanglement with related for-profit Wikia. Founder Jimmy Wales answers:

Travel expenses jumped significantly from $140k to $264k. Given that this period included time when Jimmy Wales was pitching Wikia Search around the world, some conspiracy theorists are speculatingthat travel expenses related to the for-profit Wikia (which Wales founded) were being reimbursed by Wikimedia Foundation. Wales, however, told me via email that the foundation does not reimburse him for any travel expenses at all, even for pure Wikipedia events, in order to remove any doubt about mixing funds between the entities. “I fund all that myself, out of my own pocket personally,” he said.