Some background here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mollywhite.net&#x2F;wikimedia-timeline&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mollywhite.net&#x2F;wikimedia-timeline&#x2F;</a><p>The above conflates a lot of highly unrelated events, but it&#x27;s a cool visualization.<p>But the reality is that she lost the support of senior staff, and wasn&#x27;t able to regain it.  It&#x27;s impossible to recover from something like that, so it&#x27;s a good sign she stepped down.