Stacy Schiff , a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter writing for The New Yorker , interviewed Essjay as a source for an article about Wikipedia . ( `` Know It All '' ; July 31 , 2006 ) He was suggested for this to her by a member of the Wikimedia Foundation . Stacy Schiff , a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writing for The New Yorker , interviewed Essjay as a source for an article about Wikipedia ( `` Know It All '' ; July 31 , 2006 ) after he was recommended to her by a member of the Wikimedia Foundation .