Dan Tobias wrote:
Lately there has been a whole series of controversies, scandals, and the like which have led to negative publicity for Wikipedia...
Much of what you say is true, although I'm not sure the situation is quite as dire as you paint it. (Yet.)
Certainly our reaction to the Durova affair and the Register article on it was painfully myopic and defensive. We deserved to get beaten up over that much worse than we did; I guess we got lucky. We may not be so lucky next time.