[WikiEN-l] Durova/!! matter now in newspaper.

[jayjg]

On Dec 4, 2007 6:13 AM, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I wouldn't expect that the article's going to win a Pulitzer.
> The article dramatically overstates things, but only to an extent.
> The Durova Secret List outrage is quite real-- poor Mercury got sixty
> straight oppose votes in less than six hours for reasons that had more
> to do with the secret list meta-issue than with him personally.   The
> Register article makes it look like Wikipedia is burning, when really,
> we're doing fine.
>
>
> That said, if I was the foundation PR peeps, I'd get a statement
> ready--  word on the street is that there's another story or two
> coming from higher up in the media food chain, and anything that would
> help the world understand that while this may well be a very big deal,
> it's not the biggest big deal in the world.
>
> This secret list thing feeds into a bunch of different memes the media

The "secret list" meme is fed and nurtured by drama-mongers who
incessantly scream "OMG!!! SECRET LIST!!! EVERYONE KNEW SHE WAS GOING
TO BLOCK!!!! 5 PEOPLE SUPPORTED THE BLOCK!! DUROVA IS TAKING THE FALL
FOR THEM!!!"

Wikia currently supports over 3500 mailing lists; the question is, are
those promoting the "secret list" meme deliberately malicious or
irreparably clueless?