Ho hum, for all Erik's protestations, this could hardly have been a surprise that it would blow up one day; Mr Sanger has only really picked up on something that has been circling for a while, and combined two stories we have been kicking around for a long time - he just had the nerve to call in the FBI and make a story out of it. Erik didn't even have the sense to quietly expire the old blog entries, which says something about his lack of judgement, even if he does stand by his claim that he has been mis-interpreted.
I wonder what Sue (I pick her as I vaguely assume she was sane before she joined Wikipedia) really makes of it: we have dodgy porn site and InterWeb sex practitioner and also a public advocate of child sexual freedom representing WMF. As a member of the public, am I really going to have confidence that the WMF is properly constituted to take well-judged decisions on the proper management of Wikipedia? Of course, what makes it worse is that it is clear that there is a long track record of deliberately refusing to deal with the problem - Erik of course being instrumental in blocking flagged revisions; so they can't exactly claim they have not had time to resolve the problem,or are in any way unaware.
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