QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Mon 3rd May 2010, 2:17pm)
Of course there is another path. A critic can be indifferent to the survival of Wikipedia altogether. He can uphold external expectations, standards and practices. Measure Wikipedia against these and let Wikipedia continued existence depend on its ability to make a satisfactory adjustment to external realities, like every other website, charity or entity of any kind.
Somebody (I forget who) once said "A reasonable man adjusts to the outside world. An unreasonable man tries to get the outside world to adjust to him. All progress is due to unreasonable men."