The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.