Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

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

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.