Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

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

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

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