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Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).

— Larry Sanger

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I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

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Wikipedia is so ironic. We wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, but what emerged was one of the most effective organs of Establishment propaganda in history.

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A few of the project's participants can be, not to put a nice word on it, pretty nasty. And this is tolerated.

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