Wiki Structure Philosophy
<p class="default">07:52 PM, July 19, 2007
 
Jimmy: fewer than 1% of all users do half the total edits;
they add up to a few hundred committed volunteers like himself
 
Contrast that with the joyful reaction of Wikipedia's detractors to Brian Chase, the dodgy biographer (whose article was literally one in a million). Somebody who reads Wikipedia is ?rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom,? says Mr McHenry, Britannica's former editor. ?It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.? One wonders whether people like Mr McHenry would prefer there to be no public lavatories at all.
That is from the Economist article on Wiki in April 2006.</p>