Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems

[Peter Luining]

Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and 
überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems 
with the online work.

Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very 
rare so far, although fellow co-founder Larry Sanger, who is no longer 
associated with the project, pleaded with the management to improve its 
content by befriending, and not alienating, established sources of 
expertise. (i.e., people who know what they're talking about.)

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Meanwhile, criticism from outside the Wikipedia camp has been rebuffed 
with a ferocious blend of irrationality and vigor that's almost 
unprecedented in our experience: if you thought Apple, Amiga, Mozilla or 
OS/2 fans were er, ... passionate, you haven't met a wiki-fiddler. For 
them, it's a religious crusade.

source:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/