True, true.

Another benefit of a community of readers and editors is that horrible grammatical errors can get smoothed out quicker.

Of course, the wikipedians also do things like delete notes about RMS’ growing-plants-phobia, leaving snotty comments that it’s defacement. No, it’s fact. It’s just fact that doesn’t particularly make him look good.

(Eric Burns at websnark.com notes the problems of folks editing for ’significance’ in fields that they don’t actually know much about - in his case, webcomics.)