Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet - The Washington Post

In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has built a system of collaboration and governance that, although hardly perfect, has been robust enough to endure these polarized times. It’s easy to make fun of Wikipedia for its incessant arguments about the nationality of Frédéric Chopin or what to call the Sea of Japan. And its priorities can seem upside down, with more attention given to “The Simpsons” than Jane Austen.

Women and minorities are underrepresented. There are cliques that can be hostile to new people interested in contributing. But fundamentally, from my perspective as an occasional Wikipedia contributor and frequent Wikipedia reader, the project gets the big questions right.