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). [4]

A few of the project's participants can be, not to put a nice word on it, pretty nasty. And this is tolerated. [3]

Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.

If the project was lucky enough to have a writer or two well-informed about some specialized subject, and if their work was not degraded in quality by the majo…