The Law of the Wiki
I know, apoogies for spamming the friends page after no posts for ages, but this is to good to miss. Via
Here, then, is what I’ll propose as the Law of the Wiki: Output quality declines as the number of contributors increases. Making matters worse, the best contributors will tend to become more and more alienated as they watch their work get mucked up by the knuckleheads, and they’ll eventually stop contributing altogether, leading to a further fall in quality.
So very true, the comments on the post are illuminating at times as well.