classic jimmy wales stated we need to maintain and improve our quality standards while at the same time remaining open friendly and welcoming as a community this is a challenge wikipedia's co founder larry sanger characterizes the wikipedia community as ineffective and abusive stating that the community does not enforce its own rules effectively or consistently consequently administrators and ordinary participants alike are able essentially to act abusively with impunity which begets a never ending cycle of abuse oliver kamm of the times expressed skepticism toward wikipedia's reliance on consensus in forming its content wikipedia seeks not truth but consensus and like an interminable political meeting the end result will be dominated by the loudest and most persistent voices wisdom more like dumbness of the crowds oliver kamm times online archive version author s own copy the complaints related to the community include the effects of users' anonymity the attitudes towards newcomers the abuse of privileges by administrators biases in the social structure of the community in particular gender bias and lack of female contributors sounds like they are talking about this article good thing some of us are loud and persistent in our calls for neutrality and balance