I know some people have some concerns with Jimmy Wales, but he's done a good job as far as I can tell, and none of the complaints about him really seem that imp

I know some people have some concerns with Jimmy Wales, but he's done a good job as far as I can tell, and none of the complaints about him really seem that important. For example, so what if he claims to be the "sole founder"; only he and Sanger know that first hand, but it's not necessarily an important issue anyway. So what if he tried to edit his own biography; it's not like he thought people wouldn't notice, so he must have assumed it wasn't a big deal. So what if he slept with somebody who has an article on Wikipedia; that was practically inevitable. There just don't seem to be any really solid examples that show that Jimbo actually is "shady". The writing style on the sight you linked me to is, to say the least, highly "editorialized". The site whines about a bunch of things which one could legitimately assume were done in good faith. In browsing through it, whatever is actually so bad about Wikipedia certainly doesn't pop out at you; maybe I could find it if I looked hard enough. My point here is that the authors of that site could do a much better job of pointing out problems with Wikipedia if they focus on the really big/obvious problems rather than whining about things that don't matter or aren't necessarily unethical. I think your first idea is, potentially, a great idea, but I'm not enough of a wikipedia insider to say. I don't agree with "expert certification," because how do you determine who the experts are? Certainly "experts" disagree on lots of things. And the people who hate wikipedia would claim that expert selection is biased (as well as people who don't hate wikipedia but actually think it is biased). Can't disagree with the statement that rules should be enforced. You have a lot of complaints and they are probably valid to a certain degree, but as a casual wikipedia user who sometimes edits articles, I have had an almost flawless experience. I don't run into these issues, personally.