Everything on Wikipedia is CC-BY-SA or free-er, and the software that runs it is GPL. If you think you can do better, feel free to try. I'm fairly certain sever

Everything on Wikipedia is CC-BY-SA or free-er, and the software that runs it is GPL. If you think you can do better, feel free to try. I'm fairly certain several people have already tried. I personally find the "hostile culture" to be not too different from a culture with high standards, and high standards are exactly why Wikipedia is popular - you see exactly the same criticisms leveled against StackOverflow and other essentially "canonical" resources on the web. I would not be surprised if anyone who cares at all about quality will get a lot of people complaining that their contributions were ignored or that it's impossible to add anything to these resources.