Aaron Swartz had a great blog post about how this is just not true at http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswi

Aaron Swartz had a great blog post about how this is just not true at http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia. The core of people who incessantly edits do make a lot of edits, but they're cleaning up vandalism or bringing articles into the proper Wikipedia style, not actually writing articles and contributing new facts. If you think about it, it makes complete sense. The combined knowledge of 1,400 people just don't isn't enough to write all the articles about Magical Trevor AND Godel's Incompletenesss Theorem. A mathematician might come once to put in the bulk of the theorem, and then leave because he has better things to do, while obsessive Wikipedia janitors will edit it over and over again.