Wikipedia was founded on an idealistic mission to provide all the world’s information for free—and to do so democratically. Anonymous editors who are supposed to be committed to the truth instead edit articles to suit their ideological priors. —The EditorsI launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001, alongside Jimmy Wales, then the CEO of dot-com company Bomis. It was designed as a freewheeling public successor to the peer-reviewed Nupedia, which we’d founded the year prior. The following nine theses are my Hail Mary proposal to reform Wikipedia.