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I have always been amazed by how Wikipedia resists, in general, so well to coordinated, long-term vandalism while keeping essentially any IP able to edit most voices without login, a trust/feedback system or such. I guesss the secret is in its very active moderator community, which is often not seen?

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I was heavily involved with Wikipedia during the mid-2000s. The truth is, it was a very toxic community back then. (I have no idea if it's better now.) However, the product itself was (and is) quite good. Even for all the nonsense, it's still a marvel how high the quality of most of the articles is.

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