Just what is a "reasonable" level of
quality?
That depends on the person and their purpose in looking up the
information.
I don't understand this answer.
Someone just satisfying idle curiosity is going to require a lower
level of quality than someone doing research for their doctoral
thesis. The level of quality of Wikipedia at the moment is somewhere
between the two.
And, the quality of an end
result is very much tied to how it got there.
Of course, but does a "non-cultist" approach actually produce better
content than a "cultist" one? I suspect it's just a matter of making
the writers happier, which isn't a bad thing, but doesn't actually
help attract readers.
This one I understand quite well. It explains the present state, focus and
direction of (at least) the English Wikipedia Project. And what is next, a
push to attract advertisers?
What does advertising have to do with anything we're discussing in this thread?
I'm not talking about ideologies, I'm talking about whether or not the
proposed project will actually work. It's a brilliant idea from an
ideological standpoint and I agree with the values it represents, but
if it isn't actually going to work, what's the point? For an
encyclopaedia to be successful, you need people to actually read it.