"There Is No Such Thing as a Free Fact"

"There are consequently very few restrictions on creating a page. The bar is set almost as low as it can be. You can't post an article on your grandmother's recipe for duck à l'orange. But there is an article on duck à l'orange. There are four hundred and seventy-two subway stations in New York City; each station has its own Wikipedia page. Many articles are basically vast dumping grounds of links, factoids, and data. Still, all this keeps the teachers and scholars in business, since knowledge isn't the data. It's what you do with the data." 

Louis Menand at The New Yorker connects Wikipedia with Jeopardy!