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How do people bring themselves to care so much about editing wikipedia articles? Who on earth are these people?
by cylinder 10y ago
How do people bring themselves to care so much about editing wikipedia articles? Who on earth are these people?
- Pica_soO 10y agoYeah, enlightenment, the world would be a better place without it. For example there would be no computers, no internet and no parent comment.
- JorgeGT 10y agoIt's in human nature, to belong to a clan, and to leave a mark for future generations. Wikipedia success comes from exploiting both instincts: you belong to a great organization, you're doing a great service to humanity, you have value for the clan.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoWikipedia has an enormous audience, and its contents are widely trusted whether they should be or not. If you care about the subject matter of the article you're editing, the potential for those edits to influence millions of people is extremely valuable.
- vacri 10y agoYour handle reminds me of the word 'cutlasslessness', the state of being without a cutlass...
- eyelidlessness 10y agoI definitely do not have a cutlass.
- markdown 10y agoIf you've ever answered a question on stackexchange, you're not too different from them.