Wholeheartedly agree. Every now and then I will naively take on some kind of difficult programming challenge requiring lots of hacks and out of the box thinkin

Wholeheartedly agree. Every now and then I will naively take on some kind of difficult programming challenge requiring lots of hacks and out of the box thinking. These can be quite fun projects, and very rewarding if you make it to the end. But sometimes, as you work your way through the project, and the number of exceptions and edge cases grows, you have to step back and ask yourself is it really worth it? Sunk cost fallacy usually kicks in and you hate yourself for a couple of days, but ultimately you realise it was the right decision. "They were too occupied thinking about how they could do it, that nobody stopped to ask whether they should." I don't know what drives Wikipedia contributors to do what they do, but I imagine there would be a large number of them who would want to go out and be the first to write a summary and select/upload a picture for as many articles as they possibly could. If the motivation simply isn't there - gamify it somehow.