You could ask that question to just about every person who submits a link to HN. Why do Wikipedia article submissions attract these comments? There are nearly 4

You could ask that question to just about every person who submits a link to HN. Why do Wikipedia article submissions attract these comments? There are nearly 4 million articles in the English namespace alone. Is it not reasonable that some of them may occasionally pique a person's interest and make them want to spark some commentary around the topic? I've done it. To add a little to the discussion: Yihong Ding wrote an interesting article titled "The Curse of Knowledge and the Semantic Web" in 2007 for my (now very much on-hiatus) blog Semantic Focus: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/the-curse-of-knowledge-and-the-semantic-web/ http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/the-curse-of-k...