Wikipedia was one of the crowning achievements of the internet before said culture took over, and significantly such culture formed as a sort of symbiote and pa

Wikipedia was one of the crowning achievements of the internet before said culture took over, and significantly such culture formed as a sort of symbiote and parasite to it's success. What made Wikipedia successful was that it was free in a time that people were more used to paying for that kind of information, and that it was open in the sense that anyone could contribute when many places were significantly gatekept. It has now evolved it's own form of said gatekeeping, not because such is necessary for Wikipedia to be successful, but to harvest the residual success of that open system for the benefit of the parasites.