Infrogmation

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

Globe & Mail: Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wikipedia-page-editors/

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Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online

Free of ads and profit-seeking corporate overlords, and maintained by dedicated volunteers, Wikipedia has consistently ranked as one of the top 10 most visited websites worldwide

The Globe and Mail
Jul 26 at 9:05pmWeb
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As many have noted, in many ways this used to be the usual way of the old internet, before corporate monetization and enshittification of almost everything online.

Wikipedia had a grander goal and has survived.