One thing I have learned while studying the writing business, anything that has “wiki” means it is written by volunteer writers. In my mind wiki is like the twilight zone, It just doesn’t add up. The facts are always 95% of the time correct and the articles are always helpful, not what I expect from volunteer writers. Where do all of these “volunteers” come from? There is nothing I would love more than to spend all my time helping others but if I do that my lights get shut off, I lose my hot water and the kids and I starve to death. Nothing cost nothing and nobody does something for nothing. This is a philosophy taught to kids when they are young. In america we have adopted and accepted the "greed is good" philosophy. But in the wiki world its flip flopped and all of a sudden you have people coming out of the woodwork to write for nothing with out any form of compensation, it's the twilight zone. What am I missing?
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