The world of Wikipedia includes 1.9 million people with registered user accounts, who together have made more than 69 million edits since July 2002 (it launched mid-January 2001). They are Wikipedians, and Simon Pulsifer, profiled in this article in Macleans is the prototype.
“It is a subculture of probably some of the world’s most nerdy people,” he surmises. “Over-educated and underemployed students or recent graduates who don’t have families and real jobs to take up much of their time, so they spend it writing encyclopedia articles.”
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