Whenever I start diving into theology on Wikipedia, I'm always struck by the similarity of Bible study to the effort put into Wikis about Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc.

Basically, early Christians were fanboys obsessed with the minutia and canonical stories of their favorite fantasy series published in two volumes. (Amusingly, it seems that L. Ron Hubbard noticed the same thing years ago and thought, "Hey, I can do that...")