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Re:What Wikipedia Did by revolvingocelot on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:12PM (#35939013)
Agreed. The temple is built for "all of us", in as much as any public edifice is, but those who maintain it don't think of the readers' whims. The maintainers are too busy with the all-consuming, gradually-complexifying task of building the temple, improving the temple, improving those who improve the temple.

This protects both the temple itself from dabblers, but also the temple's caretakers from those who could be considered to care too little. The best example of this quasi-religious calling, IMO, has got to be the Star Trek Into Darkness thing [0][1], temple-politics which has earned a place in the temple itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Star_Trek_Into_Darkn...

[1] https://xkcd.com/1167/

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