Social feedback, status, and other community dynamics encourage editors to keep creating content. Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can show their expertise in a topic by maintaining comprehensively written pages, and people within the community will thank and appreciate them. This provides status. They can make edits to correct others, which offers another form of status and satisfaction. There’s teamwork and a feeling of camaraderie, which create bonds that retain users over months and years. Steven Pruitt, the wildly prolific Wikipedian, might have just a normal job during the day, but
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