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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
According to sociologists Jonathan and Stephen Cole, almost all of the scientific papers that are cited most frequently and considered most significant are written by members of a handful of leading departments, while the vast accumulation of other published articles have little or no influence on the progress of the field.
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
The website may be free of advertisements, but that hasn't stopped entities from trying to exercise influence. Spammers, public relations companies, and those who can gain from crafting a public perception have turned their sights to Wikipedia. Thomas Friedman noted in his book: "it is not an accident that IBM today has a senior staffer who polices... See more
Andrew Lih • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
90% of the users are “lurkers” who never contribute.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
If you consume any content on the Internet, you’re mostly consuming content created by people who for some reason spend most of their time and energy creating content on the Internet. And those people clearly differ from the general population in important ways.11