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My experience as a Wikipedian:

- provide content until an admin revert said content without explanation.

- try to engage discussion with said admin and get referred to a wp policy that actually states this admin was wrong.

- point the admin to his error and engage in wikipedia conflict resolution.

- said admin sneakily changes said policy to confirm his views, and unleash a small army of followers to intervene to support him in conflict resolution and revert my edits. get banned

- circumvent ban to protest, get banned for circumventing the ban. repeat until other admins take notices and discuss my case in secret channels.

- find out that this has happened before quite a few times, escalate to head of wikipedia. get dismissed.

- do as others did before, replace a specific high profile page with your story, revert the replace. now your story is there in wikipedia history for future investigators to find.

- never contribute anything to wikipedia ever again, use wikipedia as a better than google search engine for official websites until duckduckgo.

They've been losing teens for a while now, and once you start losing teens, a so-called "social networking" website is dead, it doesn't know it yet because the agony may take a while.

Due to its unusual size for facebook it might take a longer while, but it's on the path to irrelevance that many others have walked before: friendster, myspace, msn, etc.

it's funy that the 10-13 years demographics adoption will make or kill an online website.