Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
To an extent this is true, but no more (or less) than saying "all volunteers are weird". And they are. There are bound to be exceptions, but I find that with almost every single volunteer there is either something mentally wrong, or there is something seriously lacking in their social life.
Even worse, some are actually librarians. You wouldn't be promoting the fallacy of normalcy, would you? Wiki-editing has a fraction of the popularity of video games, and is negligible compared to couch-potato TV watching, both of which might be considered normal; but are not to be considered as a "social life". (Actually, I've often wondered about cinema-going, sitting in the dark not talking to anyone - participatory but not actually that social.) I can remember when "doing your own thing" was rather more valued.
To pick up on Gerard's point: I have discovered that I'm no good at pub quizzes, at least those mainly based around TV presenters of programmes I don't watch. I did once use a fact from WP to impress a friend in a quiz (the Scoville scale).
Charles