[Wikipedia-l] In a massive, and often anonymous context, how do we know each other?

[Joseph Reagle]

Hello, I have a question about your article that appeared in Wired. One of 
my difficulties within the Wikipedia community, or, say for example, this 
e-mail list, is the large number of people one is likely to come across. It 
can be difficult to keep track of everyone, particularly in the context of 
editing a diverse set of web pages So, I was wondering how do people come 
to know of each other? In particular, for your article, how did you select 
the folks you did? Asked Jimbo? Looked at the top contributors? 

Thanks!