[TeMPOraL]

I disagree, though we may be living in different Internets :). At least for me, Wikipedia was an obvious continuation of everything I saw on-line when I was growing up.

Wikipedia works like every reasonable Internet community - read: just fine as long as someone is not trying to make money on it, and as long as those attempts are actively and ruthlessly punished. For some the default picture of Internet is comments under a news article on some big portal. For me, the default picture of the Internet is Hacker News.