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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
When Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales, an entrepreneur who cut his teeth linking to internet porn in the 90s, its stated objective was to "compile the sum of all human knowledge" and make it freely available to the world. Sixteen years later, the free encyclopedia and fifth most popular website in the world is well on its way to this goal. Today, Wikipedia is home to 43 million articles in 285 languages and all of these articles are written and edited by an autonomous group of international volunteers.
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A very clever 1% i guess. The other 99% of us will just read and buy what we read!
The 90/9/1 rule.