There are many wiki's for specific things. For example there's a wiki for the Gephi visualization program that we used. I used this when trying to better understand the different layouts available in the program.
One that has been very helpful for me was the Skyrim wiki for the popular game The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim which was released this past fall. The game is set in a fantasy universe that is a cross between Norse folklore and Middle Earth from the Lord of the Rings. The game has a main quest line that is pretty easy to follow, but there are many mini side quests that add up to provide several hundred hours of gameplay. The Skryim wiki has walkthrough guides for every quest in the game, guides on how to level your character, different character builds etc.
In one of our classes we discussed what makes people want to contribute to something like this. In the case of Skyrim, the guide was up at the time the game was launched, so people had quickly put together a comprehensive guide to the entire game. There are now over 15,000 pages in this wiki. I think that one of the benefits of adding your experience to the wiki is that you would hope someone else will add what they had gone through. For example, if there are several different ways to beat a certain quest, maybe you will only find one and someone else will post another way to do it. Another reason I believe is that people genuinely want to help others get through the game. There are a lot of people who are serious gamers and want to get a 100% completion of the game, which would take hundreds of hours, even with the help of the wiki.
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