WTF Wiki-guys?

I had no idea that Wikipedians were such freaks. To be honest, until about a week ago, I had no idea there was such a thing as Wikipedians. I'm currently researching an article about Wikipedia, specifically the people who spend hours upon hours every week writing, editing, correcting and fixing the articles that appear on it... for no pay mind you. There's apparently a whole subculture of these people who do this simply for the sheer joy of contributing to a collective mass of knowledge. And a lot of them apparently use the site the way the rest of us use MySpace. They have profiles with long About Me sections, they incorporate sometimes dozens of internet memes, they have running dialogues with other users similar to the comments section of MySpace.

Honestly, rather than horrifying me, the whole idea intrigued the hell out of me which is why I decided to write about it. But I swear to you, with exactly one exception, every single Wikipedia user who has contacted me about this article has been A FREAK! Either they want me to expose some kind of conspiracy theory they've formulated (which incidentally has nothing to do with the site itself) or else they're just all around suspicious of why I'm asking them these weird questions, like they think I'm going to expose them to... whoever. One particular teenager who I just got an email from two days ago has already emailed me back asking essentially why the article isn't published yet!

I really don't get it guys. I really want to be on your side here, but it seems as though the worst among you is representing the whole body here. If anybody is interested in being a part of this article, e-mail me through this site and tell me about your experiences with Wikipedia and we'll go from there. But please, for the love of god, don't make me hate the whole lot of you.