QUOTE(Text @ Thu 9th September 2010, 10:21am)
That means that in substance, Wikipedia has only cast a large shadow on those forgotten sites, but they're still there, just largely unpopulated.
There's a similarity with "boom towns" of the Old West. Little villages which prospered for some time as long as gold and silver were mined out of near hills. After the gold ended, the villaged ceased to exist almost immediately as everyone went away.
And of course, the longer and the more popular the village became, the more the possibilities for exploitation from big companies from the East.
Jimmy has an the interest in keeping the boom town flourishing, and the gold is being fabricated by volunteers, in a process of self-feeding...
With wikipedia it's more iron pyrites than actual gold being produced (IMG:
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