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The mud, shin deep and soot gray, squelches and tugs at John Murray's work boots, holding them fast.

It's as though the earth wants to snatch something back, to exact some small payment for the black rock that miners have gouged and blasted from mineral veins half a mile beneath the surface for a century now.

Over 1,000 self-proclaimed Wikipedians from 87 countries descended on George Washington University's campus to an annual meeting on all things Wikipedia. It was as if one of the site's Talk pages — where people argue over the finer points of online articles — had come to life. Attendees in every presentation shot up their hands in the middle of speeches, eager to add their input.