I wrote countless articles for them, but they didn’t give a crap. I now contribute photos to commons.
Don’t bother contributing to Wikipedia. Only people who fiddle around with changing URLs, categories and templates are appreciated. It’s not worthwhile putting in the effort.
If you want to contribute to making human knowledge available to everyone, it's the best place we have.
My personal rule: don't interact with the community, unless absolutely necessary. has served me well in the last 18 years.
You can configure Wikipedia to send you an email whenever a certain article is edited. I monitor several thousand articles that way, and remove malicious edits. Lots of editors do that, and vandalism is usually cleaned up very quickly.
I want that, when it is being said by someone who
>built up a grudge which turned into making more unhelpful edits
It sounds like if you joined any open source, open collaboration project, or volunteer organization, you'd be a huge pain to work with unless everyone agreed with you all the time.