Sadly, this is the reality for many. We do live in a world with very conditional feelings and acceptance. We don’t celebrate a human being for their personal development or creativity (especially creativity that is not “useful”), but for their explicit or implicit resume.
This is because, so far, your email list has been the only decentralized marketing asset you can truly own and “take with you”; you can’t be de-platformed or cancelled from your own list. (Something that even the leader of the free world has recently discovered).
Wikipedia may not be actively throwing up roadblocks to participation, but it’s “also OK with not everyone being an editor — the way a Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey would like all seven billion people in the world to be users of their platforms