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How Many Folk Read Worldbuilding Wikis/Repositories?

I'm essentially building my current worldbuilding project for my own amusement, with no novel or TTRPG campaign attached to it. I did start it with the idea of a story, but that's not likely to happen.

I think the furthest it will get is a wiki, if I can get organised enough for that. Then it struck me - a lot of the posts on here ask for examples/ideas which are given, and then don't seem to be followed up on in any meaningful way (look at the various "tell me your X" type posts, and see how few even get an upvote). Am I just missing a silent audience here who does consume purely descriptive worldbuilding content, or are most worldbuilds just not read when they're in descriptive form?

Note that I don't mean wikis for established alternative world franchises; I mean worldbuilding projects that exist purely as wikis or online databases, and nothing else. No links to novels or media of any sort.

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