This is really disingenuous in practice, though. If public wikis were really a matter of just anyone contributing any edits they want, then it would just be ut

This is really disingenuous in practice, though. If public wikis were really a matter of just anyone contributing any edits they want, then it would just be utter chaos. The entire concept would collapse, under a barrage of bad faith trolling or else good-faith-but-wildly-contradictory edits. Just as the utopian ideals of open source source generally work only when there is a corporation or foundation funding it, wikis only work when there is a power and control hierarchy. A "priestly caste" emerges, that uses wiki-lawyering and brute force determination to consolidate power and enforce a specific vision for any page. In other words, contributing to Wikipedia or something like it is such a godforsaken task post-2010, that only the most manically obsessed and dedicated would even try. Some might argue that this is a feature not a bug, I don't know. But it is absolutely valid to criticize a wiki page, without necessarily going to war to get it changed.