...what actually spurred my last paragraph was this (http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/90659.html): the latest apocalyptic final war of all against all that has divided the Wikipedia community against itself, or, at least, it really got a few people upset. Apparently this is a fight over somebody's admin status that is delayed fallout from a previous flamewar involving userboxes mentioning pedophilia, or something like that.

I'm sure it's all extremely upsetting and everyone involved has genuine concerns, but I'd guess that the vast majority of people who have written a long article for Wikipedia would have absolutely no idea what these people are going on about.