There are two [Wikipedias]: One is the public-facing reliable-enough-on-average encyclopedia that people read every day, which makes for nice fluff pieces in the media about “these new Web thingamajigs that the kids are building, aren’t they neat?”. The other is the insular behind-the-scenes bureaucracy, which reads like an improvised performance of the collected writings of Clay Shirky.
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I think most internet debates are just funny, but the Wikipedia auditors infuriate me. (I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been an ad-supported, infinite-content fork, actually.)