I don't know if in 2022 it's still a thing, sure wikipedia has a crowd that might still run around removing content, but there's less to remove I feel because the mere public is not as heavily involved at wikipedia any more. Presently a new TV series on a well known network can come and go, and yet every week I check back, nothing. Once, back to the time of 2010 when this article dates, the mere public infrequent visitor still might have taken ten or twenty minutes to fire off a new topic if one didn't already exist. Judging by the people I know online presently, few spend any time "volunteering" at wikipedia to contribute, even an edit ... in fact, for the last few years in the various forums I frequent, none have admitted to putting in time there - I know because it's something common I would raise in a new thread, since I actually did spent "some time" early on at wikipedia in its early days. Yes I spent spare time including interesting scraps of information that would not be gleaned from any book that I'd run across trouble shooting and other random fortuitous events ... if it were in a book, a lot of what I submitted might have only ever been repair notes some firm was not about to share, exclusive to dealers etc. Yes, "not in a book" was a policy that flopped onto wikipedia and wow if that didn't give some little person a sense of power removing material wholesale. No doubt that the flame wars were a problem, but the "must be already in a book" policy does little to further the sum of knowledge. It just means some different people get to curate what the public should know ...

So 2022 contrasts greatly to the mid 00s, where it seemed wikipedia welcomed all people to submit, helping to really achieve something important, playing their little part to contribute and add to the sum of knowledge which may help other people or of interest to historians.