I have been permanently blocked from editing Wikipedia, the website I named and led in 2001. Yes, really. I can hear you asking, “How? What’s going on over there?” The incident reveals something truly damning about “the encyclopedia that anybody can edit.” The irony is that not even a co-founder can edit it if he is attempting to implement his program of reform.

The bizarre event has captured the attention of the global internet, which has been surprised to learn that a relatively small clique of anonymous “administrators” apparently wields such irresistible authority that a founder of the site could be abused for three days and then banned, as so many thousands had been before.