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How to Bring Wikipedia to its knees

The solution would seem to be quite simple: present Wikipedians with something that cannot be neatly classified, and watch the semi-anonymous digital bloodsport ensue.

Randall Munroe, the creator of the webcomic XKCD seems to have accomplished this by coining the joke word "malamanteau", a parody of Wikipedians' never-ceasing zeal for categorizing wordplay into ever-narrower segments and assiduously incorporating those obscure linguistic distinctions into every article.

The resulting brouhaha, whether Munroe intended it or not, has laid bare the truth of essentially every charge anyone has ever laid against the "Encyclopedia that Anyone can Edit", as can plainly be seen on the resulting talk page, a hilarious swirl of earnest editors spewing the lingua franca of Wikipedia's bureaucracy and "deletionists" and "inclusionists" bickering over the linguistic and encyclopedic merit of the newly-coined word.

Nice work, Mr. Monroe, you've successfully pulled in grand fashion that most righteous of pranks: the kind that makes people think. Too bad both the joke and any hope of rational thought seems lost on the Wikipedia hivemind.