It's harder to find a page where there *isn't* some glaringly obvious bias. - Larry Sanger

I actually think that the mechanisms just of people acting like jerks and driving off decent people who want a neutral reference, that's enough to explain the bias

There is no rule of law in wikipedia... but the way that the policies are applied is absolutely arbitrary.

It's become both opaque and centralized, centralized in the sense that the authority to participate in Wikipedia has been greatly restricted. You can be completely anonymous and even be a top-ranked Wikipedia user with administrator rights. So, they could be working for various corporations, various government spy agencies, maybe for criminal organizations.