Why is the Bitcoin Wiki protected against editing? I recently found an error on the Bitcoin Wiki, when I noticed that I could not edit it.

I made an account a long time ago, so I logged into it, but still I am not able to edit pages.

Why is this? A wiki is supposed to be community-driven.

Who does have access to the wiki pages?
To prevent vandalism and spam. You can gain edit access by making a payment (in bitcoins, of course).

The payment required is (at least) 0.001 BTC, which is actually no longer trivially small in my opinion.


  BitcoinPayment is a MediaWiki extension to limit spam, by requiring a
  small one-time bitcoin payment before a user is allowed to edit or
  create pages.
  
  While the payment is deliberately trivially small for a normal user,
  it presents a barrier to a mass-spammer.
  
  Funds sent to this wiki will be used to keep the wiki online (cost of
  domain name and hosting), and remaining funds will be donated to the
  Bitcoin Foundation.