The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.