All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VI

[GethN7]

It's not really a wheel war, as that implies use of privileges.

wheel wars: n. [Stanford University] A period in
larval stage during which student hackers hassle each other by
attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other's files,
and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser
users.

In particular, this refers to conflicts between members of the wheel group (who are generally sudoers or have some sort of administrative privileges).   The definition is a bit too specific, I'd say it was: "Repeated (mis)use of administrative privileges to block or reverse actions of other administrators of a computing resource, frequently initiated for the purpose of harassment, bragging, or protest."
Wheel wars on wikis are really only common on the bigger ones like English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, where sysops and 'crats have used admin privileges to undo software developer and office actions, especially related to VisualEditor and MediaViewer.  Or reverting each other's actions for no reason, etc.  I don't think we've had any wheel wars on ATT.

Yeah, I got that wrong, thanks for correcting me.

Also, already filed a Phabricator report, but giving you another notice here, Flow is BROKE. People cannot create or reply to new threads at all, this needs fixed yesterday.