Wikipedia - www.wikipedia.org

Many people believe Wikipedia is unreliable due to the fact that anyone can edit information on the articles, and there are several famous examples of the so called vandalism on various articles. These acts of vandalism are often short-lived (often fixed in minutes), however, and the community of editors does an excellent job maintaining and updating the information of nearly all pages, including low traffic pages.

Wikipedia is an excellent site for finding quick information or recreational studying, but should not be relied on to support academic or professional research. The site still has utility for high level research however, as nearly all Wikipedia articles list high quality references at the end of the article.

There have been a few academic studies testing the reliability of Wikipedia, and if you are doubtful, a quick Google search of Wikipedia's reliability will return several useful results.

Self important obnoxious knowitalls (reference: someone)

One of the main purposes of wiki is as such:

People want their names to appear in the credits on your screen.

Generally I'm not keen on wiki, because the info always seems to be inane details spewed over several pages, when what I actually want is "an answer". I'll google a question (other search engines may be available), and what I'm looking for is a single number, or one fact. Wiki will give me a hurl of several pages, and I often end up closing it, and googling again.

After the reference of life, I now know that giving you an answer is not "the writers" primary objective. They just want to pour as much of themselves down your throat as poss, you'll see their name in the credits, and think, wow. yeah. look at that/them.

As in anything, there is the "writers clique". If you are one of the lab coats in the central boiler room, then by dammit, anyone who questions you must be an imbecile. (if you are a first time user and attempt an edit, and you do not follow precise protocol, you Will be shot. What do you mean you are not familiar with wiki procedure ? Any wiki regular will tell you that no human exists who does not know exactly how wiki works)

If you are one of the bunsen burner protectors, then if you see anything that hasn't just been copied from somewhere else, you have to run to the lab coat, and say yes sir hello sir, INTERNETS VANDALISMS sir".

The bunsen burner protector will then notch up on the wiki bed post, and the lab coat will get another coating of keyboard dioxide and be a step close to the much covetted title of "wa*kiest wiki". *=c of course.

The base around which wiki revolves is not fact (or truth), but ctrl-c.

i see that a lot of information not accurate in history and they're too many young people believe what they read innthis site and also some medical student use this site for medical issues so please do not write any article you're not sure about it and also u have to have your warning before each article so people need to be aware .Thank you so much.

I find Wikipedia rather amusing because most of their history comes from the historians that have been spouting the same thing for the last forty years despite all the new discoveries. I also find that wiki sings from the same sheet of paper as our lying Governments and our press do. They only tell us the bits they want us to know that suits their agenda. Why bother going to wiki when all there rubbish on their website can be found on government websites. Wiki say you can change the facts but even if you can prove what you say they will still stick with their own propaganda and lies. When anyone says they read a fact on Wikipedia during any discussion about any subject everyone laughs at that person for being so gullible. Most people’s reaction is very similar to telling people you read a fact in the Sun newspaper.

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This site uses false information. I could get on this site right now and write cheese comes from dogs and it would say okay thank you for yur useful information. I really think you should consider useing .gov .edu or .org as research tools for information. The information on the site will be acureate for sure. So that is why i dislike this site

I do a lot of research and therefore spend a lot of time on Wikipedia. I find it great fun and "sticky", once you get there it is difficult to navigate away as there is plenty and plenty to read. It is amazing how almost all the information you need is in one place. I have used it for work and for education and find it really helpfull.

I can and do spend vast portions of my life on Wikipedia. It may not be healthy or indeed what I am learning may not be 100% factual but it's fun, entertaining and addictive.

I tend to leave my laptop on if I am watching television or reading a book and if I come across any themes I want to know more about which is oh, about 50 times a day, I dive in to get the background. The data is easy to find and you tend to get a clean, concise background in two minutes or less. They way they link articles is smart because if you want to drill even deeper into a subject you seemingly can forever.

Indeed sometimes I jump in and end up so engrossed I forget what I was doing beforehand. I find it particularly useful for historical research - especially when you are watching something like a movie or historical TV series and you want to separate the fact from the fiction.

I have done this is the last week alone watching The Tudors, Last Chance to See, Kingdom of Heaven, Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption and also reading a book about Noetics (Dan Brown - don't ask). I also researched the history of tea and the Wispa bar the other night! Sad I know...

I know there has been some controversy about some topics such as the second world war and American politics but if you stay away from the really contentious stuff you generally get content written by well informed contributors who know what they are talking about. And the standardised layout is fantastic because once you get used to it it's super easy to skim articles.

This is exactly what the internet was made for and world is a better and more fact-filled place because of it!

I have used wikipedia at home, school, and now at work. A fantastic tool to research whatever happens to be on your mind. I have found that almost every single topic I have typed into wiki has had a page (and I've searched some wierd stuff). Highly recommended site, though do not take all of the information literally.

Wide variety of information on subjects, however I personally find that there can be some negative experience with accurateness of some subjects.

However in my opinion helpful in most circumstances. I love the availability of extra sources. Therefore I do recommend www.wikipedia.org.