Like someone said "a great place to start your research". Or the Onion article "Wikipedia celebrates it's 700th anniversary" It's faulty, no doubt. This is a fair expose' from what I remember.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Truth-About-Wikipedia

You said in the comments (your reputation for being difficult to understand is clearly undeserved, incidentally)

"Wikipedia a great tool for for fans and enthusiasts, who have researched their passionate interests, and nefarious at best, for anything but subjective editorials-It's a playing ground for defective process, and a catalyst for a type of newsspeak that assists in the dumbing-down of the masses, and breeding ground for revisionist history.
A soap-box for the mentally exhausted.

listen to the wisdom in the comment beginning at -34:00"

I agree in large part, but I think "revisionist history" could go both ways. It's good to challenge the history books. Doubleplus good.

Wikipedia is great. There is nothing better out there to do basic research or information gathering.

yer right farhad, in the exercise, is the development of the process.. my beef is the cut and paste, never a printed word read crowd....and the denture-grinding answers to some personal encounters here on the sift, in the form of some wiki link-meh. Walmart knowledge is cheap-gathering information involves more than exposure, passion, or addiction-

Wikipedia has more problems then you can ever imagine, if you are interested in Wikimedia and its past present and future I invite you to check out this blog. It's from an ex-top wikipedian, the guy who started veropedia he is a true Internet research legend. Wikipedia, for as massive as it is, has barely any moderation, does not fact check and just assumes everything will balance out in time.

Problem is, the average interenetter doesn't know that...You mention wikipedia to vast members of the population and they will tell you they didn't even know wikipedia was edited by "anyone"

Thanks Jeff, much appreciated-

Great for fleshing out those video descriptions here on the Sift. I'd be really nervous using it for a paper, though.

yeah, hard to smoke or even hold the weed with it....

Wikipedian. 1.horseshit described or inferred by all parties involved, as the real deal......

but great for music info.....