Does anyone here use Wikipedia?

[Faid1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

For those who don't know, Wikipedia is a community driven, open source online encylopedia. An important feature of Wikipedia is the "free linking", that is links to relevant pages within the site, which consequently allows one to get lost for hours in a wealth of information. Consider it a Million Degrees of Seperation.

Every time I visit I'm find another interesting thing.

Here's a good list to start you off:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_f...l_future_events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciento...._the_Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_second_rule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand

[Ozy_Flame]

Yeah I use it for reference now and then, just to see if I am correct in some of my assumptions.

It's definetely the most inconsistent online encyclopedia out there, but that's what you get when its free and the users add the material.

[peter12]

Wikipedia is useless as an academic source. It's information written by amateurs, not experts. All my uni professors say to stay away from it for papers if you don't want to fail.

[Hakan]

Newsflash: stay away from ANY encyclopedias on your academic papers.