Know it All
by Stacy Schiff
To be honest, I'm really tired of reading things that portray Wikipedia as an underground source for research; like the black market of information. I think that a lot of the flack for Wikipedia is from an older generation that doesn't "trust" technology yet and doesn't understand that not everyone out there in the big bad internet is out to get them.
I am a frequent user of Wikipedia, I guess I could be categorized as the "WikiGnome" as stated in the reading, who goes around a fixes typos and other small errors. When I am unsure of what something might be, where a certain location is or something else I almost always go to Wikipedia first. It's pretty obvious when an article has been hacked and the information is incorrect, you just have to use your own discretion and sense of knowledge.
Besides, if there are any doubts about the information provided in a Wikipedia article, there are citations and the links to the original websites that provide the information.
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