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Canada
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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It revolutionized the information industry. Basic information about just about anything can be accessed quickly. It also gives people without the proper credentials, an opportunity to prove themselves (write, author articles, create logos, familiarized with copyright rules).

Date of experience: September 19, 2011
Germany
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Can always find useful information on any topics, phrases or persons. When I am not sure about certain fixed phrases or special events of another culture, I use wiki. It is one of the most useful platforms for people to get to know different things.

Date of experience: November 1, 2013
Pennsylvania
7 reviews
14 helpful votes
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As long as you use wikipedia as *one* of the sources of your information, it's a wonderful aggregation of information about topics. Certainly anyone can change it, but that's the beauty of it - if pages are changed incorrectly, others typically go in and correct the error (whether intentional or not). Crowd sourcing at its best.

Date of experience: September 7, 2012
11 reviews
64 helpful votes
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Free, reliable encyclopedia of absolutely everything - This site is the benchmark of online, wiki-style encyclopedias -- and one of the best (and I believe most widely used) reference sites on the web. The articles cover an enormous number of topics, are collaboratively written by volunteers all over the world, and are constantly being reviewed, evaluated, revised and updated.

Date of experience: May 5, 2007
Georgia
3 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Whenever I want quick reference on something, for instance, when I'm watching television, Wikipedia is great. It covers so many unexpected subjects. In actual fact, it is somewhat moderated, and not just anybody can edit some subjects. That aside, as a retired librarian, what I really like about the Wikipedia articles are the references to other resources given at the end of the articles. These are the most important for verifying the information in the Wikipedia article. The references may make Wikipedia more valuable for a research project than the actual Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia may be best used as a spring board to finding good resources. The internal links in the articles are useful, but you must remember, they are internal and can be just as erroneous.

Date of experience: January 27, 2013
Philippines
4 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Before wikipedia was created, I have to go to the libraries to research for my school works. Now that wikipedia is here, it became easier. Although some of the teachers do not allow wikipedia as a source of info for thesis or other technical papers, because they say, it can be edited and wasn't verified unlike data from real encyclopedia.
Nevertheless, i can understand lessons better as I browsed over wiki infos.

Date of experience: June 21, 2012
New York
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I like wikipedia because you find information about pretty much anything. If you are a curious person and bored you can just go to wikipedia, go to a random article and learn something new. It might not be very practical, but it might help you think of something more interesting to do. Obviously its not a place to do scientific research, but the sources on articles can often times be quite valuable and help you find a more detailed source of information. Wikipedia is a great place to read biographies about real people. It can also be used as an unbiased news site.

Date of experience: October 30, 2018
Texas
3 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Has some of the best and most widely used reference on the Web, but watch out for vandalism - when some idiot tries to put spam in a page. The vandalism is fixed quickly though. Not a 4-star site because of Vandalism. Still one of the best sites of the World Wide Web.

P.S. Remember to check out it's sister projects too! They are quite interesting.

Date of experience: January 25, 2011
Paul C.
Pennsylvania
80 reviews
148 helpful votes
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Would be better if only veteran members can edit pages. I hate the fact that anyone can edit them. There are some pages that upset me and that's what takes three stars off of this site. Some pages are editable and I even want to edit the Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 video game page, but it's semi-protected. That's about it.

Date of experience: August 16, 2014
China
12 reviews
24 helpful votes
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I don't believe wikipedia hasn't been reviewed yet - but it doesn't come up on my site Jabber addon!

I love Wikipedia for general reference, finding the smallest detail, squashing a squabble over something silly and looking up how the latest TV series/ movie you're watching ends or just adding to your general trivial knowledge - Wikipedia has it all.

Just don't reference or quote it.
It's not a reliable source or quotable person!

Date of experience: March 31, 2010
California
15 reviews
48 helpful votes
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I really love this website, although my teachers never want us to use it for research, because "anyone can change it and it might not be accurate" and so on... but its accurate 99% of the time, and you can find almost anything on this website. Very useful website.

Date of experience: July 25, 2011
Texas
25 reviews
195 helpful votes
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I really like Wikipedia
December 31, 2009

I really like Wikipedia. People have a problem with it because it can be changed or altered by others. But they have to have links to information that backs up their additions. If they do not they will have time to find them or it'll be removed. This is far better than any encyclopedia book. Why? Because this information can be altered for corrections or updated on the spot. It gives information to the people and helps them understand certain things better.

I think that it's one of the best sites to ever be created because it furthers people's understanding of certain things. I like that it has to be written without bias. It's a fantastic site for information on many different topics.

Date of experience: December 31, 2009
Illinois
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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This is good for getting information on almost anything. It is good to also get the year a specific song came out. It doesn't always have the song you are looking for and sometimes you have several steps to getting that information and some reading to get to it. It is a reliable website that you don't have to worry about getting a virus / worm / trojan like if you make the mistake of clicking on songfacts, which puts an extremely high risk infection on your computer system!

Date of experience: April 19, 2010
Ukraine
7 reviews
23 helpful votes
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This is one of the most informative and best of its kind of sites. Incredible help for people who have access to the Internet. Here you will find information about absolutely everything, for those who like to grow and improve their knowledge!

Date of experience: November 2, 2014
Virginia
4 reviews
13 helpful votes
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An excellent website which has no competition with other websites providing information online. Whenever I want to have information about any topic I access wikipedia and it always returned valuable and to the point information.

Date of experience: June 8, 2011
New York
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Whats not to love about Wikipedia.org? A online encyclopedia to refer to almost anything and everything possible. At many times searching is a breeze and obtaining available info in a jiffy is great.

Site is always well maintained and supported. Reading along and finding out new and exciting things is also a great place for this site. Always reliable and contains in many cases lots of facts.

Reviews on some articles or publications are made to insure that publicist are actually posting facts. Which bring me to the conclusion most info on the site is accurate.

Date of experience: May 21, 2011
Kansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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While controversial I feel that Wikipedia is an interesting and important tool to internet users. It provides the opportunity for people to collaborate with complete strangers to further the availability of knowledge to people. The fact that it is easy to use makes it a common site for students especially and though most instructors would discourage its use, if not the use of the actual page one can use the source lists that are available on the page to find published sources that are credible in most instances. The best way to change the perception of this tool would be to educate its users on the better ways to use the tool to their ends, especially at a student level while continuing to allow the freedom it allows for most to edit and help to endow others with knowledge.

Date of experience: October 3, 2014
California
101 reviews
171 helpful votes
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Careful
January 16, 2017

Be careful of the information that you learn on this website, many articles contain contradictions and factual inaccuracies in them. The website is open to whomever wants to edit and write articles, therefore exercise critical thinking skills and take facts learned from the articles on this website with a grain of salt. Recommended with reservations and advice.

Date of experience: January 16, 2017
Tennessee
7 reviews
19 helpful votes
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I think Wikipedia is a fun site and gives you a good broad overview of things. However, the content often has errors and it is not a fully reliable source for information. I will put it this way, my daughter tried to use it was a source for a research paper and the teacher gave the entire class a lesson about finding more valid sources. That is not intended as a putdown to Wikipedia. It is good, general knowledge but if you are seriously researching something you need to dig deeper.

Date of experience: May 30, 2012
Illinois
8 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Wikipedia
August 2, 2012

Wikipedia. It's a site where a person can learn about many topics. The main concern is that since anyone can edit or post pages on Wikipedia, the site can contain inaccurate information (which is why teachers strongly discourage using Wikipedia as a reference on essays and research papers).

Date of experience: August 2, 2012

Overview

The overall sentiment towards the company reveals a divided reputation. Many customers appreciate the accessibility and breadth of information provided, often praising its utility for educational purposes and expressing gratitude for its free service. However, significant concerns arise regarding perceived biases in content, particularly on politically sensitive topics, leading to accusations of misinformation and editorial manipulation. Customers also note challenges with the editing process and moderation, which some find restrictive. This feedback suggests a need for improved transparency and neutrality in content management to enhance trust and credibility among users.

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