> I find it frustrating when friends say it's unreliable/not to be trusted.
You should point them at some of the studies that show Wikipedia is more accurate than Encyclopedia Brittanica.
You should point them at some of the studies that show Wikipedia is more accurate than Encyclopedia Brittanica.
https://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response....
Wikipedia is riddled with far more and far deeper types of errors, I do edit Wikipedia daily but am quite disillusioned with it. Even articles on major topics can include made-up paragraphs that no one notices for years, errors caused by an editor's misunderstanding of what the source is actually saying, and errors that slowly accumulate through various editors' well meaning copy-editing.