Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

Hey teachers: Leave those kids alone! Or at least stop telling them not to use Wikipedia in their homework assignments, since you're all doing it, too. The Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...

More than half of college students frequently or always consult Wikipedia for course-related research, according to a report published in First Monday, an online, peer-reviewed journal. Only 22 ...

Since its introduction in 2001, Wikipedia has grown to host more than 19 million articles with 82,000 contributors in more than 270 languages. Wikipedia has 400 million unique viewers each month as of ...

Note to judges: Wikipedia is officially unreliable. Sure, we've seen plenty of legal cases over the years where judicial decisions have referenced Wikipedia (usually in footnotes, and often to explain ...

If you are sitting in front of a Linux system, you can always pop open a browser and query topics of interest on Wikipedia. On the other hand, if you’re logged on through a terminal emulator like ...