How accurate do you think wikipedia is ?

just wondering. i use it for a lot of studies .

98.3%

Its fairly accurate, but you should always double check your sources with a governemtn or university website.

People can edit stuff on wikipedia.

very accurate

I find most of it's pretty reliable and accurate. I would give it a 97% because some people have no idea what the heck they are talking about....

I haven't used it for studying or anything but the times I have used it it has been accurate. I mean it should be b/c it is so widely used.

it's not accurate , anyone can writes on wikipedia, and they make lots of fake info. and wikipedia is not realiable source

I'm Wiki's #1 fan. 97% accurate.

The level of skepticism you should have towards Wikipedia depends on how important the info is. Besides, every article is written by different people so it's hard to generalize.

Generally, I find it quite accurate, but check elsewhere to corroborate the info that you're worried about.

theoretically, you can't trust wikipedia, but i find the information very accurate in it. however many scholars and universities and colleges ban students from using that as a reference.

just to be safe, check some other sites. you can't do a research with just one site, you need a multiple of them to make your report credible

Well, I think it's pretty credible. It seems well researched...

i think it's very accurate,but not completely because anyone can edit it , and change it

what's interesting about wikipedia is that typically what you find as the "truth" on it is really a consensus of the collective. This can be fine if you're tring to find info on something non-controversial like cd players, but when it touches something more deeper such as alternative medecine or politics, then you really end up with a "consensus facts". So you really just get a middle ground, which has nothing at all to do with the actual truth.

pretty accurate..

when i do research for school projects i go to wikipedia to get an overview of the subject in question and then i find other sources to back it up..

i have yet to find faulty info on wiki

and besides...even though anyone can post to wikipedia...the posters use resources and if they posted faulty information someone would bring that to wiki's attention and the faulty info would be changed

There are often editors' notes at the top of pages that have not met the criteria for a full review by staffers.
But when a page is full of numbered references after references, it's usually been thoroughly reviewed and can be considered as accurate as any enclyopedia.

It is accurate for many more obscure topics but terribly inaccurate on more widely talked about subjects and opinionated matters. For example I get good base information about quantum mechanical subjects from wikipedia, but I once looked up Bruce Lee who's wiki claimed he could do a number of super human feets such as punching a man and causing him to fly over 15 ft.

It is pretty accurate, however, people can post whatever they want on it, so I wouldn't trust it if you are doing research for a paper or anything. I don't think you should trust it for your studies. There are plenty of other trustworthy sites that give you better and more accurate information than Wikipedia does.

I think its pretty acurate, people check the articles like every second, but sometimes they make errors, one time my brother looked up Alex Rodrigiez and it said he was gay, so i wouldnt completly trust it for school or stuff like that but over all its good i think.

it is pretty acurate but since it is entered by other users I would double check your work with a more tradional reference material

Others than mentioned above, the accuracy depend on the subject you're looking for. If you look for something that everyone interested. It can be accurate up to 99.99% since it must have been contributed by hundreds of people. But if you look for a small town in Asia. It might be wrote down by one or two people, so the information there might be so-so or totally wrong.

50%
You can never know when information on there is true or not, so there is a 50/50 chance that something on there is really true. People rely on it for research papers but you could be learning something that looks reliable but isn't.

it depends.....any one can put anything on it....but u can probobly test it out by using it and then using reliable sources to back it up

It's completely unreliable!

I know some people that post false information in Wikipedia. Some of there are still there.

So take be carefull with Wikipedia. There are a lot of vandalism and false information there.

90%
i use it a lot too

Wikipedia can be trusted and is pretty accurate.
Try editing wrong information yourself:
Admins all around Wikipedia will send edit it immediately. There is like a million. Get a Wikipedia username and start editing pages.

Sometimes, Wikipedia does not have much information on a certain thing.

That is when you look at other Encyclopedias such as Britannica.com, Reference.com, and Encarta.com.

Hope you understand.

-It is simply one of the best places for learning information on the web.

93.5% I've Done 1,543 Searches.

It's pretty good, but there are 2 problems.
#1. People editing it.
#2. Incredibly large vocabulary.