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Originally Posted by Profpat Do you know if it's peer reviewed. I thought it was, but I could be wrong.

No, Wikipedia is not peer reviewed: anyone with an email address can sign up and start editing. They do have moderators, but they seem to be there to stop arguments between editors rather than ensure the pages are correct. Also, there was an instance a while ago of one of the moderators stating that they had a PhD in some field, which then later unfolded to be a lie. That's one problem of online personas!

I guess being a lazy researcher, out of my field, I find it helpful, and they do have some good references at the end.

Now, using Wikipedia in that way is also good. Read through a page to see if it's interesting, and then check out the references to actually learn.