Wikipedian

I love Wikipedia. No, you shouldn’t use it for academic research, but that doesn’t mean it should be avoided altogether. I adored my printed encyclopaedias as a child and read them back-to-back, sucking in as much knowledge as I could. Our collective knowledge changes over the years. Science is especially fluid. I’ve looked back at my old encyclopaedias and found many incorrect “facts”. This pleases me greatly as it means I absorbed the knowledge at the time and kept up-to-date on those cases. Wikipedia is the perfect encyclopaedia in my opinion because it’s as fluid as our knowledge. Sure, someone might incorrectly edit a page, but there are plenty of obsessive individuals (Wikipedians) willing to research the changes and maintain the quality of the content. I’ve finally became one of those obsessives.