Hello,
But then again, I have my doubts Wikipedia should be calling itself an encyclopedia in the first place. It's not really an encyclopedia, it's a website for a group of people who are building an encyclopedia. I remember arguing that years ago on IRC, though, and I lost the argument. Most Wikipedians insist that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, even though common sense says that it is not.
Well, I'm not sure I agree. I use wikipedia as an encyclopaedia all the time. It's great on countries, models of cars, computer technologies etc. But I'm lucky enough to realise that the information is of an "amateur" standard, and I don't make any serious decisions based on anything I've only read there. As most of "us" know - there are good bits and there are bad bits. But does the general public?
Steve