Jimmy Wales wrote:
I am a little ashamed to admit something here, but I
will. A while
back, I thought about Robert Mugabe, whose story I used to follow in the
news quite regularly, and I went and read our article about him. I
remember reading this about his children not being subject to a travel
ban. I did not follow the link to see the source (I was not editing at
that moment, I was just reading Wikipedia like any other consumer of
information).
Consumers of information should also be checking the sources if they
intend to be using the information in any remotely serious manner
(standing up in the British House of Commons and asking a question based
off of it, for example). Wikipedia has strong disclaimers to this effect.