How accurate is wikipedia encyclopedia?  

Hi BlueGoblin, as almost anyone can join and edit wikipedia pages, i think it is not much accurate.

Well our prof in the school that I am studying said that wikipedia is not accurate because anyone can just send articles or information there. I don't know if wikipedia is cannot be trusted but, when I do research or want to look for something I always use wikipedia as my reference.

It varies. Some bits are great, some aren't. Any info you get from Wikipedia you should verify with other sources as well.

It's accurate. If someone changing a page with a inaccurate information, sometimes an User change the page with an accurate info, or maybe they also put "Citation needed" after a sentences which isn't 100% accurate.

Well, But I always look Wikipedia for my references :)

I think it depends from what kind of sources or responses you are looking for on the online encylopedia!!
I noticed that in man cases answers will be accurate and really comprehensible in other cases not alos because veryone can join it and so writing articles and definitons so it quite impossible to understand the level and accurance of the writer!!
Anyway when i searched something ,personally i was almost satisfied about the responses..

Wikipedia have much thing to grow. He have many things to resolve like the "edit" option. Little things are useless, it is not correct.
Wikipedia is better.
Had almost all of school researches hehe.
Bye

Though Wikipedia is containing information about everything almost, we should keep this only for the reference and not as the record as anybody can include or modify the content just after making a sing up which will take one or two minutes. In my view, this is not of much reliable source of information.If some internet player wish to change the content or the information , then he can do it within no time..As we can not expect as every body should be very serious in providing data or information very accurate,this may not possible always..

No Wikipedia is not 100% accurate. Remember that virtually anyone can post to Wikipedia. That information is not coming from professional sources in whatever source you are looking at. Any old person off the street can post information there. Granted there is a lot of accurate information on there, but a lot of inaccurate information can be found there, and there will be people who place false stuff on there just to be funny, it will get deleted if found, but you don't know if you have happened on to something that has not been fixed yet. It is still a good source it just would not be a bad idea to fact check what ever you read on there especially if you are using the information for a report or an article, or something important where the information needs to be very accurate.

It's as accurate as it needs to be for the type of site and information it is providing.

It is a useful platform to start information gathering since it does use reference links to more authorative material.