Charms of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the most common and general sources for information nowadays. But these information comes from unknown and anonymous people/sources all over the web, and with this in mind one may think or even doubt how reliable ‘Wikipedia’ really is. In my opinion the charm that Wikipedia gives off is that it is readily one of the easiest to access sites in this century. Except that the only downside is the information may or may not be fully reliable unless the researcher does a double check on the facts that Wikipedia gives and compares it to another reliable source such as sites that end with .gov or .edu which are maintained by the government themselves.