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Originally Posted by limabifrost
Wikipedia is a guilty pleasure at University. It's against the regulations to use it in your work/study, but i bet you'd be hard pushed to find someone who hasn't used it at least once.
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Very true
I lookup things on wikipedia as a quick way to read what something is --much easier than flipping through a 1500-page textbook
... but after I get the main ideas (say for a paper I'm writing or something), then I start to look for proper sources (sometimes even the sources at the bottom of the wiki page aren't good).
Sometimes though I spend hours just reading one page after the other on wikipedia and after that I realize how far I went after starting with a simple completely unrelated search
.. but I'd say I use it occasionally.