How reliable is Wikipedia?

Don’t get me started

I mostly use it for researching music artists - 8/10.

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From Wikipedia:

In December 2005, the journal Nature published results of an attempted blind study seeking reviewer evaluations of the accuracy of a small subset of articles from Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica. The non-peer-reviewed study was based on Nature's selection of 42 articles on scientific topics, including biographies of well-known scientists. The articles were compared for accuracy by anonymous academic reviewers, a customary practice for journal article reviews. Based on their reviews, on average the Wikipedia articles were described as containing 4 errors or omissions, while the Britannica articles contained 3. Only 4 serious errors were found in Wikipedia, and 4 in Britannica. The study concluded that "Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries" although Wikipedia's articles were often "poorly structured".

https://www.nature.com/articles/438900a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Comparative_studies

Depends on the topic. If anything is least bit controversial the editors will change it to the most socially acceptable form.
Two I know of:
1) The reporter who died last year. They put down that she died in the car crash but Antivaxxers said she died of the vaccine. They wiped out her cause of death.
2) Splash Mountain articles are being sanitized to fit the Disney agenda.

I've donated money to Wikipedia. I know some people think that's foolish, but it's just been a few bucks.

It is SO handy when it comes to gaming, sports, music, entertainment etc. facts and figures. I use it a lot so I have no problem putting in a few dollars once a year or so.

8/10 seems about right to me, it's a very useful resource. I did edit it once just to test it out. I put in some trolling foolishness and it got corrected within about half an hour.

5/10. It’s a start but not a reliable, cite-able source for any serious research. I use it for general knowledge info only.

Depends on the subject. When it comes to historical or scientific subjects, the kind that aren't subjected to the changing whim of politics or current changes in fashionable thought, it's pretty reliable. Ask Wikipedia about Queen Æthelflæd of Mercia, or where any given episode of "Star Trek" was shot, or the pathophysiology of oat cell cancers, and you're probably getting pretty accurate information.

Ask it a question about a current controversy, you're probably getting fashionable opinions and/or misinformation.