in response to "Berkeley undergrad gets hooked on Wikipedia"

I read over the article on a Berkley undergraduate student who got hooked on editing Wikipedia after taking a class that involved a project similar to ours. It is amazing to me that this kind of project is as popular as it is...especially at the collegiate level. All through high school and even during my first three years at Pitt, I have heard professors say over and over again that Wikipedia is not a credible source to use on any kind of project or research paper (although this never stopped me from using it). I think professors are turned off by the fact that anyone can hop on-line and make edits to this encyclopedia source. Because of the growing presence of the internet in today's society, I think professors should have to take a tutorial about Wikipedia before they can knock any research that was done using Wikipedia. As a source, Wikipedia has never failed me and, after participating in a project where we are to bring an article up to good standing, I have found it to be very credible. Almost anything that is added to a Wikipedia article must have some sort of reference, and there is a team of individuals that are responsible for making sure all edits are true and their sources reliable.