Welcome to My World

Wikipedia is not without its critics, and undoubtedly I’m about to give them another reason to hate it. I land somewhere in the middle with respect to Wikipedia — it doesn’t (yet) have the clout and reliability that a publication like Encyclopedia Britannica might, but it most certainly beats those publications hands-down in timeliness, in sheer size, and in ease of access (I can’t carry those hardbound tomes around with me anywhere I go, but I can cram the text-only version of Wikipedia onto a 2GB SD card and read it on my smartphone). I don’t trust it completely, but I also don’t instantly doubt everything I see there. I figure it’s suitable as a starting point for research, so long as you’re actually willing to check all those citations.