[Jeff Higgins]

Microsoft got caught doing this as well.

Wiki is still a great source of information, in spite of the corporate and special interest meddling. Unless someone is actively trying to sway a given topic, and making it pretty much a full time job, it tends to be pretty good at self correcting. I've found it to be quite accurate in the areas in which I have specific, detailed knowledge, so that lends confidence when researching areas in which I do not. It seems only the politically controversial, or the corporate image influencing stuff is all that really gets abused.

Besides, where else can a below average meathead go to quickly find information that will make him appear to know what he is talking about on internet BBS's? Wiki has made a hero (in their own minds) of many a BBS poster who otherwise wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. There is no shortage of them on this very site that take full advantage of this, attempting to pass themselves off as experts in virtually any topic. Poor guys would be lost without their little Wiki resource.