Wikipedia is a site where the information can be edited by its members. Most of the information is accurate, I assume. But given the oppurtunity to modify any and everything, I don't find it credible. My college doesn't accept Wikipedia as a source for info because of that.

Who owns Wikipedia? Wikipedia is managed by a nonprofit parent organization, The Wikimedia Foundation, which also manages the operation of Wikipedia's sister projects, including Wiktionary (a wiki dictionary), Wikibooks (textbooks), and others, and owns all of their domain names. Previously, the site was hosted on the servers of Bomis, Inc., a company mostly owned by Jimmy Wales, who currently funds part of the site's operational costs. With the announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation on June 20, 2003, the ownership of all domain names as well as the technical equipment was transferred to the Foundation. The site is run by the community of Wikipedians guided by the principles articulated by Jimmy Wales, including, for example, an adherence to a neutral point of view. The articles hosted on this site are released by their authors under the GNU Free Documentation License (or a free license), so the articles are free content and may be reproduced freely under the same license. See Wikipedia:Copyrights and Wikipedia:Readers' FAQ for information on how you can use Wikipedia content. Who is responsible for the articles on Wikipedia? You are! Actually, you can even edit this very FAQ, so long as the edits are helpful. This is a collaborative effort. Thousands of people have contributed information to different parts of this project, and anyone can do so, including you. All you need is to know how to edit a page, and have some encyclopedic knowledge you want to share. The encyclopedia provides users with a certain amount of freedom. You can learn who is responsible for the most recent versions of any given page by clicking on the "Page history" link. Nevertheless, if you spot an error in the latest revision of an article, you are highly encouraged to be bold and correct it. This practice is one of the basic review mechanisms that maintains the reliability of the encyclopedia. As a result, Wikipedia has become one of the most extensive information libraries available on the Internet. If you are uncertain or find the wording confusing, quote the material on the associated talk page and leave a question for the next person. This helps eliminate errors, inaccuracies, or misleading wording more quickly and is highly appreciated by the community. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overview_FAQ#What_is_Nupedia.3F

Wiipedia is the worst source of information out there. You only must be a memeber of the site for three days to be able to post whatever you want about a certain subject and thats it. So do you trust everyone typing just anything.

Wikipedia is a project to create a general encyclopedia within a wiki in every language. It began as a fun experiment of the more serious NuPedia project in January 2001, but quickly took off to become a separate entity. After only a few months, it became the second biggest wiki on the Net (the original WikiWiki being the largest). In 2006, it has the 1,500,000 article mark (not counting tens of thousands of other pages of discussions, redirects, etc). With its other assorted pages, Wikipedia is now the world's BiggestWiki. The original NuPedia project has been shut down. The founders of WikiPedia are WikiPedia:Jimbo_Wales, owner of the web portal Bomis, and LarrySanger, who served as WikiPedia's chief organizer until March 1, 2002. Originally, the project used UseModWiki, but community members developed a PHP wiki (called MediaWiki) specifically designed for producing an encyclopedia. Since WikiPedia uses wiki software, it is similar to the many other wikis on the WorldWideWeb. However, the goal of the WikiPedia community to produce an encyclopedia makes its culture quite different. Some people say that WikiPediaIsNotTypical; others argue that there is no such thing as a "typical" wiki. There is a separate wiki called MetaWikiPedia that is used to separate WikiOnWiki and MediaWiki discussions from encyclopedia work. A dictionary-themed wiki, the [WiktionaryProject], has recently spawned off as well. There are also [WikiBooks] to make textbooks, [WikiQuote] to document quotes, [WikiNews] for collaborative citizen journalism, [WikiSource] for free-content source texts, [WikimediaCommons] for storing and annotating media, [WikiSpecies] as a species database, and [WikiVersity] as a collaborative LearningCommunity. An (slightly factually inaccurate) analysis of Wikipedia is made in the FirstMonday article OpenSourceIntelligence. In 2004, the [WikimediaFoundation] was set up as a non-profit organisation to raise money for Wikipedia. The goals of the foundation are to maintain and develop open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge.