I struggled through my university Physical Chemistry course. The class was taught by a highly intelligent professor who might as well have been speaking a foreign language when lecturing. When I looked for additional resources to study, Wikipedia proved invaluable. It was easy to access and comprehend, and quickly replaced my expensive convoluted textbook. In fact, Wikipedia made an appearance in almost every university level course I took, sometimes to the dismay of my professors who considered it “not a credible source.” Still, I kept coming back.
These days, the conversation around online sources of data looks a little different. . .