<p>Everyone at my school loves and uses wikipedia, since now it's the world's leading information resource =D</p>
<p>Type anything into google and whats the first result? wikipedia.org (most of the time)</p>
<p>its a truly great resource, love its CEO for making it. While the information isn't always true (Even though 99.9999% of the time it is), the reading format, organization, and breadth/depth makes it a great tool for the human race.</p>
<p>Reading Wikipedia is just like reading encyclopedias for fun (which I did when dinosaurs roamed the earth). Broadens your knowledge base, can be quite interesting, and is decidedly nerdy. However, I was never ashamed of being a nerd.</p>
<p>Scene one:</p>
<p>Peer: What are you doing?
IK: Surfing wikipedia.
Peer: Psh, nerd.</p>
<p>Scene two:</p>
<p>Peer: What are you doing?
IK: Surfing the net.
Peer: Cool.</p>
<p>It's all about the symantics :)</p>
<p>I don't exactly proclaim it....... but I know some people that surf wiki who aren't nerds.</p>
<p>Ooo I understand the copying wiki as your whole paper thing then.. My teacher checked all of our sources so I far from copied it. I don't think I had anything close to being similar so...</p>
<p>My school had Wikipedia blocked, under the category "Reference."
Then again, there are some sites blocked under "Education."</p>
<p>And I did know a kid from my school who'd made tens of thousands of edits to Wikipedia -- he was rather intelligent...</p>
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<p>depends on which articles. :D</p>
<p>I actually surf Uncyclopedia more than Wikipedia.
It's on my list of "things I do when I'm bored"</p>
<p>Actually, I go to the same school as romanigypsyeyes and I would like to politely disagree with her. A bunch of us TAG kids and other fellow nerds surf Wikipedia for fun, although we don't really talk about it. I like to edit it, too (2,500+ edits). It's kind of like reading an almanac; you use it to find out some information on, say, the War of the Triple Alliance. An hour later, you're reading about beta sheets in prions. Hopefully, none of us use Wikipedia for research papers. </p>
<p>Our schools are too large for there to be any defined hierarchy, anyway. There are no nerds except those who want to be nerds.</p>
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<p>What? Blasphemy! Our lettered jigsaw globe can smash your potato. In fact, your potato is probably growing on our globe! Remember, every time you edit Uncyclopedia, God huffs a kitten! As well as Oscar Wilde!</p>
<p>This is what comes of too much NetHack!</p>
<p>Everyone turns to Wikipedia to bs hw.</p>
<p>Surfing wikipedia is soo fun, come on guys. :D</p>
<p>Blocked in my county, so can't :/ I do waste hours upon hours clicking around in wikipedia though.</p>