Once the butt of jokes for being the site where visitors could find anything, true or not, Wikipedia in recent years has become a more trusted source of information - certainly for settling bar bets, but even for weighty topics like Ebola. (Noam Cohen)

Once the butt of jokes for being the site where visitors could find anything, true or not, Wikipedia in recent years has become a more trusted source of information - certainly for settling bar bets, but even for weighty topics like Ebola.

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