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+{{cquote|I am currently a graduate student getting my masters in applied physics. When I was assigned research projects in high-school, I was specifically instructed not to use Wikipedia as it was not a "credible" source of information. However, as I progressed through my education and eventually started to conduct my own scientific research I discovered that Wikipedia more often than not had the answers and information I needed. The reason for this became more and more apparent as my research skills improved over the years. Every reliable source of information in any field is credible because it is peer reviewed and because it is a collaboration from many minds that have reached similar conclusions. There is no source of information with a larger pool of minds to review it than Wikipedia and it is precisely for this reason that it has become such a vital and abundant source of information. I consider myself lucky to have this resource available and rarely a day goes by now that I don't come to this site seeking the answer to a question. The idea of a website where anyone in the world can make their knowledge available to everyone else for free is fantastic and a big step forward in the constant pursuit of understanding the world around us and everything that exists in it.}}
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 {{cquote|Having used Wikipedia from my teenage years, it fed into my conception of open access to information as foundational to any democratic civil society.  It is both an emblem of, and an forum for, knowledge as a collective endeavor.  It is the sort of institution needed to build transparent social structures predicated on cooperation and commonly held resources. }}