To quote the great Michael Scott from the popular television show The Office, "Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information." Wikis are the wave of the future and it is a simple way for people to get all the information they want. The discussion in schools of course is can the information be trusted without all the proper citations. I think wikis can and should be trusted. All information from these sources with proper citations and proof of where the information came from might all be made up anyways. If I become a professor I am going to advise my students to use wikis for information because if I assign a paper I want to hear what the student thinks not what information they can find and cite. Wikis and Weblogs are how most people think now in our society. These are the two easiest ways to get large amounts of information about a random subject. I think that today's society want things easy without having to work so if I can go on Wikipedia and get all this information I am not going to go through the trouble of going to a scholarly website or go to the library and pull out an encyclopedia. Whether it is a positive or negative I feel that is how our society operates today.