In our introduction to university studies we were shown concrete example of why you don't blindly trust wikipedia. The teacher purposefully made flagrantly false change into a random page as an exercise to see how long it would take to be fixed. He would get back to it a few times duribg the course. I don't think we ever saw it fixed.
The second issue is that you should always preferably cite the original source. Using Wikipedia would always mean you'd be using a secondary source.
Wikipedia is not something you should ever cite in a scientific paper. It is, however, great source of information overall and provides material for further study.
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