How much one can trust the information published in the wikipedia? [closed]

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Published on 2010-05-04T10:13:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 10:18 UTC
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Wikipedia has answers for many question almost in all categories.

Let it be

Technical
Sports
Personalities
Important events (this day, that day)
Scientific terms
etc...

I know the source of contents are from volunteers (Please correct me if I'm wrong here). But what measures they have to ensure that contents are properly written. Even if they have admin/moderator and all that, they may not be experts in all areas. So how do they validate the appropriateness of the content?

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