Skywise wrote:

I've been seriously thinking of getting an account [on Wikipedia] so I
can make changes as I see the need.

In about the same amount of time it took you to write that sentence, you
could have made your account. Just got to http://tinyurl.com/6fvtg, type
in a user name and a password, and you're done.

Wikipedia and usenet are similar in many ways. On both, there are experts
and idiots and everything in between. The difference is that on Wikipedia,
articles have a decent chance of evolving towards containing better and
more correct information. On usenet, the same crap just gets recycled.