I definitely use Wikipedia, but never when &quot;looking for news&quot;. The article points to stats that people read Wikipedia before linking to news sites, but that is likely just because the Wikipedia article linked them to news sites. These readers are probably just looking for information, and news sites are reasonably reliable for that purpose. I imagine most of the time that a reader links from Wikipedia to a news article, it isn&#x27;t a new news article—if for no other reason that it has to have been added to a Wikipedia entry already.