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I believe WikiPedia is intended to be a reference work, something to be referred to in order to check facts. I believe WikiPedia is intended not to have tutorial material or other aspects designed to aid learning.

Sorry if I came off a bit flippant earlier, WP is definitely a pet peeve of mine (or rather, what WP could be vs. the disaster minority of wrong headed admins have turned it into)

I actually agree with you -- that WP is different than say a tutorial or other path to learning. But reference works are one of the primary tools of pretty much any sort of pedagogy.

I agree that it's a different kind of learning...or rather perhaps reference books are something used as part of a tutorial of other teaching system.