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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library at the University of Michigan is the first presidential library in the United States to employ a “Wikipedian in residence” on its staff. What a change from recent years when Wikipedia was often decried as an unreliable and non-authoritative information source. Of course, it can still be unreliable and non-authoritative, but with an increased level of community oversight, it's rapidly becoming an indispensable research tool. I realized a few years ago that Wikipedia was at a turning point when I read a New York Times article that reported that courts had cited Wikipedia in making cases. With time and even better oversight, Wikipedia can only get better.