The main skill—in short supply—that Wikipedia fosters is to look at things from varying points of view, through a kind of detached pseudoprofessionalism. Becau

The main skill—in short supply—that Wikipedia fosters is to look at things from varying points of view, through a kind of detached pseudoprofessionalism. Because the function of Wikipedia is to exhibit different viewpoints (where applicable) rather than to convince anyone of them, it's much easier to step into a relativistic, descriptive mindset, rather than a prescriptive one.