I was wrestling with calling it indispensable, and totally agree that it's all out there, but Wikipedia severely reduces the friction of finding the correct cit

I was wrestling with calling it indispensable, and totally agree that it's all out there, but Wikipedia severely reduces the friction of finding the correct citations and often provides good starting points for great research. The quality of your investigation increases and the round trip time for an inquiry decreases significantly with Wikipedia around. There would probably be several points on Wednesday where without an archive I'd feel really frustrated by not being able to look up a reference on Wikipedia. I'd get by without it, but I'd sorely miss it. Edit: And, to be fair, not having reddit or icanhascheezeburger wouldn't sting nearly as much missing Wikipedia would.