Wikipedia has significant potential for classroom use, especially in humanities and social science courses with significant writing components such as research or historiography papers. Analyzing articles or assigning students to edit Wikipedia collaboratively based on course readings are effective in teaching students to evaluate sources critically.
Writing for Wikipedia in larger-scale assignments such as term papers is also very effective. It gives students the opportunity to write something that will be read by broader audience than just a professor or teaching assistant, and emphasizes the proper use of scholarly secondary sources. Wikipedia is also a very convenient forum for giving and receiving feedback from classmates, which can dramatically improve the quality of student writing.