Using Wiki in Class

This semester we have being working on a Wikipedia topic about something we love to do or a major that we a wanting to pursue. It's kinda hard to do it because Wikipedia is not a very trust worthy site. It is also not allowed in papers. So, in all honesty I don't know why we are doing this with Wikipedia. Although it was fun talking about something that happened with me and had a great time doing, just using Wikipedia didn't feel right