If I define 'use' as an only action searching for and finding information, I think people use Wikipedia because it's easy to access and free. They can get any information they want if Wikipedia has. With that being said, the large amount of information that Wikipedia has can be one of the main reasons that people use for searching tools. In fact, we can easily see information/articles on Wikipedia come up at the very first line of our search output when we use search engine. Even though we don't go to Wikipedia directly, we will ended up finding ourselves on Wikipedia.
I still think the main reason that people write and edit on Wikipedia is joy of sharing what they know. It's like the feeling we share what we know with our friends. I guess people want to share that with as many people as possible, and Wikipedia provides a perfect place for that. Also, people might want to contribute sometimes on Wikipedia if they've always taken things from it, maybe because of guiltiness or showing of appreciation, I would say.
Before I edited some articles in Wikipedia, I didn't know why people used Wikipedia. But after I used it, I felt that sharing information with many people was fun and meaningful :)
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