I use to work for a search engine that would have were you could talk to a real person to help you find stuff. Number one thing I was repeatedly asked not to do is add wiki to the list when I offer what I found for them.
It was so bad that we search’s were sent a memo to not attach wiki at all anymore.
There is a small percentage of articles that are watched like a hawk, and they mostly consist of war and anime articles, because that's what the editors are interested in. The stuff that's on there is mostly accurate, but leans heavily to very specific interests.
Try to be unbiased is a fools errand. Heck, trying to be unbiased is a bias in and of itself. The best you can do is use your bias in a constructive and positive way.
You have to understand that wikipedia was not as well moderated in the beginning (which was 2001, btw). It was literally just people posting all sorts of information mixed with opinions and they did not have the structure to quickly monitor or edit it all. It really was untrustworthy at the start because it was just random people writing whatever they felt like about different topics. And kids would go there for reports and quote all sorts of incorrect information that had no source links at the time. So a lot of people held over that view of distrust, even after it became more reputable. It's foolish to think wikipedia is still as untrustworthy, but it's also foolish to think that it was always so organized and official.
TL;DR - Things change.
It was so bad that we search’s were sent a memo to not attach wiki at all anymore.
TL;DR - Things change.