Wikipedia:What it claims to be

Wikipedia is designed as an encyclopedia. But what it claims to be is a much broader list of things, some social, some technological, and some strange.

Wikipedia's editors have no right to claim that it is not any thing that it's own articles claim it to be - if there was legitimacy to denying such a claim, then they presumably would have to edit the article making the claim to remove or qualify it. Failing that, they have no right to complain about it here. The following comprehensive list of claims made about Wikipedia in standing articles is intended to guide the evolution of the project, and so must be kept accurate:

Claims about what Wikipedia is, and what functions it serves, or concepts it exemplifies, include at least the following:

• an encyclopedia
• an idiom dictionary
• a cookbook
• a news source
• ...

For a complete list including all perspectives, more neutral is it is not subject to as much censorship, see Wikipedia:What it thinks it is.