Wikipedia is widely used by students - even in academic writing - despite repeated warnings by teachers, librarians and professors about the potential for bias, inaccuracy and insufficiency. As part of a research- and writing-intensive seminar course called "The Anthropology of Cyberspace," first-year students were asked to critique and then edit Wikipedia entries. This assignment gave students firsthand experience with how Wikipedia content is created and refined, and we analyze the information literacy competencies they learned and demonstrated while doing so.