Does Wiki Travel Work?

I dig the idea of a totally-democratized travel guide, written and edited by travelers like you and me. In the words of WikiTravel:

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 7,561 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.

But is it reliable and trust-worthy?