Description Through Obscurity

Wikipedia is an awesome site, and full of loads of information that would otherwise not even fully be available in encyclopedias. It's become the go-to reference for loads of curious people (rightly or not). For me, when I'm looking for the gist of a topic, but am not necessarily interested with all of the profound details, I head over to the Wikipedia. Additionally, if something can be mathematically proven and I can understand the proof, Wikipedia suffices.

Sometimes, however Wikipedia is painfully obscure or erudite. I feel as though some people use it as a way to show off how much they know. For instance, I was looking up electromagnetic flux after a somewhat strange conversation, and so I turned to the Wikipedia to remind myself of what it means. Now, flux was one of my favorite things from my Electricity and Magnetism class, and I knew fundamentally what it was, and I understood it. However, when I checked the Wikipedia page, I found myself lost in a page full of language that I felt had the purpose of taking the average reader, turning his head inside out, and then making it implode into some form of black hole created from the density of sudden influx of confusing language contained within the article.

By the way, don't bother following the link unless you want to risk destroying the world. I suppose I should have mentioned that earlier...