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Unless you need to cite sources, I do not believe that using Wikipedia as a source of information can be adequately concluded as plagiarism.
Wikipedia has approximately 85-95% accuracy on each page individually, with a composite total accuracy somewhere along the lines of 88%. Some sources claim that the total accuracy lies at 90%, as per the Nature study, while others claim that the total accuracy is actually 80%.
As any encyclopedia contains "general knowledge," suffice it to say that using the knowledge within an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia, without copying exact sentence structuring, should be adequate in use with in a paper. Interestingly enough, teachers of mine who insist that any paper influenced by Wikipedia is a guaranteed zero often award me full marks for a paper formed exclusively from Wikipedia and personal background knowledge. No, paraphrasing at a higher degree, rather than simple rearrangement of words in each sentence. Of course, all information should be cross-referenced with a secondary or even tertiary source, in order to ensure full accuracy.
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