Wikipedia for certain topic is often just as inscrutable as papers would be. I have no idea why this is, but my guess is that itβs written by people with passing interest in the field who lack the experience to effectively distill their knowledge like paper authors might.
Wikipedia has been a godsend for me, to be able to understand core principles without having to wade through what seems to be obfuscated English in order to hide something relatively trivial at the heart of the document.