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Wikipedia
Wikipedia
English
The logo of Wikipedia
Alternative forms
- wikipedia (when used as a common noun)
- WikiPedia (dated)
Proper noun
Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)
- A free-content online encyclopedia founded in 2001, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web in a number of languages.
- 2011, The Guardian, January 12.
- Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.
- 2011, The Guardian, January 12.
- The community that develops the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- 2011, The New York Times, May 23.
- In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.
- 2012, Reuters, January 19.
- Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."
- 2011, The New York Times, May 23.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (neologism) A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).
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online encyclopedia
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Noun
Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)
The label of a DVD version of the German Wikipedia
- A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia (a free-content online encyclopedia) in a particular language.
- There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.
- 2005, Financial Times, December 14.
- Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
- A wiki or similar collaborative database.
- His new project is to create a Wikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.
- 2007, Keith Cary Curtis, After the Software Wars, page 166:
- Likewise, it is much more important to build a complete set of libraries for all aspects of computing, a Wikipedia of free code, than to worry that further language innovation is the gating factor towards any future progress in software.
- 2008 May, Melissa Wenner, “The Drug Resurrector”, in Popular Science, page 41:
- The library will function something like a Wikipedia of drug discovery, where scientists around the world can contribute to the database and even provide samples or screen drugs themselves, thereby saving millions of dollars on R&D.
- 2011, Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, page 155:
- And when interesting ideas arose, such as creating a Wikipedia of top-secret content for the intelligence community, he provided cover for those ideas to develop.
- (figuratively) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
- Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.
- 2007, James A Beckford, Jay Demerath, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 10:
- We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.
- 2013, Mike Bellafiore, The PlayBook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader, page 358:
- And it is so entertaining when he shares his stories about the other great traders he knows. He is a Wikipedia of trading anecdotes.
- 2013, Anna Mitchell, Just Don't Call Me Ma'am: How I Ditched the South, Forgot My Manners, and Managed to Survive My Twenties with (Most of) My Dig, page 207:
- While time had given Britney nothing but a befuddling choice for a (now ex-) husband, children, and headaches, my friend had emerged with a Wikipedia of online dating information.
- 2014, LuAnn McLane, Wildflower Wedding: A Cricket Creek Novel:
- Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia.
Translations
source of abundant knowledge
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Verb
Wikipedia (third-person singular simple present Wikipedias, present participle Wikipediaing, simple past and past participle Wikipediaed)
- (colloquial) To consult Wikipedia for information.
- Used intransitively.
- 2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, "Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?", in rec.sport.soccer, Usenet:
- Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]
- 2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, "Re: Slow Re-entry", in rec.arts.sf.science, Usenet:
- Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?
- 2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, "Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?", in rec.sport.soccer, Usenet:
- Used with an object denoting the information sought or obtained.
- 2006 November 17, Rachel Maddow, on Paula Zahn Now:
- I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still be Wikipeidaing her, looking her up, trying to figure out exactly why do I know her, what was she in, is she famous?
- 2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7407-8536-8, page 363:
- He made me curious enough that I Wikipediaed Bob Satterfield and found out, yes, he was a real fighter, nicknamed the Bombadier, and was KO'd by the Raging Bull himself in a 1946 fight in Wrigley Field.
- 2010 April 7, "Jeff K.", "Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords" (blog post), in CraziestGadgets.com:
- That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.
- 2010, Rachel Cohn, Very Lefreak, Random House, ISBN 9780375895524, chapter 3:
- […] her mother was "homeschooling" her via the Internet (basically, Wikipediaing the Important Facts from the History of the World, and ordering appropriate-level math textbooks from Amazon) […]
- 2006 November 17, Rachel Maddow, on Paula Zahn Now:
- Used with an object denoting the specific article consulted.
- I wikipediaed the article on science and learned about the scientific method.
- Used intransitively.
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʋɪkiˈpedia]
Etymology
Borrowing from English Wikipedia.
Proper noun
Wikipedia ?
German
Etymology
Borrowing from English Wikipedia.
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Proper noun
Wikipedia f (genitive Wikipedia)
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Wikipedia