wikipedia

plural wikipedias

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia.

present singular third person wikipedias · participle present wikipediaing · participle past wikipediaed · past wikipediaed

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia.

plural Wikipedias · alternative wikipedia · alternative nonstandard Wikipaedia

1. A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

   He joined Wikipedia two years ago.

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   Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia

   2006, “White & Nerdy”, in Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by “Weird Al” Yankovic

   Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.

   2007 April 5, Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, “The Negotiation”, in The Office, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Michael Scott (Steve Carell)

   Bart: So Dean Martin would show up at the last minute and do everything in just one take? Homer: That's right. Bart: But Wikipedia said he was “passionate about rehearsal.” Homer: Don't you worry about Wikipedia. We'll change it when we get home.

   2008 April 27, Jeff Westbrook, “Apocalypse Cow”, in The Simpsons, season 19, episode 17

   Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.

   2011 January 12, Timothy Garton Ash, “We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility”, in The Guardian

   To see how ghastly things have turned, look at the pages of the highly popular Wikipedia. Its free accessibility has made it a very useful and popular Internet resource. Then due to reports by Nature in 2005 of Wikipedia’s higher accuracy than online offerings of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wikipedia has been gaining in respect as a legitimate online reference source. […]

   2011, Andrew S. Balian, “Introductory Preface”, in The Unintended Disservice of Young Earth Science, Charleston, South Carolina: Christian Research Publishers, →ISBN, “Terrible Consequence of YE Denying This Early Church History”, pages 28–29

2. metonymicallyThe community that develops Wikipedia.

   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.

   2011 May 23, The New York Times

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   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."

   2012 January 19, Reuters

   Synonyms: 'pedia, Wikipedo, WP, W'pedia, Wackopedia, Wackpedia, Wackypedia, Wankipedia

3. astronomyA main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

plural Wikipedias · alternative wikipedia · alternative nonstandard Wikipaedia

1. A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.

   There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.

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   Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.

   2005 December 14, Financial Times

2. A wiki or similar collaborative database, especially one that is also an encyclopaedia.

   His new project is to create a Wikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.

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   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.

   2007, Keith Cary Curtis, After the Software Wars, page 166

   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.

   2008 May, Melissa Wenner, “The Drug Resurrector”, in Popular Science, page 41

   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.

   2011, Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, page 155

   There are rules in TF2 [Team Fortress 2] set around healing redeployed buildings, and not only are they pretty specific and circumstantial, I discovered that buildings have a hidden mechanic that I honestly didn't know existed up until this point, and as far as I know, it isn't even listed on the TF2 Wikipedia.

   2016 March 19, Uncle Dane [pseudonym; Dane Kevin Cook], 1:10 from the start, in Healing Redeploying Buildings: What's The Deal? [Outdated], via YouTube, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2026

3. colloquialAn article or page on Wikipedia.

   He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.

   2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)performed by Randy Rainbow

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   We spent our days off huddled in blankets and fleeces on our awful bony couch, listening to the radio and writing in our notebooks or sending emails or ‘doing research’, which for me meant reading the Wikipedias of lesser-known serial killers[…]

   2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN

4. colloquialfigurativelyA source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.

   Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.

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   We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.

   2007, James A Beckford, Jay Demerath, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 10

   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, Mike Bellafiore, The PlayBook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader, page 358

   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.

   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

   Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia.

   2014, LuAnn McLane, Wildflower Wedding: A Cricket Creek Novel

   God does not call us to be spiritual Wikipedias. If we do not know the answers to questions asked, we should say so and offer to research the topic. Our honesty is as important as an excellent answer and reveals that we are still learners.

   2014, Bill Peel, Walt Larimore, Workplace Grace: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work, 2nd edition, Longview, TX: LeTourneau Press, →ISBN, page 147

present singular third person Wikipedias · participle present Wikipediaing · participle past Wikipediaed · past Wikipediaed · alternative wikipedia · alternative nonstandard Wikipaedia

1. colloquialintransitiveTo consult Wikipedia for information.

   Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]

   2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, “Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet)

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   Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?

   2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet)

   A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.

   2021, Michael Burrows, Where the Line Breaks, Fremantle Press, →ISBN

   I mean, honestly, it was me doing some Wikipediaing.

   2021, Mike Roe, quoting Tami Sagher, The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT, Abrams, →ISBN

2. colloquialtransitiveTo search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.

   That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.

   2010 April 7, Jeff K., “Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords”, in CraziestGadgets.com

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   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?

   2006 November 17, Paula Zahn Now, spoken by Rachel Maddow, CNN

   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.

   2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 363

   […] 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) […]

   2010, Rachel Cohn, chapter 3, in Very Lefreak, Random House, →ISBN

   If you wikipedia "dead", it says that it is the permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain living organisms. What it doesn't tell you is how to cope with that.

   2013, Dave Cole, Straight A's, spoken by Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart)

   Honestly, I had to Wikipedia him, but he seems all right.

   2024 July 20, Ethan Meyers, quoting Isaiah White, “Trump’s return to rally stage met with prayers, excitement and confusion over JD Vance”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2024