Wonkypedia

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1. derogatoryslangWikipedia.

   > Well, so says the Wikipedia (and we know how reliable that is). Good call. Anything I see in Wonkypedia I always verify elsewhere.

   2006 August 1, Phil Carmody, “Apple II Debugger”, in alt.lang.asm (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2025

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   According to wonkypedia^([sic]) it's an urban myth, and was really said by an inexperienced leftpondian sent over to cover a by-election in some godforsaken northern hole in the eighties.

   2007 March 12, Dave, “Re: Recovery, just not the normal sort”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2025

   And for all the topnotchery of these programmers, their best efforts on half of all searches turn out only wonkypedia^([sic]) pages, and (usually unattributed, so not easily filterable to the end user) outdated copies of wonkypedia.

   2007 April 19, Richard Bos, “Recruiters who place people first...”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2025

   I suspect Wonkypedia raises a lot by selling content. There are lots of books on sale that are basically printouts of Wonkypedia pages, I presume that pay to use it though of course the people who contributed the pages to Wonkypedia don't get anything.

   2019 July 22, MB, “New BBC soap”, in uk.tech.broadcast (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2025

   According to Wonkypedia: "In October 1886, Scotsman David Danskin and fifteen fellow munitions workers in Woolwich formed Dial Square Football Club, named after a workshop at the heart of the Royal Arsenal complex.[…]"

   2024 January 17, Roland Perry, “The Register reprises arguments about use of AI in legal work”, in uk.legal.moderated (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2025