wikipedia
see also: Wikipedia
Noun
Wikipedia
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Wikipedia
Noun
wikipedia (plural wikipedias)
- Alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia#English|Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Pronunciation Proper noun
- 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
- (metonymically) 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.
- A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).
- wiki
- Mediawiki
- Wikibooks
- Wikidata
- Wikimedia
- Wikinews
- Wikisource
- Wikispecies
- Wiktionary
- Wikijunior
- French: Wikipédia
- German: Wikipedia
- Italian: Wikipedia
- Portuguese: Wikipédia
- Russian: Википе́дия
- Spanish: Wikipedia
wikipedia (plural wikipedias)
- 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.
- (figuratively) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
- Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.
- A page on Wikipedia.
wikipedia (wikipedias, present participle wikipediaing; past and past participle wikipediaed)
- (colloquial, ambitransitive) 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:[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/17/pzn.01.html ][http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/9a83a0db36532600?q=Wikipediaing ]
- 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,[http://books.google.com/books?id=-1aM7D_ymdAC ][http://www.amazon.com/Roger-Eberts-Movie-Yearbook-2010/dp/B003STCR2E ] 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:[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/17/pzn.01.html ][http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/9a83a0db36532600?q=Wikipediaing ]
- 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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