Wikipedia

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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:

Sirius is 8.6 light years away / Arcturus is 37 / The past is the past and it's here to stay / Wikipedia is Heaven / When you don't want to remember no more / On the far side of the morning

2013, “We Real Cool”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

"Cottagecore" refers to an internet aesthetic that, according to Wikipedia, "celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts such as foraging, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar nostalgic aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, farmcore, goblincore, and faeriecore."

2020 September 15, Stephanie Osmanski, “What Is the Cottagecore Aesthetic? How T.Swift, Animal Crossing & COVID Are Involved”, in Parade, archived from the original on 2020-09-26:

[…] we could be on the cusp of a genuine technological revolution where systems like GPT-3 replace search engines or Wikipedia as our default resource for discovering information.

2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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

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.

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."

(metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.

(astronomy) A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

Wikipedias (plural)
wikipedia (alternative)
Wikipaedia (alternative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits
Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)bor.
New Latin encyclopaedīabor.
English encyclopediablend.
English Wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.


Wikipedia

There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.

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

A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.

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

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:

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

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:

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:

(colloquial) An article or page on Wikipedia.

Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.

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:

(figuratively, colloquial) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.


Wikipedia

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):

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:

(intransitive, colloquial) To consult Wikipedia for information.

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:

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:

[…] 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 2024-07-21:

(transitive, colloquial) To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.

en-verb

Wikipedia (third-person singular simple present Wikipedias, present participle Wikipediaing, simple past and past participle Wikipediaed)

Wikipedias (present singular third-person)
Wikipediaing (participle present)
Wikipediaed (participle past)
Wikipediaed (past)
wikipedia (alternative)
Wikipaedia (alternative)