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Wikipedia

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English

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
 
The logo of Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Polynesian *witi
    Hawaiian wiki
    Hawaiian wikiwikider.
    English wikiblend.
    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 (enkúklios)
    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)der.
    English Wikipedia

    Blend of wiki +‎ encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdɪə/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˌwɪ.kiˈpiːdi.ə/, /ˌwɪkəˈpiːdi.ə/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -iːdiə
    • Hyphenation: Wi‧ki‧ped‧ia

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

    2. A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
      • 2006, “White & Nerdy”, in Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by “Weird Al” Yankovic:
        Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia
      • 2007 April 5, Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, “The Negotiation”, in The Office, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Michael Scott (Steve Carell):
        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.
      • 2008 April 27, Jeff Westbrook, “Apocalypse Cow”, in The Simpsons, season 19, episode 17:
        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.
      • 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[1]:
        Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.
      • 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:
        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. […]
      • 2013, “We Real Cool”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
        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
      • 2020 September 15, Stephanie Osmanski, “What Is the Cottagecore Aesthetic? How T.Swift, Animal Crossing & COVID Are Involved”, in Parade‎[2], archived from the original on 26 September 2020:
        "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."
      • 2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN:
        […] 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.
    3. (metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.
      • 2011 May 23, The New York Times:
        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 January 19, Reuters:
        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."
    4. (astronomy) A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

    Derived terms

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    Translations

    Noun

    Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

     
    The label of a DVD version of the German Wikipedia
    1. A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.
      There are over five million articles on the English Wikipedia.
      • 2005 December 14, Financial Times:
        Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
    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.
      • 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.
    3. (colloquial) An article or page on Wikipedia.
      • 2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)‎[4]performed by Randy Rainbow:
        He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.
      • 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation‎[5], Random House, →ISBN:
        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 […]
    4. (figuratively, colloquial) 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.
      • 2014, Bill Peel, Walt Larimore, Workplace Grace: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work, 2nd edition, Longview, TX: LeTourneau Press, →ISBN, page 147:
        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.

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    Verb

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

    1. (intransitive, colloquial) To consult Wikipedia for information.
      • 2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, “Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?”, in rec.sport.soccer‎[6] (Usenet):
        Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]
      • 2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science‎[7] (Usenet):
        Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?
      • 2021, Michael Burrows, Where the Line Breaks, Fremantle Press, →ISBN:
        A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.
      • 2021, Mike Roe, quoting Tami Sagher, The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT‎[8], Abrams, →ISBN:
        I mean, honestly, it was me doing some Wikipediaing.
    2. (transitive, colloquial) To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.
      • 2006 November 17, Paula Zahn Now‎[9], spoken by Rachel Maddow, CNN:
        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, 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”, in CraziestGadgets.com‎[10]:
        That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.
      • 2010, Rachel Cohn, chapter 3, in Very Lefreak, Random House, →ISBN:
        […] 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) […]
      • 2013, Dave Cole, Straight A's, spoken by Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart):
        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.
      • 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[11], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-21:
        Honestly, I had to Wikipedia him, but he seems all right.

    Further reading

    Danish

     
    Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia da

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia (genitive Wikipedias)

    1. Wikipedia

    Derived terms

    Noun

    Wikipedia c (singular definite Wikipediaen, plural indefinite Wikipediaer)

    1. Wikipedia (a version of the encyclopedia project)

    Declension

    Declension of Wikipedia
    common
    gender     		Singular Plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative Wikipedia Wikipediaen Wikipediaer Wikipediaerne
    genitive Wikipedias Wikipediaens Wikipediaers Wikipediaernes

    Dutch

     
    Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia nl

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˌʋɪkiˈpeːdiaː/, [-dijaː]
    • Audio:(file)

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia c

    1. Wikipedia

    German

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [vɪ.kiˈpeː.di.a], [vɪ.kɪˈpʰeː.dja]
    • Audio:(file)
    • Audio:(file)

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia f (genitive Wikipedias or Wikipedia, plural Wikipedias)

    1. Wikipedia

    See also

    Further reading

    • “Wikipedia” in Duden online
    • “Wikipedia” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

    Icelandic

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia f (proper noun, genitive singular Wikipediu)

    1. Wikipedia

    Declension

    Declension of Wikipedia (sg-only feminine)
    indefinite singular
    nominative Wikipedia
    accusative Wikipediu
    dative Wikipediu
    genitive Wikipediu

    Italian

     
    Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia it

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English Wikipedia, blend of Hawaiian wiki (“speedy”) + English encyclopedia. By surface analysis, Hawaiian wiki +‎ -pedia (“-pedia”).

    Pronunciation

    • (standard) IPA(key): /wi.kiˈpɛ.dja/
      • Rhymes: -ɛdja
      • Hyphenation: Wi‧ki‧pè‧dia
    • (alternative) IPA(key): /vi.kiˈpɛ.dja/, /wi.ki.peˈdi.a/, /vi.ki.peˈdi.a/
      • Rhymes: -ɛdja, -ia
      • Hyphenation: Wi‧ki‧pe‧dì‧a
    • (approximation of the English) IPA(key): /wi.kiˈpi.dja/

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia f

    1. Wikipedia
      la Wikipedia in lingua italiana/inglese/spagnola ― the Wikipedia in Italian/English/Spanish language

    Japanese

     
    Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia ja

    Romanization

    Wikipedia

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ウィキペディア

    Limburgish

     
    Limburgish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia li

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [wi˧ɡəˈpeːədia̯]

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia

    1. Wikipedia

    Inflection

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    Polish

     
    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia pl
     
    Wikipedia

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /vi.kiˈpɛ.dja/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛdja
    • Syllabification: Wi‧ki‧pe‧dia

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia f

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

    Declension

    Declension of Wikipedia
    singular plural
    nominative Wikipedia Wikipedie
    genitive Wikipedii Wikipedii/Wikipedyj (archaic)
    dative Wikipedii Wikipediom
    accusative Wikipedię Wikipedie
    instrumental Wikipedią Wikipediami
    locative Wikipedii Wikipediach
    vocative Wikipedio Wikipedie

    Derived terms

    nouns

    Further reading

    Spanish

     
    Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia es

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /wikiˈpedja/ [wi.kiˈpe.ð̞ja]
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -edja
    • Syllabification: Wi‧ki‧pe‧dia

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia f

    1. Wikipedia

    Swedish

     
    Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia sv

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English Wikipedia.

    Proper noun

    Wikipedia n (genitive Wikipedias)

    1. Wikipedia
      Före Wikipedia fanns susning.nu
      Before Wikipedia, there was susning.nu

    See also

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