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Wikipedia

The logo of Wikipedia

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(UK) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdɪə/
(US) enPR: wĭ'kēpēʹdēə, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/
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Audio (UK) (file)
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(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -iːdiə

Proper noun

Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

The free-content online encyclopedia founded in 2001, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web (all language versions confounded).
The community that develops the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- 2011, The Guardian, January 12.
  Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.
- 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."
A heterogeneity which encompasses the Wikipedia encyclopedia in its many language versions and the process of its development.
(deprecated template usage) (neologism) A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

Derived terms

Wikipedian

Related terms

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Translations

online encyclopedia

Afrikaans: Wikipedia
Albanian: Wikipedia
Amharic: ዊኪፔዲያ (wikipediya)
Antillean Creole: Wikipédja
Arabic: ويكيبيديا (ar) f (wikibiidya)
Aragonese: Biquipedia (an)
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ (wīqīpedyāʾ)
Armenian: Վիքիպեդիա (hy) (Vikʻipedia)
Aromanian: Uichipedia
Asturian: Uiquipedia
Azeri: Vikipediya
Basque: Wikipedia (eu)
Belarusian: Вікіпэдыя f (Vikipédyja)
Bengali: উইকিপিডিয়া (bn) (uikipiḍiyā)
Breton: Wikipedia (br)
Bulgarian: Уикипедия (bg) f (Uikipédija)
Burmese: ဝီကီပိဒိယ (wikipidiya)
Catalan: Viquipèdia (ca)
Chechen: Википедийа (Vikipediı̇a)
Cherokee: ᏫᎩᏇᏗᏯ (wigiquediya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 維基百科／维基百科 (Wéijī Bǎikē), 维基百科 (zh) (Wéijībǎikē)

Shanghainese: Vicipaedi
Chuvash: Википеди (Vik̬ip̬edi)
Cornish: Wikipedia
Corsican: Wikipedia
Cree: ᐎᑭᐱᑎᔭ (wikipitiya)
Czech: Wikipedie (cs) f
Danish: Wikipedia (da)
Dutch: Wikipedia (nl)
Esperanto: Vikipedio
Estonian: Vikipeedia (et)
Extremaduran: Güiquipeya f
Faroese: Wikipedia
Finnish: Wikipedia (fi)
Franco-Provençal: Vouiquipèdia
French: Wikipédia (fr) f
Galician: Wikipedia f
Georgian: ვიკიპედია (viḳiṗedia)
German: Wikipedia (de)
Kölsch: Wikkipedija
Greek: Βικιπαίδεια (el) f (Vikipaídeia)
Greenlandic: Wikipedia
Gujarati: વિકિપીડિયા (gu) (vikipīḍiyā)
Hawaiian: 'O Wikipikia
Hebrew: ויקיפדיה (he) (vikipedya)
Hindi: विकिपीडिया (hi) (vikipīḍiyā)
Hungarian: Wikipédia (hu)
Interlingua: Wikipedia
Irish: Vicipéid (ga)
Italian: Wikipedia (it)
(deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
Japanese: ウィキペディア (ja) (Wikipedia)
Kabardian: Уикипедиэ (Wujikipediɛ)
Kannada: ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ (vikipīḍiya)
Kashubian: Wikipedijô
Khmer: វិគីភីឌា (km) (vikiiphiidiaa)
Kinyarwanda: Wikipediya
Korean: 위키백과 (ko) (wikibaek-kwa)
Latin: Vicipaedia
Latvian: Vikipēdija (lv) f, Wikipēdija f
Lithuanian: Vikipedija (lt) f
Macedonian: Википедија f (Vikipédija)
Malay: Wikipedia (ms)
Malayalam: വിക്കിപീടിയ (vikkipīṭiya)
Maltese: Wikipedija (mt)
Mirandese: Biquipédia
Mongolian: Википедиа (Vikipedia)
Nahuatl: Huiquipedia
Navajo: Wikiibíídiiya
Norwegian: Wikipedia (no)
Occitan: Wikipèdia (oc)
Old English: Wikipǣdia f
Ossetian: Википеди (Vikipedi)
Persian: ویکی‌پدیا (fa) (vikipediyâ)
Polish: Wikipedia (pl)
Portuguese: Wikipédia (pt)
Romanian: Wikipedia (ro)
Russian: Википедия (ru) f (Vikipédija)
Sanskrit: विकिपीडिया n (Vikipīḍiyā)
Scots: Wikipædia
Scottish Gaelic: Wikipedia, Uicipeid f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Википедија f, (slang) Њикипедија f (Njikipedija)

Latin: Vikipedija f, Wikipedia f, Wikipedija f, (slang) Njikipedija f
Sicilian: Wikipedia
Slovak: Wikipédia
Slovene: Wikipedíja f
Spanish: Wikipedia (es)
Swedish: Wikipedia (sv) c
Tamil: விக்கிப்பீடியா (ta) (vikkippīṭiyā)
Telugu: వికీపీడియా (te) (vikīpīḍiyā)
Thai: วิกิพีเดีย (th) (wígìpeedia)
Turkish: Vikipedi (tr)
Ukrainian: Вікіпедія (uk) f (Vikipédija)
Urdu: ویکیپیڈیا (vikipidia)
Uyghur: ۋىكىپىدىيە (wikipidiye)
Uzbek: Vikipediya
Vietnamese: Wikipedia (vi)
Volapük: Vükiped (vo)
Võro: Vikipeediä
Welsh: Wicipedia
West Frisian: Wikipedy
Yiddish: וויקיפּעדיע (yi) f (vikipedye)

Noun

Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia (a free-content online encyclopedia) in a particular language.
- 2005, Financial Times, December 14.
  Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
- There are over three million articles on the English Wikipedia.
(deprecated template usage) (figuratively) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
- 2009, Baze Mpinja, "Six Beauty Secrets Every Model Knows", Glamour magazine on Msn.com
  Rules and insights from some of the hottest new faces in the biz—they’re walking Wikipedias of hair, skin and makeup knowledge.

Translations

source of abundant knowledge

Finnish: tietosanakirja (fi)
(deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

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

To consult Wikipedia for information.
1. 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?
2. Used with an object denoting the information sought or obtained.
  - 2006 November 17, Rachel Maddow, on Paula Zahn Now:^[1][2]
    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,^[3][4] 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) […]
3. Used with an object denoting the specific article consulted.
  I wikipediaed the article on science and learned about the scientific method.

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