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Meaning of Wackopedia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Wikipedia.

derogatory, slang

Examples

“> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wackopedia!”
“What a source, 'Wackopedia'”
“>> Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site […] Didn't we have some fun on "Wackopedia" last year? I remember it really pissed the f'loons off good.”
“> Conservative Christian bias. Rather severe. Their list of "Bias in > Wikipedia" starts off showing their bias pretty clearly, and just keeps > going. […] Wackopedia ?”
“>According to Wikipedia: Nobody cares about Wackopedia.”
“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes. -- Wackopedia”
“In this one hour podcast academic Philosopher of Mind, Keyvān Yaḥyāʾī, and Waḥīd Azal discuss the manipulation of Wikipedia and its entries by the ad hoc Wikipedia taskforce of the Baha’i Internet Agency ([…]).”
“> According to the first woman to win the Abel Prize (Karen Uhlenbeck), she warns against Wackopedia (her own words!). […] Uhlenbeck is unaware that Wackopedia is run by her colleagues in mainstream universities. "...and let me tell you, don't trust Wackopedia. The university web sites are far more reliable."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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