Meaning of Wikipedia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia.
   alt-of
2. A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
3. A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.
4. The community that develops Wikipedia.
   metonymically
5. A wiki or similar collaborative database, especially one that is also an encyclopaedia.
6. A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).
7. An article or page on Wikipedia.
   colloquial
8. A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.
   colloquial, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“He joined Wikipedia two years ago.”

“Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia”

“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.”

“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.”

“Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.”

“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. […]”

“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”

“"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."”

“[…] 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.”

“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."”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

“And it is so entertaining when he shares his stories about the other great traders he knows. He is a Wikipedia of trading anecdotes.”

“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.”

“Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give⟳ anybody a run⟳ for the money with music trivia.”

“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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