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Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

1. A free-content online encyclopedia founded in 2001, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web in a number of languages.
2. 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."

3. (deprecated template usage) (neologism) A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

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Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

1. A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia (a free-content online encyclopedia) in a particular language.

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   • 2005, Financial Times, December 14.

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

2. A wiki or similar collaborative database.

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3. (deprecated template usage) (figuratively) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.

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

1. 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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• Wikipedias in other languages

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia f (proper noun, genitive Wikipedia)

1. (deprecated template usage) (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Wikipedia

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