Etymology Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001. By surface analysis, wiki + -pedia.
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A version of the encyclopedia Wikipedia in a particular language.
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.2005 December 14, Financial Times:
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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.
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.2007, Keith Cary Curtis, After the Software Wars, page 166:
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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.2008 May, Melissa Wenner, “The Drug Resurrector”, in Popular Science, page 41:
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.2011, Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, page 155:
There are rules in TF2 [Team Fortress 2] set around healing redeployed buildings, and not only are they pretty specific and circumstantial, I discovered that buildings have a hidden mechanic that I honestly didn't know existed up until this point, and as far as I know, it isn't even listed on the TF2 Wikipedia.2016 March 19, Uncle Dane [pseudonym; Dane Kevin Cook], 1:10 from the start, in Healing Redeploying Buildings: What's The Deal? [Outdated], via YouTube, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2026:
He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:
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[…]2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.2007, James A Beckford, Jay Demerath, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 10:
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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, Mike Bellafiore, The PlayBook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader, page 358:
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.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:
Her brain was a Wikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia.2014, LuAnn McLane, Wildflower Wedding: A Cricket Creek Novel:
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.2014, Bill Peel, Walt Larimore, Workplace Grace: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work, 2nd edition, Longview, TX: LeTourneau Press, →ISBN, page 147:
Wikipedia
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Etymology Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001. By surface analysis, wiki + -pedia.
Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, “Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet):
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A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.2021, Michael Burrows, Where the Line Breaks, Fremantle Press, →ISBN:
I mean, honestly, it was me doing some Wikipediaing.2021, Mike Roe, quoting Tami Sagher, The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT, Abrams, →ISBN:
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Colloquial To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.
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?2006 November 17, Paula Zahn Now, spoken by Rachel Maddow, CNN:
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.2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 363:
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That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.2010 April 7, Jeff K., “Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords”, in CraziestGadgets.com:
[…] 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) […]2010, Rachel Cohn, chapter 3, in Very Lefreak, Random House, →ISBN:
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.2013, Dave Cole, Straight A's, spoken by Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart):
Honestly, I had to Wikipedia him, but he seems all right.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, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2024: