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Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpi diə/ (About this soundlisten), /ˌwɪkiˈpi diə/ (About this soundlisten) WIK-ih-PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia based on a model of openly editable and viewable content, a wiki. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web,345 and is one of the most popular websites by Alexa rank.6 It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates on money it receives from donors.789
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.10 Sanger coined its name,1112 as a portmanteau of wikinotes 3 and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 5,767,640 articles,notes 4 the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages14 and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.15
In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica.16 Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.17
Look it up on Wikipedia!
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The free encyclopedia that no one can edit
What? I just got blocked from editing Wikipedia!
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Your lord and savior for schoolwork.
Jake: "Holy shit my essay is due tomorrow.."
*later*
Jake: "I'll be fine, Wikipedia is a good source."
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The website that teachers never let their students use because it’s not reliable
Student 1: May I use Wikipedia please?
Teacher: No it’s not a reliable source
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A fictionalized school of thought made up of students who would rather, or end up by reasons of choice or force, learning a majority of their eduction from the user regulated online wiki dictionary known as Wikipedia.
Additionally, it can be used as a way to brag about one's own self resilience in continuing education despite the accepted system of actually attending an accredited college.
Term coined by Theo Souza.
I don't have enough money for school, nor the interest in wasting the money I have on school, so instead I attend Wikipedia University; and I know more then my college attending counterparts.
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Someone who jumps from page to page on wikipedia forgetting their original search in the pursuit of knowledge.
Boris: So whats the population of Hyvinkää?
Carl: no idea but, did you know that there are twenty different dialects of swedish?
Boris: wtf why are you such a wikipedia tarzan?
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wikipedia is so communist, they keep using BCE dating system.
Yo look, yet another article fucked over by the commies on wikipedia. Wikipedia is communist.
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