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Noun. When you find a concept that a person who is brilliant wrote, that you don't understand. You open the wikipedia article about that concept, and open tabs in your browser for all of the links in that wikipedia article that you also don't understand. Eventually, you have 25 tabs open and you hit the terminal point where you understand, then you work your way backwards through the other 24 tabs until you understand it all. Choose your own adventure books were books that had many possible endings depending on the pages you chose. They were entertainment circa 1985.
How does MD5 hashing work? It uses one way functions...How do one way functions work? Uh oh, time for a wikipedia choose your own adventure.
Wikipedia is named after the man himself, Elijah Joyce. Known for his role in using the platform while eating dinner.
"Hey man, you should look up the Elijah Joyce Wikipedia article for it."
Wikipedianote 3 is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.34 It consistently ranks as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 it is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush.5 Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people.6
Initially only available in English, editions in other languages were quickly developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023.7W 1 Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.8
It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism).910
This article was copied from Wikipedia, it is only a small parrt of the article. Even the first part was too long so i had to delete 458 words.
Student: I used Wikipedia to do my homework
Teacher: Oh yes, I heard it was a credible source
A website run by conspiracy theorists that is the biggest spammer of the Internet.
Is that a fact or is that something you read on Wikipedia.
You're such a Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpi diə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪki-/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ee-) is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020.3 Featuring no ads, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.
You're being such a Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpi diə/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪki-/ (About this soundlisten) wik-ee-) is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020.3 Featuring no ads, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.
The most holy and reliable font of knowledge mercifully forsaken to us by the redeemer Jim Wales.
Teacher: it says in your essay that ammonia was first artificially formed in a heat / pressure equilibrium monitored spherical container from the principle ingredients of ammo and...
Student: ah, that would the part I ripped of wikipedia...