A website used by people in school just to go straight to sources and use that as a source instead, so they won't get in trouble by their stupid teacher in middle/high school
"No Wikipedia, it's not correct!"
"I'll make sure that your body doesn't have any sources"
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.
The thing that gives you (almost) trustable information for work, and what teachers don't allow students to use.
Teacher: "Ok class you can search up the info anywhere"
Me: "Ok ill open wikipedia"
Teacher: Don't use that! they can edit information"
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.
THE SPAWN OF SATAN HIMSELF. DEATH SHALT BE UPON YOU IF YOU USE WIKIPEDIA ON ANY SCHOLARLY ASSIGNMENTS!! JUMP OFF A BRIDGE! SKINNY DIP IN A FLOOD! DIE!!!
"yo, i chatGPT'd my whole assignment."
"I used Wikipedia-"
*pulls out glock and open fires*