Contextualizebeta

Wikipedia

name
/ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdɪə/UK/ˌwɪ.kiˈpidi.ə/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwikider. English wiki Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Ancient Greek ἐν (en) Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-) Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios) Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos) Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der. Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs) Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō) Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā) Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)bor. New Latin encyclopaedīalbor. English encyclopedia blend English Wikipedia Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001. By surface analysis, wiki + -pedia.

  1. derived from ἐγκύκλιος
  2. derived from ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ — “education in the circle of arts and sciences”
  3. borrowed from encyclopēdīa, encyclopaedīa — “general education”
  4. compounded as wikipedia — “wiki + encyclopedia”

Definitions

  1. A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia…

    A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

    • He joined Wikipedia two years ago.
    • Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.

  2. The community that develops Wikipedia.

    • 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.

  3. A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. 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.
      • 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.

    3. An article or page on Wikipedia.

      • He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.

    4. A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge.

      • Her mind was a Wikipedia of useless information.
      • We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with a wikipedia.
      • And it is so entertaining when he shares his stories about the other great traders he knows. He is a Wikipedia of trading anecdotes.

    5. To consult Wikipedia for information.

      • Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]
      • Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?
      • A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.

    6. 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?
      • 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.
      • That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.

    7. Alternative letter-case form of Wikipedia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Wikipedia. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01wikipedia02main-belt03belt04motion05show06true07positive08laid09oriented

A definitional loop anchored at wikipedia. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at wikipedia

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA