when a movie or show is so bad, long, or gruesome you quit and just read the plot summary on wikipedia instead
by sureidid January 28, 2024
Something that has enough importance to actually be on Wikipedia, in contrast to what you can find no trace of on there. Hence, "worthy of Wikipedia," or Wikipedia-worthy. Since users from across the world can edit or add to Wikipedia, the lack of information on a specific topic marks its sheer unimportance or obscurity.
Person 1: Hey, listen to this band, it's great.
Person 2: Are you kidding me? It's not Wikipedia-worthy; I just checked.
Person 1: Come on, man, give it a try. No one knows who they are, but they're so awesome.
Person 2: Are you kidding me? It's not Wikipedia-worthy; I just checked.
Person 1: Come on, man, give it a try. No one knows who they are, but they're so awesome.
by RealTawk November 21, 2010
by Vtgcycvttvctt June 05, 2022
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
by subway572 October 15, 2022
Wikipedia is named after the man himself, Elijah Joyce. Known for his role in using the platform while eating dinner.
by Holistic. November 11, 2022
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
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.
by naturally idiotic February 12, 2024
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"
Me: "Ok ill open wikipedia"
Teacher: Don't use that! they can edit information"
by Blaze, Agent Blaze . . . August 10, 2020