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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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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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An informational site that has non credible information.
Wikipedia is the devil. I wrote an essay using it and failed.
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A website that is a cess pool of information that is absolute crap because anybody can edit it at any time
u always get an F when u use wikipedia
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An online encyclopedia. This site is often not encouraged by schools due to the fact it can be edited by anyone with an account. Usually used when you have an argument about something with your friends and need to quickly get an answer to prove them all wrong.
Person 1: Albert Einstein was the president.
Person 2: No he wasn't!
Person 1: Yes he was!
Person2: Fine, I'll look it up on Wikipedia!
by SmartAssBitch-InAction April 20, 2016
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