Wikipedia

ඉංග්‍රීසි

නිරුක්තිය

Blend of wiki +‎ encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.

උච්චාරණය

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌwɪ.kɪˈpiːdɪə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌwɪ.kiˈpiːdi.ə/, /ˌwɪkəˈpiːdi.ə/
ඕඩියෝ (UK): (file)
ඕඩියෝ (US): (file)
Rhymes: -iːdiə
Hyphenation: Wi‧ki‧ped‧ia

සංඥා නාම පදය

Wikipedia (බහුවචන Wikipedias)

සැකිල්ල:trademark An open-content online encyclopedia, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web.
සැකිල්ල:Wiktionary and WMF jargon A version of this encyclopedia in a particular language.
- 2005, Financial Times, December 14.
  Work in the open-source software community or contribute to wikipedias on your favourite subjects.
- There are over three million articles on the English Wikipedia.
An open-content online encyclopedia conglomerate.

Quotations

2006, Cindy Long, "Getting WIKI With It", NEAToday 25 (2): 40 (October)
It’s because of this open editing feature that Wikipedia draws praise, criticism, and, at times, vandals.
2007, The Time Team, Doctor Who Magazine 384: 57 (June)
"He probably looked them up on Wikipedia," suggests Peter.
"That would explain why it’s so inaccurate," sighs Jac.

ව්‍යුත්පන්න යෙදුම්

Wikipedian

ආශ්‍රිත යෙදුම්

Related terms

නාම පදය

(figuratively, colloquial) A source of abundant encyclopedic knowledge; නූතන විශ්වකෝෂය.
- 2009, Baze Mpinja, "Six Beauty Secrets Every Model Knows", Glamour magazine on Msn.com
  Rules and insights from some of the hottest new faces in the biz—they’re walking Wikipedias of hair, skin and makeup knowledge.

ක්‍රියා පදය

Wikipedia (third-person singular simple present Wikipedias, present participle Wikipediaing, simple past and past participle Wikipediaed)

To consult Wikipedia for information.
1. Used intransitively.
  - 2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, "Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?", in rec.sport.soccer, Usenet:
    Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]
  - 2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, "Re: Slow Re-entry", in rec.arts.sf.science, Usenet:
    Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?
2. Used with an object denoting the information sought or obtained.
  - 2006 November 17, Rachel Maddow, on Paula Zahn Now:^[1][2]
    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?
  - 2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010,^[3][4] Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7407-8536-8, page 363:
    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.
  - 2010 April 7, "Jeff K.", "Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords" (blog post), in CraziestGadgets.com:
    That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.
  - 2010, Rachel Cohn, Very Lefreak, Random House, ISBN 9780375895524, chapter 3:
    […] her mother was "homeschooling" her via the Internet (basically, Wikipediaing the Important Facts from the History of the World, and ordering appropriate-level math textbooks from Amazon) […]
3. Used with an object denoting the specific article consulted.
  I wikipediaed the article on science and learned about the scientific method.