2006, “White & Nerdy”, inStraight Outta Lynwood, performed by “Weird Al” Yankovic:
Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I editWikipedia
2007 April 5, Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, “The Negotiation”, inThe Office, season 3, episode19, spoken by Michael Scott (Steve Carell):
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.
2008 April 27, Jeff Westbrook, “Apocalypse Cow”, inThe Simpsons, season19, episode17:
Bart: So Dean Martin would show up at the last minute and do everything in just one take? Homer: That's right. Bart: ButWikipedia said he was “passionate about rehearsal.” Homer: Don't you worry aboutWikipedia. We'll change it when we get home.
2011 January 12,Timothy Garton Ash, “We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Civility – translated assavoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" ofWikipedia.
2011, Andrew S. Balian, “Introductory Preface”, inThe Unintended Disservice of Young Earth Science, Charleston, South Carolina: Christian Research Publishers,→ISBN, “Terrible Consequence of YE Denying This Early Church History”, pages28–29:
To see how ghastly things have turned, look at the pages of the highly popularWikipedia. Its free accessibility has made it a very useful and popular Internet resource. Then due to reports byNature in 2005 ofWikipedia’s higher accuracy than online offerings of theEncyclopedia Britannica, theWikipedia has been gaining in respect as a legitimate online reference source.[…]
2013, “We Real Cool”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics),Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
Sirius is 8.6 light years away / Arcturus is 37 / The past is the past and it's here to stay /Wikipedia is Heaven / When you don't want to remember no more / On the far side of the morning
2020 September 15, Stephanie Osmanski, “What Is the Cottagecore Aesthetic? How T.Swift, Animal Crossing & COVID Are Involved”, inParade[2], archived fromthe original on26 September 2020:
"Cottagecore" refers to an internet aesthetic that, according toWikipedia, "celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts such as foraging, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar nostalgic aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, farmcore, goblincore, and faeriecore."
2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, inThe New York Times[3],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on8 July 2022:
[…] we could be on the cusp of a genuine technological revolution where systems like GPT-3 replace search engines orWikipedia as our default resource for discovering information.
Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."
His new project is to create aWikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.
2007, Keith Cary Curtis,After the Software Wars, page166:
Likewise, it is much more important to build a complete set of libraries for all aspects of computing, aWikipedia of free code, than to worry that further language innovation is the gating factor towards any future progress in software.
2008 May, Melissa Wenner, “The Drug Resurrector”, inPopular Science, page41:
The library will function something like aWikipedia 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.
2011, Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon,Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, page155:
And when interesting ideas arose, such as creating aWikipedia of top-secret content for the intelligence community, he provided cover for those ideas to develop.
2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)[4]performed by Randy Rainbow:
He learned a lot of things according to hisWikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.
2021, Megan Nolan,Acts of Desperation[5], Random House,→ISBN:
We spent our days off huddled in blankets and fleeces on our awful bony couch, listening to the radio and writing in our notebooks or sending emails or ‘doing research’, which for me meant reading theWikipedias of lesser-known serial killers[…]
2007, James A Beckford, Jay Demerath,The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page10:
We had no illusions of providing a 360° coverage of the sociology of religion, or of confusing a Handbook with awikipedia.
2013, Mike Bellafiore,The PlayBook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader, page358:
And it is so entertaining when he shares his stories about the other great traders he knows. He is aWikipedia of trading anecdotes.
2013, Anna Mitchell,Just Don't Call Me Ma'am: How I Ditched the South, Forgot My Manners, and Managed to Survive My Twenties with (Most of) My Dig, page207:
While time had given Britney nothing but a befuddling choice for a (now ex-) husband, children, and headaches, my friend had emerged with aWikipedia of online dating information.
2014, LuAnn McLane,Wildflower Wedding: A Cricket Creek Novel:
Her brain was aWikipedia of songs, and she could give anybody a run for the money with music trivia.
2014, Bill Peel, Walt Larimore,Workplace Grace: Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work, 2nd edition, Longview, TX:LeTourneau Press,→ISBN,page147:
God does not call us to be spiritualWikipedias. If we do not know the answers to questions asked, we should say so and offer to research the topic. Our honesty is as important as an excellent answer and reveals that we are still learners.
2006 November 17,Paula Zahn Now[9], spoken byRachel Maddow, CNN:
I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still beWikipeidaing 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, Andrews McMeel Publishing,→ISBN,page363:
He made me curious enough that IWikipediaed 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”, inCraziestGadgets.com[10]:
That’s a true fact, you canWikipedia that shizz.
2010, Rachel Cohn, chapter3, inVery Lefreak, Random House,→ISBN:
[…] 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)[…]
2013, Dave Cole,Straight A's, spoken by Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart):
If youwikipedia "dead", it says that it is the permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain living organisms. What it doesn't tell you is how to cope with that.
