Wow, I just found Urban Dictionary's wikipedia swarm.
My favorites are wikipause (During a phone call or office conversation, a pregnant moment of silence while someone queries Wikipedia, before announcing a previously-unknown piece of information) and wikipedance (The force that resists the importation of knowledge into a wiki, with especial reference to Wikipedia).
There are also terms for intellectual pwnage (wikifuck, wiki-front) and Wikipedia-inspired offline uses (wikifitti).
Plus, of course, the usual outpouring of anger about article deletion that happens anytime wikipedia is discussed in public (wikinazi, wiki nazi, wikifascist, wikibitch).
Thursday, December 27, 2007
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When there's a long pause before a response from the "Phone a Friend" lifeline on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it's possible the person at the other end of the line is checking Wikipedia. Or they may just be googling the subject and could wind up on some other site.
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