
	Where results make sense

Topic: Wikipedia is not a dictionary

Related Topics

List of tort topics

List of glossaries

English tort law

List of reference tables

List of basic criminal justice topics

Tort

List of themed timelines

List of tort cases

In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Needs more Objective Clues \| SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
		For a listener to understand a speaker, and for a reader to follow a writer, important words must be defined with semantic precision for communication to be successful.
		Using a dictionary and insisting that the first definition is the only one that really counts is like doing a google search and only ever clicking on the first result.
		As not everyone has a copy of "Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy" on their desk for alternative jargon reference, I propose that you start using the meaning of words as defined by dictionary.com as presumably if a person can get to this site they can also get to dictionary.com.
	www.solopassion.com /node/413 (4863 words)

	apophenia: Academia and Wikipedia
		Posted by: Thad at January 4, 2005 06:48 AM There's also something to be said for the static nature of encylclopedia-like sources (in addition to the fact that they have editors, which tends to be more of a blessing, I'm sure, than a liability).
		Posted by: joe at January 4, 2005 11:00 AM My biggest problem with wikipedia is not that it is not that it for the most part lacks a sanctified peer review.
		Apart from these two issues, this article is breathtakingly daring in its kicking in of open doors: never trust a single source, as astonishing a revelation as the discovery that many students are inclined to be lazy and naive in their research.
	www.zephoria.org /thoughts/archives/2005/01/04/academia_and_wikipedia.html (2561 words)

	Meatball Wiki: WikiPedia
		The founders of WikiPedia are WikiPedia:Jimbo_Wales, owner of the web portal Bomis, and LarrySanger, who served as WikiPedia's chief organizer until March 1, 2002.
		Since WikiPedia uses wiki software, it is similar to the many other wikis on the WorldWideWeb.
		Incidentally at risk of being told off, this link is to a mirrored fixed copy of WikiPedia which I have put up on [fixed reference], not to the live version.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiPedia (1496 words)

	Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If you are interested in using the wiki technology for a collaborative effort on something else, even if it is just a single page, there are many sites that provide wiki hosting (free or for money).
		Such details are, however, very welcome at Wikitravel, but note that due to license incompatibility you cannot copy content wholesale unless you are the copyright holder.
		In difficult cases, straw polls may be conducted to help determine consensus, but are to be used with caution and not to be treated as binding votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not (2975 words)

	Wiki Pedia
		WikiPedia has now been quoted as a source in a major newspaper (is this the first instance?):
		This wiki is a history of computing which includes developing ideas, processes and procedures, while WikiPedia is a record of what has already been and does not have the same sense of evolution.
		There is a legitimate worry that the wikipedia has taken more than one step down the path of an official POV, and has left objective reality out of the debate between the groupthink of the administrators, and the "fringe" views expressed by some newbies.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?WikiPedia (2090 words)

	Wikipedia - Wikipedia
		Tidak ada seseorang pun yang dapat mempunyakan maklumat yang terdapat di dalamnya dan tidak ada artikel yang akan ditamatkan.
		Terdapat banyak usaha yang telah terlibat untuk membuatkannya berbilang bahasa, dan pada Mei 2004 ia telah mengandungi lebih daripada 270,000 artikel dalam Inggeris dan lebih 400,000 dalam semua bahasa yang lain [3].
		Untuk menambahkan kelajuan, muka surat untuk pengguna akan dicachekan di dalam sistem fail sehingga apa yang dirender adalah tidak sah, membolehkan perenderan muka surat untuk diabaikan untuk keseluruhan muka surat yang paling kerap diakses.
	ms.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia (1579 words)

	Wikipedia
		Some participants of wikipedia argue that their experience has shown that over time these drawbacks will be reduced, as the quality and balance of individual articles improves.
		The most widely supported rule is: "If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business." It is perhaps surprising, therefore, that the wiki is as well-disciplined and good-natured as it is. See the policies and guidelines page for more information.
		If you wish to do something with our open content that cannot best be done right here, you may at any time download a nearly-current version of the entire article database to do as you wish with it, within terms of the GFDL.
	www.fastload.org /wi/Wikipedia.html (1497 words)

	Wikipedia: Wikipedia
		The aim is not to write articles from a single objective point of view -- this is a common misunderstanding of the policy -- but rather, to fairly present all views on an issue, attributed to their adherents.
		The project runs on a set of three dedicated servers, which are the original configuration, located in San Diego, and an additional nine dedicated servers, located in Florida.
		Wikisource, a repository of source texts in any language which are either in the public domain or are released under the GFDL.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/wi/wikipedia_1.html (1683 words)

	Dictionary
		A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with its glyph or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages.
		Dictionaries also differ in the degree to which they are encyclopedic, providing considerable background information, illustrations, and the like, or linguistic, concentrating on etymology, nuances of meaning, and quotations demonstrating usage.
		This dictionary uses Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) and WordNet as its sources and is being developed collaboratively under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
	www.factspider.com /di/dictionary.html (821 words)

	WIKIPEDIA
		In May, 2001, a dozen non-English wikipedia were launched (probably in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, German, Esperanto, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, soon joined by Arabic and Hungarian [1], [1]).
		In the same summer, policy and style issues were clarified with the creation of the Manual of Style and various policies and guidelines.
		In December 2002, the sister project Wiktionary was created; it aims to produce a dictionary and thesaurus of the words in all languages.
	www.websters-dictionary-online.org /definition/english/wi/wikipedia.html (2327 words)

	Wikipedia - Uncyclopedia
		Similarly, their Al Gore article states that Al Gore was born to human parents, hiding the reality that he is an android prototype built by the Nike corporation.
		They, however, conveniently change them to exclude information that contradicts their fictional universe – in the case of these templates, known facts that stub authors usually smoke crack and that computers are trying to take over the Earth..
		These "joke deletions" are a fun activity that users play towards each other- whomever writes the cleverest message gets to delete someone else's article, and the author of said article checks up on it only to find it removed, and promptly dies in various fits of laughter.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /uncyclopedia/index.php?title=Wikipedia (2374 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wikipedia
		Vandalism or the minor infraction of policies may result in a warning or temporary block, while long-term or permanent blocks for prolonged and serious infractions are given by Jimmy Wales or, on its English edition, an elected Arbitration Committee.
		Nupedia was described by Sanger as differing from existing encyclopedias in being open content; not having size limitations, as it was on the Internet; and being free of bias, due to its public nature and potentially broad base of contributors.
		These include: Wiktionary, a free dictionary project; Wikibooks, a free textbook project; Wikisource, a free library; Wikiquote, a free compendium of quotations; and Wikinews, a free news source.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wikipedia (8630 words)

	Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The idea of collecting all of the knowledge under a single roof goes back the ancient Library of Alexandria and Pergamon.
		When these rules are violated the community decides on case-by-case basis whether they should be more enforced or not.
		At first it required CamelCase for links; soon it was also to use the current linking method with brackets.
	www.freeglossary.com /Wikipedia (1484 words)

	Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nearly everyone here agrees that in general, stub articles are to be encouraged, provided they meet certain criteria.
		That's probably OK, in most cases, but some view this as either a violation of the WINAD policy, or otherwise meritous of deletion.
		These tend to focus primarily on the immediate family connections (parents, spouses, children and their spouses) of the article subject.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary (685 words)

	Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - TESTVERSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Vandalism is a recognized problem, though it is generally caught and reverted within minutes by users who monitor the recent changes.
		Of course, total agreement is not possible; there are ideologues in the world who will not concede to any presentation other than a forceful statement of their own point of view.
		User requests are passed to a front end layer of six Squid servers; requests that cannot be served from the Squid cache are sent to two load-balancing servers running the perlbal software, which then pass the request to one of the Apache servers for page-rendering from the database.
	www.wissen-im-web.net /wiki/Wikipedia (3538 words)

	Station Information - Lexicography
		Theoretical lexicography is the theory or scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing dictionaries.
		Even though wikipedia is not a dictionary, both of these topics should be most interesting to wikipedians, especially since the art or craft of writing an encyclopedia does not yet have an established name of its own.
		Some use that word as a synonym for theoretical lexicography, others use it for a branch of linguistics pertaining to the treasure of words in a particular language.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lexicography.html (194 words)

	Wikipedia - WikiMac
		It is collaboratively edited and maintained by thousands of users via the wiki software, an opensource program first stated by Ward Cunningham, and it is hosted and supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
		Users specifically don't need to be logged in to make edits, and these so-called anonymous edits make up around 18% of all edits; the user's IP address is used instead of a username, so contributors seeking genuine "anonymity" - as well as other benefits - are generally advised to create an account and log in.
		Cached requests are served by two Squid servers; the new servers are linked via two file system NFS servers (one primary and one backup — the primary NFS server is currently also the email server).
	mac.wikicities.com /wiki/Wikipedia (3122 words)

	Wikipedia:Disambiguation - Simple English Wikipedia
		To conform to our normal naming conventions, the phrase in parentheses should be treated just as any other word in a title: normally lowercase, unless it is a proper noun that always appears capitalized even in running text (such as a book title).
		There is some flexibility in creating the disambiguation page itself, or even whether it is necessary to create one at all.
		Before making a page into a disambiguation page one should first look at each page that links to it (using the "pages that link here" feature of the software) and correct the links as appropriate.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation (1314 words)

	winad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Examples of articles that avoid being dictionary definitions by including "encyclopedic" information: Copra, Castanets, Fuck.
		There are special reference works known as genealogical or, more often, biographical, dictionaries.
		Minor characters may of course be mentioned within other articles (eg Ronald Gay in gay-bashing).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Winad.html (665 words)

	How to build Wikipedia - Meta
		For anyone who wonders if this can be done, just think for a second about how Perl has developed and grown, nurtured by w:Larry Wall.
		A cabal, even an ironic, Usenet-style Cabal (w:TINC), leads slowly to what could be called class distinctions, unless explicit safeguards in the vein of the Bill of Rights are put into place.
		This does allow bad, selfish, or inconsiderate people and groups to not give credit where credit is due: note how the w:GNU Project is ignored by w:Linux partisans, even though the "Linux" operating system (Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, etc.) is really an instance of the GNU operating system.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/How_to_build_Wikipedia (670 words)

	[No title]
		It is a wiki, in that it can be edited by anyone (except for blocked users, and excluding protected pages).
		This is an ongoing problem that can be corrected by active collaboration from people outside of the United States, of whom there are many.
		CamelCase for links; soon it was also possible to use the current linking method that uses double brackets.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Wikipedia (2694 words)

	Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) Information - TextSheet.com
		Easton's Bible Dictionary contains an extensive set of entries used in the Bible, albeit from a 19th century Christian viewpoint.
		This is an article from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
		This article is written from a nineteenth century Christian viewpoint, and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries in Biblical scholarship.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/easton_s_bible_dictionary__1897_.html (247 words)

	Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - Simple English Wikipedia
		Instead, we write about the most common subjects so that people from every language can read and translate the pages easily.
		If a common phrase is used in an article and not many people may know what it means, you should say what it means.
		You can write an article on how a slang phrase came to be, or the culture that uses that slang.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not (1344 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Wikipedia:Find_or_fix_a_stub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Once a stub has been properly expanded and becomes an article rather than just a stub, you or any editor may remove the stub tag from it.
		It is also possible to add a small image to the stub template (the "stub icon").
		If you still wish to use images, apply formatting such as that provided by {{MetaPicstub}} (and remember to use it with the subst: prefix).
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Find_or_fix_a_stub (2034 words)

	Halfbakery: Hot or Not Dictionary
		Hot or Not Dictionary would rate deifinitions rather than pictures of people.
		The Urban Dictionary is an online dictionary that allows users to rate the definition and have a short discussion on the topic at hand...
		Perhaps, if the votes reach some minimum negativity, the font size of that particular definition could be reduced, and then with more negative votes, it would be reduced even more, until eventually, the incomprehensible thing vanished from the dictionary altogether.
	www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Hot_20or_20Not_20Dictionary (846 words)

	Talk:Wiktionary - Meta
		Also, it is common, and very useful for a dictionary to list synonyms and antonyms for a word.
		I have been in recent contact with the project leader of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) which is hosted at http://dict.org.
		A dictionary project, with a list of entries potentially in the millions, and with links in between like this, is too fiddly to work successfully.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Talk:Wiktionary (1532 words)

	Encyclopedia: WP:WI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		External links to commercial organisations are acceptable if they can serve to identify major corporations associated with a topic (see finishing school for an example).
		An article on Paris should mention landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, but not the telephone number of your favorite hotel or the price of a café au lait on the Champs-Elysées.
		Furthermore, the Talk pages associated with an article are for talking about the article, not for conducting the business of the topic of the article.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/WP:WI (2032 words)

	Kayak Wiki: KayakWiki Is Not A Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		So it makes no sense to describe those other, mere dictionary senses of terms in KayakWiki articles (unless, somehow it is important to describe those senses in order to clarify the main topic of the article).
		While on the one hand we are all certainly delighted that KayakWiki is growing in breadth, some (but not all) of us view breadth at the expense of the very notion of what we are working on--an encyclopedia--as a bad idea.
		Since KayakWiki is not a dictionary, it is not necessary to provide definitions for words that are not on-topic to kayaks and kayaking.
	www.kayakforum.com /cgi-sys/cgiwrap/guille/wiki.pl?KayakWiki_Is_Not_A_Dictionary (296 words)

	Talk: Go - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		I agree that articles which merely state dictionary definitions are not suitable for an encyclopedia.
		If there is a page somewhere about Moby's album, or if someone wants to write one, then Go (album) will have to be disambiguated too, I guess.
		Open Encyclopedia is an free extensive encyclopedia service provided by the New Frontier Information Network, a newly launched private company which offers easy access to thousands of online articles, e-books and documentation covering a wide variety of broad topics.
	talk.open-encyclopedia.com /Go (389 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)