wikiphilosophy
English
editEtymology
editCompound of wiki + philosophy.
Noun
editwikiphilosophy (plural wikiphilosophies)
- (Wikimedia jargon) A philosophy or system of thought pertaining to the editing of Wikipedia.
- 2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:
- Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').
Further reading
edit- Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies on Meta-Wiki.Meta-Wiki