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Wikipedist

Wikipedist noun: a Wikipedian (person who contributes to Wikipedia).

Noun

Wikipedist (plural Wikipedists)

  1. (rare) A Wikipedian (person who contributes to Wikipedia).
    • It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.2007, Richard D. North, “Scrap the BBC!”: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free, London: Social Affairs Unit, →ISBN, page 141

Forms of Wikipedist

pluralWikipedists

Origin of Wikipedist

From Wikipedia + -ist, likely by analogy with encyclopedist.

Questions about Wikipedist

What does Wikipedist mean?
Wikipedist means a Wikipedian (person who contributes to Wikipedia).
What part of speech is Wikipedist?
Wikipedist is a noun.
What is the plural of Wikipedist?
The plural of Wikipedist is Wikipedists.

Words near Wikipedist in the dictionary

  1. Wikipedic
  2. Wikipedically
  3. Wikipediholic
  4. Wikipediholics
  5. Wikipediholism
  6. Wikipedist
  7. Wikipedists
  8. wikipedo
  9. Wikipedophile
  10. Wikipedophiles
  11. wikipedos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wikipedist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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