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FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: Internet Community VocabularyCLUSTER: community_nickname

A tongue-in-cheek nickname for a rival or better-known wiki, most often used for Wikipedia by communities on other wikis. In a plainer sense, wiki editors also use the phrase for any different wiki site, as in "copy the template to the other wiki".

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""The other wiki has a longer page on this, but ours has the better plot summary.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wikipedia's own search results show two uses: a joking name for Wikipedia (the TV Tropes site is cited as using it that way) and a neutral pointer to a second wiki in help pages and noticeboards. A 2022 discussion about a redirect for the phrase includes a commenter saying they had never heard Wikipedia called that, so the nickname is community-specific. No dated first use found yet.

FIRST SEEN

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PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2000s-2020s wiki communities

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →

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