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English
Etymology
Blend of Wikipedia + reality, coined by Stephen Colbert 31 July 2006 on his show, The Colbert Report.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
wikiality (usually uncountable, plural wikialities)
- (derogatory) The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.
2006 September 20, Felicia Daniels, “Wikipedia selects Cornell U. page as 'Featured Article'”, in University Wire:A group of undergraduates and alumni combated the backlash of "wikiality" and put their own spin on the facts about Cornell in an article about the University on the Web site Wikipedia.
2007 January 21, Kevin Garcia, “Wikiality is not reality”, in The Brownsville Herald: 2007 January 5, Matt Martin, “Are we best we can be?”, in The Lantern:Yet, this is the wikiality("truth based on consensus rather than fact") of the world, I'm sorry, of America, today
2009, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era, NYU Press, →ISBN:Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception.
See also
References
- ^ Colbert, Stephen (2006 July 31) “The Word - Wikiality”, in The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, retrieved 2010-01-14