Wikipedia and Wrongplanet. Same abbreviation.

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26 Jul 2024, 10:34 am

They have the same abbreviation. WP.

When I first came to Wrongplanet I would see WP in posts and sometimes mistake it for referring to Wikipedia.

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26 Jul 2024, 11:02 am

Well, I can them The Wiki and WP Forum respectively to avoid confusion.

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26 Jul 2024, 11:18 am

I even turn it into a verb, and say "I wikied the topic". If you can "Google" something than why not also "Wiki" it?

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26 Jul 2024, 3:12 pm

So does "Washington Post", "Wordpress" and "Warsaw Pact". The first is a newspaper, the second is a text app, and the latter is the now defunct alliance of Soviet dominated countries in eastern Europe.

So...BFD!! !! !

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26 Jul 2024, 3:15 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

So does "Wordpress" and so does "Warsaw Pact". The former is a text app, and the latter is the now defunct alliance of Soviet dominated countries in eastern Europe.

So...BFD!! ! ! !

Therefore Wikipedia is actually a Bolshevik plot to socialize encyclopedia access.

Probably so the aliens can steal our knowledge. :nerdy:

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26 Jul 2024, 3:20 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

So does "Wordpress" and so does "Warsaw Pact". The former is a text app, and the latter is the now defunct alliance of Soviet dominated countries in eastern Europe.

So...BFD!! ! ! !

Therefore Wikipedia is actually a Bolshevik plot to socialize encyclopedia access.

Probably so the aliens can steal our knowledge. :nerdy:

Steal knowledge from...US Earthlings ????

I dont think so...

https://youtu.be/nDKDBd22lNM

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27 Jul 2024, 11:20 am

I googled WP abbreviation & my results at the top said WordPress, White People, Well Played, Wrong Person, & Weather Permitting.

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27 Jul 2024, 9:05 pm

But we have the better site, am I right?

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27 Jul 2024, 9:08 pm

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Wrong Planet vs Wikipedia?

Peaches to pears. The site do different things that cant be compared.

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