What is The Wikipedia Effect?
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The Wikipedia Effect is the tendancy for inquisitive people to become caught in an endless series of pages on the popular open-encyclopedia, "
This tends to happen thanks to Wikipedia's inter-linking model, which links important words in a particular article, to an entire article on that word. The trend can then easily cascade from there, ending in dozens of pages that a user finds interesting.
"Don't you just love The Wikipedia Effect? It sure is a good way to stave off boredom."
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Racist term for what Koreans and Japanese call Chinese.
Japanese racist: "Chukogujin kitanai ne."
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An attempt to divert attention away from a direct question by overloading a response with information (See information overload).
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