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* [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer]]: Anyone can add anything, whether it's correct or not. Depending on the subject it may be corrected within minutes or it may stay for quite a while before it's noticed and corrected.
* [[Defictionalization]]: Wikipedia has proven ''itself'' correct [http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220 at least once].
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Apparently [http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100803/od_yblog_upshot/fbi-will-fight-valiantly-to-protect-the-integrity-of-its-seal-from-internet-encyclopedians FBI threatened to sue Wikipedia for using its logo].
** Copyright is [[Serious Business]] on Wikipedia. Text copied from a website without permission will be deleted in seconds. An image with invalid copyright information, or one which has not been released under an appropriate license, will be deleted [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria|unless it has a fair use rationale]]. [[Digital Piracy Is Okay|Wikipedia doesn't really pursue copyrights of their own, however.]]
* [[Drive-By Updater]]: In an odd twist, even useful drive-by-edits are sometimes reverted.
* [[Dr. Pedia and Mr. Trope]]
* [[Edit War]]: Due to its size, these are just as likely to occur between administrators as between regular users.
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]
* [[Fancruft]]: [http://xkcd.com/446/ Referenced] by ''[[
* [[Fannage]]: They have, for instance, plot summaries of every single ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode - ''all'' series. Their coverage of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is also impressive, with about the half of the articles on that series rated either "good article" or "featured article". Though in a perfect example of serial deleting in action there's currently a discussion of the idea some guy had to 'merge' (delete) all the Enterprise episode pages so instead of the detailed summaries which currently exist there is a couple of sentences for each.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The wiki craze started here, but this was not the first wiki. The [[Ur Example]] was Ward Cunningham's Portland Pattern Repository.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: And how!
* [[Iconic Logo]]: The puzzle globe dates to 2003; its first iteration had the pieces in different colors and blocks of text, in different languages, on it. Shortly after that, the more familiar version of the globe debuted, with all of the pieces light gray, and each having a letter/glyph on it. It stayed this way until May 2010, when a new version (which, unlike its predecessors, was an actual 3D rendering), with a darker gray, bigger pieces and corrected symbols on two of them, debuted; this is the one pictured above. It was revised again later that month, when the shade of gray was lightened to resemble its predecessor.
* [[Kuudere]]: If anyone's curious, Wikipedia ''does'' have a fun side to it. [[wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia humor|Enjoy]].
* [[Lumper vs. Splitter]]: Or [[wikipedia:
* [[Locked Pages]]: Several forms, often involving different levels of user access required to edit.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid|Defied]] — each article is supposed to stand on its own, and references to "this website" are discouraged.
** In a something of a [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] [[Running Gag]], any article about computers or websites is likely to have Wikipedia mentioned somewhere in examples. Like web browser screenshots showing Wikipedia's main page — or [[Droste Image|the very page about the browser itself]].
* [[Meido]]: The various maintenance bots are sometimes personified as such.
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Yes, they have their own one. In this case: Wikipe-tan.
* [[Our Super Strict Language Policy]]:
* [[Pothole]]: Called a "piped link" over there, and [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Piped link#Intuitiveness|discouraged]].
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Don't stuff up beans up your nose|Defied]].
* [[Serious Business]]: The major two factions on Wikipedia are the Inclusionists and the Deletionists, as mentioned in the introduction. Deletionism was, for some time, the primary school of thought of Wikipedia--even against the wishes of its founders. Just look at the [[Internet Backdraft|flame war]] that kicked up when Jimbo Wales [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-webscout30sep30,0,2828599.story tried to start an article about a South African restaurant], only to have it deleted almost immediately. In addition, reading discussion pages on ''any'' topic is likely to result in a lot of [[Serious Business]].<br /><br />Unfortunately, besides the serial deleters, there's also a phenomenon of 'page hoarders' who will sit on a certain page and revert and delete ''any'' changes made to it, and will spend all day arguing about it until the admins give in to them. Forget [[Wiki Vandal|Wiki Vandals]], ''these guys'' are Wikipedia's biggest problem. [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit|Counter-Vandalism Unit]], seriously, just... take a look at what they made up.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Played straight in some more technical
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: One of the major underlying causes for conflict between Inclusionists and Deletionists, as well as systemic bias (see [[We All Live in America]] below and [[Serious Business]] above). If a Deletionist hasn't heard of something, it's ''obviously'' non-notable.
** Wikipedia's insistence on using freely licensed/public domain material often results in this. For example, photographs of living people must be freely licensed or they get deleted. It also introduces some bias — screenshots of software will show it running on Linux, unless it's Windows-only. Media player screenshots are usually shown playing either ''[[Big Buck Bunny]]'' or ''[[Sintel]]'' (since they are Creative Commons-licensed). Web browsers are shown displaying Wikipedia (as mentioned under Medium Awareness). What is different about this example is that the editors are quite often aware that the material exists — they just aren't allowed to use it.
* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]]: Has been known to cause attempts to invoke this trope.
* [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability]]: ''Utterly'' inverted — at least [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:General notability guideline|in principle]], because [[wikipedia:Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability|enforcement varies]].
* [[Thread Mode]]: The bullet points version is averted hard in articles but played straight on talk pages and deletion process pages. The inline version, not so much.
* [[Trope Codifier]]: The MediaWiki software developed for Wikipedia and the style conventions set there have set audience expectations for reference wikis.
* [[Troll]]: Some people put either totally irrelevant things on the page (sometimes [[Jerkass|wiping the whole page in the process]]) or mess it up by doing the summary wrong.
* [[We All Live in America]]: Many pages can turn into this, deciding that only information pertaining to America is useful. Especially jarring on pages meant for other countries entirely. Amusingly, there's [[wikipedia:Template:globalize|a template specifically for flagging a page as being Americacentric (or Britaincentric, or other part of the world-centric)]]. This can be applied to pages specifically written in reference to the country.<br /><br />They have a phrase for this: Systemic bias. It's not a problem limited only to English Wikipedia articles on North America, Great Britain, and Australia. Any sufficiently developed country with widespread use of English will have a significantly larger group of contributors than its non-English speaking neighbors. Hong Kong, Singapore and India being notable examples
* [[Weasel Words]]: They hate it when it shows up.
* [[Wiki Magic]]: Sometimes played straight, sometimes ''inverted'' with an editor's pet page. Inversions of this have rapidly become a common criticism as Wikipedia's tendency to focus on cutting as much content as possible, instead of adding new content, has increased.
* [[Wiki Vandal]]: Overt vandalization is reverted rapidly - but subtle vandalization has been known to last months on less-travelled pages. One of the common complaints about accuracy aimed at Wikipedia. Some really outrageous claims in articles are often supported by nothing but the "citation" tag.
* [[Wiki Walk]]: See Archive Binge above.
* [[Wikipedia Syntaxer]]: The original and trope namer.
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