Thought you all would find this amusing - Jeremey Wagstaff, WSJ tech columnist, had a great piece about the Wikipedia as a new cliche...
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2005/09/the_new_cliche_.html
The New Cliche: "It's the Wikipedia of..."
You know something has arrived when it's used to describe a phenomenon. Or what people hope will be a phenomenon. Here's a sampling:
* Laptops This from Nicholas Negroponte, describing his $100 laptop for the developing world (via Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth): "It's the Wikipedia equivalent (of hardware)," he said, describing the spirit of the laptop initiative.
* Gasbuddy Poster at ezboard: "It's the Wikipedia of Gas pumps. I use it whenever I need gas. I can't believe I forgot about it until now."
* New York Times — This from a Xanga blogger: "It's the Wikipedia of newspapers: great resource with plenty of interesting but useless content. For goodness' sake, it's a newspaper, not Cosmo Girl."
* The UK Good Food/Good Pub guide, described on Wikipedia chat as "It's the wikipedia of food guides"
* Urban Dictionary — described by this blogger as "the Wikipedia of the streets beyach!"
* Sushi World Guide — "it seems the community is still growing. It is the 'Wikipedia of Sushi'.
* Pure Energy Systems – " We will be the Wikipedia of alternate energy technology."
* Wondir — hailed on the unofficial google blog as "the Wikipedia of answer sites"
* Dermatlas — described here as "the Wikipedia of dermatology atlases"
* Math World — described here as "the wikipedia of math"
* GuitarWiki — described by a visitor as possibly becoming "the Wikipedia of the guitar world"