Friday's slang word of the day: crowdsourcing

Today's slang word of the day is crowdsourcing. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.

crowdsourcing

noun - uncountable

• the use of visitors to a website to accomplish some task. For example: the management of information on Wikipedia through its millions of visitors.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  
  Citation from "Crowdsourcing Social Networks to Inform Public Policy", Wired, Eliot Van Buskirk, November 18 2009 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Jun 15 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 18 2009.

Enjoy!

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary

P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)