Barnstar
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.
- 2 A lucky charm resembling a star plate, similar to a horseshoe
- 3 An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.
"There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things."
Example
More examples"There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things."
Etymology
From barn + star. In the wiki sense a reference to the communal practice of barnraising, introduced on the MeatballWiki in the early 2000s and adopted by Wikipedia in 2003.
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