How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?

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How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
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/wi.ki.'pi.di.@/
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/vɪ.ki.ˈpeː.di.a/
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/'wI.kI."pi.di.@/ or /'wI.k@."pi.di.@/

The second <i> varies between and [@], just like the first <i> in <politics>.
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Not sure whether my English pronunciation would help (/wIkI'pi:di(j)@/), but in Slovene, most people pronounce it something like /,viki'pedija/, with an actual [e] in the stressed syllable.
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[ˌwɪɡ̊iˈpʰiːjːə(ː)]

(I transcribed it with [ɡ̊] rather than [k] as my particular subdialect tends to lenite unstressed intervocalic /p/ and /k/.)
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Erde wrote:/'wI.kI."pi.di.@/ or /'wI.k@."pi.di.@/
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Also, do you have the merger of /ə ɪ/ in unstressed position? And can /i/ appear fully unstressed (i.e. same length as /ə/)?
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Guitarplayer wrote:/vɪ.ki.ˈpeː.di.a/
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[ˌwɪ.kʰɨˈpʰi.di.jə]
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Tivari wrote:
Erde wrote:/'wI.kI."pi.di.@/ or /'wI.k@."pi.di.@/
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[ʋɪkɪˈpʰɛəðjɒ]
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[wɪkiˈpʰiˑdiɐ]
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[ʋiki'peːdija]

The weirdest way I ever heard someone pronounce it is:

[ʋikipə'dijɑ]

Yes. That's stress on the penultimate syllable.
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I guess something like [wIki''pI:dja] in English, and [viki''pedia] in Hebrew, or, in the more usual fast speech, [vikipedja].
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In English: /wɪkɪˈpidiə/
In Icelandic: /ˈvi:kiˌpʰɛ:dia/
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Normally, for me, [wɪ.kɨˈpi.djə].
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/wɪ.kə'piː.di.jə/
There's probably aspiration on the plosives that I'm not hearing.
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[ˌwɪikiˈpʰɪiɾiə]

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[wI\.kV.pi:.di@]

I don't know if that is truly [V] but it is definitely not a schwa nor [I\].
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[wɪkʰᵻ'pʰidiə]
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[wɪ.kʰɨ.ˈpʰiː.diə]
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[?ikipi:di?] in English, the first ? stands for either [w], [v] or [ʋ], I can't really tell which, and the second ? is a vowel of unknown quality. In Swedish it's [vikipe:dia]. I have no idea of stress placement in either language.
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[wɪ.kɨ'pʰi.di.jə]
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