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A wikipedia contributor (often an administrator) who makes it their life's calling to monitor every edit you make and report it, even if nothing is wrong with it.

Many wikifags are also grammar nazis and will report users for vandalism if sentence structure is not to their liking.
"Man, that guy is such a wikifag. He permabanned my ip address, and I didn't even do anything wrong!"

"She is a huge wikifag. Seig heil!"
wikifag by Eliot Spitzley April 1, 2009
A person who references Wikipedia at every possible opportunity, whether their information is wanted or not.
"I mentioned the 5 civilized tribes, and Bob pasted the entry. What a Wikifag."
wikifag by Swoony March 26, 2005

Wikifascist 

(n) - a trolling wikipedia editor who deletes an entry because a 30 second Google search confirmed their sneaking suspicion that such an entry simply Must be fraudulent.
"I posted the newly-discovered Theory of General Relativity on Wikipedia, and some Wikifascist erased it claiming vandalism!"
Wikifascist by Rimonian December 22, 2005

wikifail 

Being failed on a paper/essay/project for using wikipedia as your main source of research.
Jane used wikipedia to write her essay, but her teacher wikifailed her for not having good sources.
wikifail by OmgIconoclast November 4, 2007

Wikifarianism 

An offset of Atheism, the belief that more can be learned from Wikipedia than any religion or God.
Person 1: Yo dude so I heard you're an Atheist?
Person 2: No man I follow Wikifarianism.
Person 1: What the hell does that mean?
Person 2: I worship the sacred scripture of the Random Article page.
Wikifarianism by Goldenx7 June 16, 2009

Wikifari 

A prolonged visit to wikipedia during which contextual links are followed until the user is reading pages that have nothing to do with the original subject they sought. Particularly exciting wikifaris end up coming back to the original page at some point.
OMG! I went on the most incredible wikifari last night! I started with Nirvana, got all the way to osmotic pressure, and then, 5 hours later, I was at Nirvana again!

Man, there's a test coming up, I better go on a wikifari.
Wikifari by Sam Chew Chin November 16, 2006

wikifarming 

Using Wikipedia to unearth tidbits of knowledge for the purpose of bringing them up in conversation, in a despondent effort to make oneself seem smarter.
Typical subjects of wikifarming include theoretical physics, trivia from sitcoms, basic psychology, the works of Nostradamus, Shakespeare's tragedies, statistics from practically any organized sport (most often football or baseball), the Renaissance, and pretty much anything that could make one appear more knowledgeable in front of the right people. Usually fails.
A. "I was doing some research last night, and I found out that any four-dimensional object in four-dimensional space will cast a three-dimensional shadow. Turns out, most physicists agree that little, if anything, can be gained scientifically from assuming the fourth dimension to be time, but rather as another spatial axis, which is how..."

B. "Someone's been wikifarming."