A person who updates Wikipedia immediately after a breaking news story regardless of how mundane and/or apocryphal it may be.
Derived from Wikipedia (a Web site that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users) and Pedant (a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning).
Derived from Wikipedia (a Web site that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users) and Pedant (a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning).
You mean to tell me you were online Saturday night at midnight updating Wikipedia's Scotty Bowman entry after rumours of his impending hiring by the Toronto Maple Leafs? Man, you're not only a wikipedant, you are a loser!
by tim13 August 5, 2007
wik-ee-ped-nt (n.)
1. a person who is excessively concerned with looking up minor details and rules on wikis (notably Wikipedia) or with displaying their internet-learning, esp. when it has just been learned.
2. a person who adheres rigidly to the content of wiki pages without regard to common sense.
3. a person who is v. ostentatious or condescending when engaged in the above behavior.
Other forms: wikipedantic (adj.), wikipedantry (n., an example of wikipedantic behavior)
1. a person who is excessively concerned with looking up minor details and rules on wikis (notably Wikipedia) or with displaying their internet-learning, esp. when it has just been learned.
2. a person who adheres rigidly to the content of wiki pages without regard to common sense.
3. a person who is v. ostentatious or condescending when engaged in the above behavior.
Other forms: wikipedantic (adj.), wikipedantry (n., an example of wikipedantic behavior)
by Shaestorms May 2, 2014
by hodags1966 June 10, 2020
One who crawls around wikipedia mercilessly editing and pointing out inacuracies of articles, esp. those that nobody cares about.
Wikipede: Good God! Somebody didn't cite their sources in the article about the 1972 Slovakian election!
by Skeleton Kiss October 18, 2008
A virtual disease normally contracted as a result of repeated and unnecessary editing of wikipedia/blog entries and content. Also see god complex.
by nveselin January 21, 2006
The force that resists the importation of knowledge into a wiki, with especial reference to Wikipedia.
The wikipedance of a wiki channel varies as the ratio of the effective electuremotive force to the effective current of communication.
by Jonny Cache May 14, 2007
A cyber disease in which a Wikipedia surfer tries to avoid Wikarpal Tunnel Syndrome by "ctrl-clicking" the blue reference links which appear as tabs within their browser, and inadvertently creates too many tabs. Symptoms include complete confusion and the reading of information with the mistaken understanding as to what topic the information pertains to.
I opened so many tabs the other day that I almost crashed my browser. I must suffer from a bad case of Wikipeditis.
by Neonym August 31, 2009