wikipedia snowball

Like a snowball rolling down a mountain, growing ever larger as it continues toward the bottom, a wikipedia snowball occurs when one researches something on the wikipedia, only to then click link after link into subsequent articles of interest until, suddenly, several hours have passed.

Jim: "I'm sorry I'm late, I got caught in a wikipedia snowball. I was looking for information on the new James Bond movie and suddenly four hours had passed. On the bright side, now I know what happens in Marvel Zombies, I can tell you how astronomers gauge the temperature of stars, and why World War I started."

Jim's Boss: "You're still fired."

Jim: "Fuck."

wikipedia snowball by gadiv March 20, 2008

wikipedia bender 

An hours-long plumbing of the depths of Wikipedia. One interesting article links to another and before you know it you've wasted the whole day. Often facilitated by mild stimulants, such as caffeine.

I just wanted to know the difference between bourbon and whiskey. The next thing I knew, my browser had dozens of tabs open on topics including Aegeus the goat-man, the 1932 Summer Olympics, and a list of the tallest structures in Norway. I was on a wikipedia bender.

wikipedia bender by double butt September 30, 2010

wikipedia troll 

wikipedia troll is an administrator who does nothing useful in life except to troll wikipedia looking for edits to revert they dont like slapping editors they dont like with false sock poppet and vandalism allegations and blocking editors for punitive unacceptable reasons

vanjani that wikipedia troll undone all of my wikipedia edits and blocked me from wikipedia for sock poppet and vandalism allegations bullcrap totally unacceptable

wikipedia troll by littlejimmie March 14, 2019

Wikipedia Editors 

Possibly the most sensitive group of people on the internet. They're very territorial about the stuff that they write on an article, and anyone who challenges them with corrections to something they wrote will be regarded by the website's terms as "Vandals". And they'll then try to get you banned from editing or posting anything to the site.

I once made a correction to something on Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia Editors work that I changed reported me and got me banned by claiming that I was Vandalizing the article.

Wikipedia Editors by mrkvlt March 16, 2019

wikipedia 

Savior of high school students everywhere

Example? Pretty much every paper I've decided to hand in.

wikipedia by AnWa February 27, 2005

Wikipedia Response 

When you respond to a person's status or wall post with a quote from Wikipedia relating to part of the person's post. The more obscure, the better.

(John Blumberg) finds essays on john lock's theories less than interesting

(Ben Jones) Johnathan "John" Locke is a fictional character played by Terry O'Quinn on the ABC television series Lost. In 2007, O'Quinn won the Emmy award for acting in a supporting role for his portrayal of Locke.1

(John Blumberg) you're such a gay

(Ben Jones) The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid-20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637.1

(John Blumberg) i'm being serious, that's quite annoying

(Ben Jones) "Serious" is the 22nd single by Duran Duran. It was released 1 October 1990 as the second single from the Liberty album.

(John Blumberg) are you just using wikipedia response

(Ben Jones) The Jordan University of Science and Technology (Arabic: جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا الأردنية‎), often abbreviated JUST, is a comprehensive, state-supported university located outside of Irbid at Ar Ramtha region, in northern Jordan.

etc.

(Etcetera is a female feline character in Cats, the musical play based primarily on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Primarily a dancer, she is one of the chorus line kittens in the tribe of the Jellicle cats.)

Wikipedia Response by pigaloo April 12, 2010

six degrees of wikipedia 

The theory that any two subjects on the wikipedia are connected in some way by clicking on the links of the articles.

An example of the six degrees of wikipedia would be something like going from Kevin Bacon to Entertainment Weekly to Sean Connery etc, etc.

six degrees of wikipedia by Sholom22 November 11, 2006