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"Going down a wikihole" is a term used to describe the phenomenon in which one opens a wiki article about something cool, clicks on a link to another article about something ever cooler, and eventually comes up for air 6 hours or so later after having clicked on all manner of related cool wiki links. The word is based on "wiki" as in "wikipedia" plus "hole" as in rabbit hole, and is inspired by the notion that wikipedia offers its own highly seductive type of single-user rabbit hole. It is similar in meaning to "wikitrail" but implies a certain loss of control at some point.
Damn! It's already 2 a.m.! I just wanted to look up this one thing about coffee and ended up winding my way through a four-hour wikihole!
wikihole by Pennsylvania Dave July 11, 2011
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Wikiloop 

The vicious, entrapping cycle of clicking intriguing link after intriguing link in Wikipedia.
I only wanted to know what a merkin was, but ended up wasting three hours caught in a wikiloop.
Wikiloop by Bundy Fett March 18, 2007

wikihopping 

Following hyperlinks from topic to topic on Wikipedia as you continually come across concepts you want to explore in more detail. It usually results in simulatenously exploring multiple deep threads of related topics, but ending up in various places far from where you began.
I starting reading about Money Creation on wikipedia, and after wikihopping for an hour ended up reading about famous modern cases of Japanese ritual suicide. True Story.
wikihopping by dodgo December 29, 2008

wikiworthy 

Being of sufficient notability to warrant an entry on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
He became a superstar overnight. With that, he became wikiworthy and the nerds are compiling his life story as we speak.
wikiworthy by capr0c0t February 6, 2010
A website full of user-created how-to's that are either completely inaccurate or stupid.
These are typical wikiHow articles: How to Use the Urban Dictionary (actually exists), How to Search Google (real), etc.
wikiHow by rfrsiopgjdog April 28, 2015
Those that follow the request(s) by Stephen Colbert The Colbert Report blindly changing wikiality to his way of thought ever changing historical truth. Oh well it's a better way to go than what we've been doing ..
Pronouced "WICK-EE-BEAR"
The wikibert comes out and changes reality at the request of it's leader.
wikibert by Jamfetto December 14, 2008