Lost In The Wiki's

Going on Wikipedia to search and spending way longer than needed because you click on other names.

Dude, I was going to call you back but I got lost in the wiki's. I was looking up John Goodman and an hour later I found myself at Francis Ford Coppola. Did you know he and Nicholas Cage are related?

by finkers08 September 8, 2011

Fandom wiki's law

There is a Fandom / Wikia wiki for everything you could think of, including YouTube, heffalumps and woozles, The Price is Right, fictional hurricanes, Illumination's "Sing", VeggieTales, VeggieTales fanon, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Windows Media Player's visualization feature, Baldi's Basics, Bob's Burgers, prepaid SIM cards, and Kim Kardashian. Most of them are poorly written and maintained by about two active users per wiki.

"bro I just found the fandom wiki for green-colored 7-segmented lcd displays"
"yea, that's fandom wiki's law for you"

by obscureharrypottercharacter December 29, 2021

Wiki scholar

Someone who thinks they know everything about life even though they've never left the house and experienced anything for themselves. They come off like they're knowledgeable but only for the sole purpose of impressing others. In reality, they're looking up articles on Wikipedia that probably aren't even accurate.

"I know all about the grunge era because I was there when it happened."

"No you weren't, you're just a douchebag Wiki scholar who's never even been outside. Turn off the computer and get a life."

by zongi zong June 30, 2012

wiki surfing

to get hooked into reading wikipedia articles, then clicking on links and reading other articles for no reason

How did I spend my afternoon? Well, I was wiki surfing.

by gorillajack October 3, 2008

wiki-snob

Academics who feel that anything found in the wikipedia is suspect because it wasn't written by a committe of fat-cat, overpaid, grant-hogging professors whose prusuit of pseudo science is endandering science funding everywhere.

Don: Don't cite the wikipedia in Dr. Patterson's class. He's such a wiki-snob that he will trash everything you have to say.

Ron: He's such a crappy teacher that the only way they can get anyone to sign up for his classes is to put "to be announced" on the instructor line of the schedule.

by james savik March 30, 2008

Wiki-surfing

Using the hyperlinks in Wikipedia articles to follow a trail from one subject to another.

I was wiki-surfing today and discovered Godwin's rule.

by Abzeichen April 10, 2019

wiki spiral

Going to a article and finding interesting links, and following links to same site, for a long time, like you were in a trance.

Man, I wikipediaed "Mongolian Grill", and I wiki spiraled for an hour before my boss caught me.

by zzDump October 17, 2009