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Wikicoma

When one begins a wikisearch on wikipedia, and shortly thereafter searches for something else, and something else, and something else. Next thing you know it's 4am and you wonder where the hell your night went.
Dude I went to look up Danica Patrick and next thing i knew it was 4am and I was reading about ancient greece... Total Wikicoma!
by Zeus Kappa Sig March 2, 2009
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wikidetour

A deviation from an original wikipedia look up, and finding something completely unrelated, yet interesting.
While trying to find information on sea monkeys on Wikipedia, I took a wikidetour and discovered that Hawaii used to be called the sandwich islands.
by buckyball March 9, 2009
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wikicrit

one who consults Wikipedia to reinforce a point in a debate but refuse its validity when used against them in a debate as a credible resource.
a man debating sea otter habits tries to use Wikipedia to sway a debate to his favor only to find that Wikipedia had statements contrary to his debate and in reaction, the man dicounts the information obtained calling in to question the validity of the information due to the nature of Wikipedia sources being everyday users is a wikicrit.
by John Dewsnup January 13, 2008
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Wikichaining

Hopping from one internal link to another on Wikipedia to get from an unrelated random article to a pre-selected article in the least amount of links you can. Usually undertaken whilst you should be engaging in other, more relevant activities.
Hey, where's Jon? I wanna Wikichain him. He's a Wikichaining God.
by L05 June 17, 2009
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WikiFucked

The act of accessing Wikipedia with the intention of viewing a page for a few minutes, but then inevitably getting trapped in a hellish jungle of links of information that goes into a paradox and rapes you of hours of your time.
Person 1: Dude, I went on Wikipedia just to read up some musician, but then I ended up reading up on the history of the Roman Empire for 15 hours.

Person 2: Man, you got completely WikiFucked.
by NightFauX September 11, 2010
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Wiki-Pedia-Phile

Someone who refers to Wikipedia's information on every occasion and treat it as their own private gospel.
We don't want Gavin in our quiz team as he is a Wiki-Pedia-Phile and tends to get his questions nearly correct but sadly misses the mark on every occasion.
by Bradford Shopper 2 December 4, 2010
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Wiki-Wiki-Gang-Bang

v. when an initial search for information on a specific topic branches off in multiple directions in a seemingly endless chain of information on several topics that are usually unrelated to your original search.

often used in reference to Wikipedia, where budding curiosity and strategically placed hotlinks can quickly bud into an orgy of interesting but useless articles that you will quickly forget the details of and do a pisspoor job referencing later to friends.
A guy at work made reference to "Learning by Osmosis" which I pretended to find funny when everyone else laughed. When I returned to my desk I Googled "Osmosis"... which took me to "Osmosis Jones" which had a link to "Box Office Bombs" which took me to "Sahara" which lost $121,000,000 gross. I didn't learn anything about Osmosis; it was a total wiki-wiki-gang-bang
by Beta Nerd May 15, 2011
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