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UD wikipedian

Someone who just copies stuff from wikipedia and post it on urban dictionary.
Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases. As of 2009, the site contains over four million definitions. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors, who tend to be youths rather than adults. Time magazine's Anita Hamilton2 placed the Urban Dictionary on her 50 best websites of 2008 list

example of what a ud wikipedian would post to urban dictionary
by dont put wikipedia ud November 11, 2009
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Professor Wikipedia

A term used by college students to save some embarrassment of telling their professor that they used wikipedia as a source
"Did you hear MAx's excuse for his bad bibliography?"
"No, what'd he put?"
"He listed a Professor Wikipedia lecture on chemistry as one of his sources!"
"Wow. What a lame excuse. The teacher won't buy it."
by Maudlin La An May 4, 2010
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Wikipedia Syndrome

The act of going to a site with the intention of looking up one piece of information, and instead finding yourself on one or more articles that have nothing to do with what you had originally come for. Stems from Wikipedia linking to articles within articles.
by Moatihar January 6, 2009
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wikipedia is your friend

A way to admonish a person who derails an Internet conversation by demanding the definition for commonly used words or phrases instead of taking a minute or two to simply look it up on Wikipedia.
"Last night I was playing WoW with some friends and these two Undead Rogues came out of nowhere and ganked me."
"What the hell is WoW and what is ganking?"
"WoW = World of Warcraft, ganking = player killing. Wikipedia is your friend, dude."
by shigelojoe April 23, 2006
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Wikipedia Limbo

The state of continually following links from page to page on Wikipedia researching topics that grow progressively distant from the original page.
I started out looking for info on wombats and got stuck in wikipedia limbo. Six hours later I was reading about ancient Rome.
by A. M. Delmont December 9, 2008
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wikipedia journey

(n) When you start looking something up on wikipedia (usually something meaningful for a class or work) and end up clicking link after link of related topics in each article, until you've ended up on something completely unrelated and wasted a large amount of time on information you forget 1 hour later.
I started looking up micro albumin but went on a three hour wikipedia journey until I ended up on anal intercourse.
by Kumbo January 10, 2012
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Wikipedia Whore

A person who excessively overuses the website Wikipedia.
Tom: Craig... You're such a Wikipedia Whore! How the hell can you overuse Wikipedia! It's userbased!!

Craig: You're userbased!

Tom: That doesn't make any sense ...
by Info-nator October 23, 2007
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