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Wikiplagiarism

When someone defines something on a sight such as Urban Dictionary, or answers a question on Yahoo! Answers that is exactly the same as the previous persons answer. To hide the fact that they did this, they usually add one or two extra words, or paraphrase part of the Definition.
EXAMPLE ONLY, not real UD definition

Chinese

1st definition: Asian People

2nd definition: People who are Asian

Question: What are some good 360 games?

1st Response: Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead 2

2nd Response: MW2, ME2, Halo 3, L4D2 and Assasins Creed 2

Both responses, the second person was Wikiplagiarising(plural for Wikiplagiarism)
by Papperonni March 1, 2010
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wikamnesia

the act of getting lost in the abyss of the internet while researching any topic. typically results in unintentional procrastination.

wikipedia doesn't help this since articles always have a ton of hyperlinks to other wiki articles to define terms, phrases and concepts
Tom: How's the paper on the life of Nikola Tesla?
Me: What? Oh yeah! What am I doing here? I'm looking at a wiki article on electric cars!
Tom: Sounds like wikamnesia.
by kiltlifter December 9, 2009
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wikitrance

a trance-like state in which one goes from a page brought up on wikipedia or sites that are similar and goes from one hyperlink to another and another...until realizing that he/she has wasted a substantial amount of time and has gone completely off task.
hey bro, i was doing research for my history project on the Cuban Missile Crisis on wikipedia and went into a total wikitrance: I look up at my computer clock, it's been an hour since I started, and I'm reading about Paris Hilton's sex tape!
by ipodboy13 January 6, 2010
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wiki tv

wiki-ing something you see on television or movie. usually to search for what or who is on the current channel you are watching.
Derek: who is that... Al Sharpton? lemme wiki tv him.
by Pseudonymwasdf May 17, 2011
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WikiWalking

Looking up something on Wikipedia which then spirals into reading pages and pages of different articles.
Gary: Hey man, you look tired.
Ash: I'm exhausted. I was looking up The Fountain of Youth last night and ended up WikiWalking until about 3am.

Jimmy: I'll catch up with you in a bit, I'm going for a WikiWalk
by Merlingoth January 27, 2013
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Wikitripping

Verb. Wikitripping is when a person looks something up on Wikipedia and while reading the article, they click on one of the links within it, and proceed to read that article, upon which they click on another link and again read that article. The process may repeat itself many times, often until the person loses track of time and/or has no recollection of what information they originally sought.
I was Wikitripping till 3am!
by Feynman Fan December 2, 2014
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WIKDERBESS

A slowly released brown slippery texture that exits ones body through the anal surroundings usully getting stuck to the anus pubes on its journey southwards of ones anus
Oh my god Becky you forgot to flush your “wikderbess”

I can’t believe how stinky and slimy my wikderbess was
by Bodily fluids June 23, 2019
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