wikibomb

Sending a link containing a Wikipedia article with lots of links that prevents the recipient from doing anything productive for an hour or so.

I was going to work on my thesis but then Jim wikibombed me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

by ThymePuns October 24, 2008

wikicrastinating

wasting endless amounts of time on wikipedia (especially by looking at related articles)

I just spent 50 minutes wikicrastinating articles quantum tunneling instead of studying for my econ final.

by INTsci May 21, 2009

Wikishit

The garbage one gets following a google search without any critical thinking as to its source or veracity then regurgitated as fact by the Wiki'ier.

"She gave us her so-called thoughts on development in Burkina Faso, but it turned out to be just a bunch of Wikishit."

by lawgeek August 5, 2009

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

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

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

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