a wiki

a lie

I asked him why he was late and he just told me a wiki.

by LC_MAC March 11, 2009

wiki-clicky

The tendency for one to go to Wikipedia to look something up, but then continue to click on Wiki links on subsequent entries for hours.

I started at biochemistry and ended up on ska punk. I did a wiki-clicky for like 6 hours!

by nemyhlovecraft December 6, 2006

Wikifloating

When you're surfing Wikipedia and drift away from the original article and get distracted by other articles linked in the one you meant to read in the first place. The same of course can happen to you all over again with the next article - potentially going on like this for hours.

wikisurfing

dude 1: hey, did you know that george lucas was inspired by his dog when he created the wookies?
dude 2: hey, I thought you were doing research for your history essay.
dude 1: yes, but then I started wikifloating! for hours.

by Kane* October 26, 2008

wikibout

when one is linked to an article on wikipedia and proceeds to spend an inordinate amount of time following links about completely unrelated articles. named for the walkabout wherein australian aboriginals walk in the desert for months at a time.

I was gonna get a bunch of work done this afternoon, but I got lost on a wikibout, started with Hanson and 3 hours later i was reading about Schrödinger's cat.

by phaelen June 2, 2011

wikiclusion

The scientific process of researching a topic and making conclusions about the topic based on whatever Wikipedia says.

In researching cation exchange capacity of candler sandy soils, he came to the wikiclusion that it didn't matter whether the soil was saturated or dry.

by considerthelily November 13, 2011

wikiclick

When you click a term in the current wiki page, read that page and click another link, read that page and click another link, read that page...

Shown in xkcd's "Tab Explosion"

My friend sent a link to 'Nightmare Fuel' on tvtropes and four hours of wikiclicking later, I was reading 'My Hovercraft is Full of Eels'

by addicted to tvtropes.org April 28, 2012

wikibout

Wikibout is a term for falling down that virtual, hyper-text rabbit hole of clicking on term after term, topic after topic, on Wikipedia. You started looking up one thing and then saw something that looked interesting and clicked on it, and before you know it, three hours have passed. You went from originally reading about the history of ice cream to reading all about baseball's greatest knuckleball pitchers. With lots of stuff in between too. A classic wikibout...

"Why were you late to work today?"

"I went on a wikibout. Lost track of the time I guess..."

by liljoint November 5, 2012