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I asked him why he was late and he just told me a wiki.
by LC_MAC March 11, 2009
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john wicking

(verb) When you're just fucking killing everything in your path.
I'm fucking john wicking on these kids right now in overwatch.
by xeu July 19, 2019
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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
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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
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wicking off

The act of becoming so enthralled by gaining knowledge from Wikipedia that you originally searched for "bio-luminescence," and, four hours later, are learning the history of "Oktoberfest."
I was wicking off so much yesterday; I started reading about Greek mythology and ended with the controversy of Billy Mays' death.
by Hublahublahubla October 3, 2009
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wikbiquity

1. The minimum number of links you must traverse to get from one wikipedia article to another. The links traversed must all be within the current wikipedia article.

2. A metric used to measure the commonality or ubiquity of a wikipedia article.
1. 'World War II' to 'Adolf Hitler' has a wikbiquity of 1.

2. The wikbiquity from 'Chuck Norris' to 'Homosexuality' is surprisingly low.
by dionyses January 27, 2010
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wikbiquitous

1. A topic or subject that is ubiquitous within wikipedia.

2. A wikipedia article that can be arrived at from another arbitrary wikipedia article with a relatively low wikbiquity.
1. 'Adolf Hitler' is wikbiquitous.

2. In general, by starting at any wikipedia article I can reach the article for 'Adolf Hitler' within 2 or 3 links. Therefore I can say that 'Adolf Hitler' is wikbiquitous.
by dionyses January 27, 2010
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