Wikipediatrics

Tinkering with wikipedia with the end goal of winning an argument.

Teacher 1: My student handed in a paper that said that Martin Luther King Jr. was actually white.
Teacher 2: Did he source his facts?
Teacher 1: Yeah, to wikipedia.
Teacher 2: I'm scoping right now, and it looks like he's correct.
Teacher 1: Oooh. I suspect some wikipediatrics are at play here.

by Hans Grub January 6, 2013

wikipedia phd

A feel of deep understanding received after reading the Wikipedia article on a certain subject.

Friend: "This guy at the party last night told me that quantum physics says nothing is real and we are all just waves"
Me: "I'm pretty sure he just got his Wikipedia PHD and doesn't really know what he's talking about"

by TheTrustyDrifter September 12, 2014

wikipedia loop

The state of continually clicking links from article to article on Wikipedia following topics that grow progressively further from the search you started.

I started out on a Ford article on Wikipedia and ended up on an article about Animal Farm. I was in a wikipedia loop.

by Benny123 January 13, 2016

Wikipedicure

A bunch of gossip or info talked by girls about people when they are getting a pedicure.

Person 1 '''Suzy slept with John last night . She spent the night over at his house . She is so gross .Why would he sleep with her eww .

Person 2 '' This wikipedicure is making me soo much better girl .''

by TheLettersYouWrote July 13, 2016

Wikipedia Waterslide

When you're looking up something on Wikipedia, but while reading about it, you encounter several other concepts you are not familiar with. Naive internet users will proceed to also look up those concepts on Wikipedia (said concepts are usually written as links when mentioned in the text, and therefore intrigue readers enough to click on them). They, in turn, lead to other Wikipedia pages, and before you know it, you've gone from reading about string theory, to studying dinosaur erotica in incognito mode.

Careful when reading about stuff in Wikipedia, kids, or else you may end up falling down a Wikipedia Waterslide.

by RelativelyRetarded December 6, 2017

Wikipediaed

1. To copy and paste information on Wikipedia, constantly frowned upon by educators.
2. To look up information to shut down an argument.
3. To be acknowledged on Wikipedia, usually boosting one's social stats.

1. 'Jack, did you copy and paste from Wikipedia? I will be contacting your mother regarding this.'
2. 'Shawn Mendez was NOT born in Canada,', Conan exclaimed when suddenly, Jack pulled his MyPhone ECKS Wikipediaed it, 'Lookie here, he was born in TORONTO, boi.'
3. 9/11 was Wikipediaed about quite a while afterwards.

by The Canadian Textbook December 19, 2017

wikipediatrician

A wikipediatrician is someone who thinks the decisions they make are the best for their child, without doing any substantial research on the given issue.

It combines the words Wikipedia and pediatrician, the pediatrician part mockingly implies an expertise in children.

The wikipedia part implies the scarce amount of actual research they did on the subjects they claim to know a lot about, also implying the reliability of the sources used (if any are used).

Karen did not vaccinate her children because she was convinced vaccines caused autism, she is such a wikipediatrician

by Paul Olio April 29, 2019