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When your friend starts rambling about some obscure thing to an obscure subject

Friend: "Did you know that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future uses the CPS3 arcade board, the same thing as Street Fighter 3 runs on?"
Me: "bro stop being a wikipedia page lmao"

by spritzerland February 10, 2022

Wikipedia Paradox

1. An article on wikipedia talking about wikipedia and how it is not a reliable source for fact checking.

2. When a site disses itself for falsehoods and trolls

1. "Do not use wikipedia as a source of information for wikipedia"
2. Did you hear that Wikipedia outed itself as unreliable?
No.
Well I like to call it the Wikipedia Paradox

by catchingfire3 January 24, 2020

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 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

Wikipedia Barfing

A word used when someone is giving way to much information on a topic or subject that no one else cares about.

Person 1: Yoo dude I just had some really good Basmati rice.

person 2: I don't know what that is but I don't really care.

person 1: Basmati is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which is traditionally grown in the Indian subcontinent, mainly India, Pakistan, and Nepal. As of 2019, India accounted for 65% of the international trade in basmati rice, while Pakistan accounted for the remaining 35%.

person 2: Stop Wikipedia Barfing on me.

person 1: Many countries use domestically grown basmati rice crops; however, basmati is geographically exclusive to certain districts of India and Pakistan.

person 2: shut up.

by AnnieMass September 29, 2023

The Wikipedia Effect

A high degree of accuracy in a generally editable information system (like Wikipedia) which is derived from the law of large numbers: while some inaccuracies may be occasionally saved into the system, the number of edits per hour with accurate information makes the system "self-healing." Thus, over time these social information systems tend to be statistically more accurate than similar systems published by a closed source, such as a small number of editors.

While Bob's Game Maps are pretty good, the GameMap Wiki tends to have better, more timely information. Because of the Wikipedia Effect, the GameMap Wiki gets new updates to game worlds near real-time, whereas Bob takes several weeks to get his updates done.

by Hiltonian May 18, 2011

Wikipedia fucked

When you gain false information on Wikipedia under the assumption that it is true.

I failed my final exam paper because I got Wikipedia fucked.

by Anonomax September 30, 2010