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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wikipedia

A source teachers will normally call unreliable cause it can be “changed” even though it is normally monitored 24/7
Teacher: Look for a source online I will not credit you for Wikipedia. Kid: Wikipedia is a reliable source it’s monitored on a daily basis.
by 20mm Hispano Mkll Cannon September 6, 2020
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Wikipedia

A source teachers will normally call unreliable cause it can be “changed” even though it is normally monitored 24/7
Teacher: Look for a source online I will not credit you for Wikipedia. Kid: Wikipedia is a reliable source it’s monitored on a daily basis.
by 20mm Hispano Mkll Cannon September 6, 2020
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