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The Wikipedia Effect 

The Wikipedia Effect is the tendancy for inquisitive people to become caught in an endless series of pages on the popular open-encyclopedia, "Wikipedia", to which they are forced to read every single page they've opened.

This tends to happen thanks to Wikipedia's inter-linking model, which links important words in a particular article, to an entire article on that word. The trend can then easily cascade from there, ending in dozens of pages that a user finds interesting.
"Don't you just love The Wikipedia Effect? It sure is a good way to stave off boredom."
The Wikipedia Effect by ceosion December 24, 2008

wikipedia regurgita 

The act of copying and pasting information from Wikipedia and passing it of as legitimate research.
Teacher: "Okay kids, I want you to write a history of World War II and I don't want any wikipedia regurgita."

Wikipedia mod

The pinnacle of human evolution , the biggest pp in the universe (if you disagree u have smol pp)

they get all the girls and men and are the highest form of chad.
Wikipedia mod by kfcpotasium March 22, 2021

Wikipedia 

A kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn't exist depending on the precise moment a person relies upon the encyclopedia's discordant fucking mob for information.
Wikipedia is the most useless source of information on the planet - things change every second.
Wikipedia by kalikitsune December 8, 2009

Wikipedia 

Wikipedia has some serious problems. Wikipedia articles/entries that are about History or Politics are often unreliable, extremely biased, and incredibly one sided. There are many examples of Wikipedia articles totally contradicting each other and presenting the contradictions as fact. There also many examples of Wikipedia articles stating totally FALSE information with weak citations and evidence that readers think is factual.

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, content can be changed by anyone for any reason, so each article will most likely be written by someone who has a passion for the topic and therefore a bias for or against it. Wikipedia administrators are shadowy figures that can have very strong biases, and they control what you see and read on Wikipedia, effectively altering public opinion to fit their narrative and beliefs. Take what you read on Wikipedia with a huge grain of salt.
You read that on Wikipedia? Ha! No wonder it's not true.
Wikipedia by YungGravyy May 12, 2019

wikipedia genius 

That douchebag whole spends all day on Wikipedia and then thinks they're the smartest person in the world when in reality they're probably just reciting words and have know idea what they mean.

Most prominantly seen when teachers/professors present new material and the wikipedia genius has to blab out the first paragraph of the wikipedia page about it. After commended for being so smart they are usually asked a more in-depth question and have no clue about it.
I swear if that wikipedia genius acts like he's smarter than me I'm gonna smash his laptop and then we'll see who knows more.