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wikipedant 

A person who updates Wikipedia immediately after a breaking news story regardless of how mundane and/or apocryphal it may be.

Derived from Wikipedia (a Web site that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users) and Pedant (a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning).
You mean to tell me you were online Saturday night at midnight updating Wikipedia's Scotty Bowman entry after rumours of his impending hiring by the Toronto Maple Leafs? Man, you're not only a wikipedant, you are a loser!
wikipedant by tim13 July 20, 2008
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Wikipediaholic 

A person that has made Wikipedia their primary form of learning and talk about surfing Wikipedia at late hours of the night.
Dedroc: Dude fuck buying textbooks. Just wikipedia it
Rennen: you wikipediaholic.
Wikipediaholic by Thyrn March 11, 2008

wikimedicate 

The use of wikipedia medical articles as a doctor, for any purpose intended such as diagnose and/or medicate. This could be use to diagnose and treat from simple diseases as swine flu to complicated trastorns as depressed vagina.

Used to prescribe aspirin, prozac or morphine.
Person1: hey man, you shouldn't be automedicating.

Person2: Of course i don't do that. I just wikimedicate.

Person1: Oh...fine, then. Wikipedia is my favorite doctor.
wikimedicate by elizro October 6, 2009

wikipediac 

one who addicted to the constant looking up of facts, useless or not, on wikipedia.com
I am such a wikipediac, i cannot stop researching facts on wikipedia.com.
wikipediac by Sebastian Quintero December 30, 2008

wikipediac 

A person who gets all or most of their information from wikipedia
Anna is such a wikipediac, she gave her speech of an article.
wikipediac by Daniel R. July 20, 2008

Wikipedianism 

A concept describing someone supporting the Idea of believing everything that is on the Wikipedia. A form of authoritarianism. Wikipedianists are people who worship Wikipedia. Usually pseudointellectuals thinking they are smarter because they read Wikipedia.
- Do you watch BBC?
- Yeah, it's one of the most reliable sources in the world. It told me that when I will get vaxxed i will get superpowers
- Where did you read that?
- On Wikipedia
- But do you know that that isn't reliable source, right? If you will continue believing everything here, that would mean you are becoming a Wikipedianist, someone supporting the idea of Wikipedianism

Wikipeditis 

A cyber disease in which a Wikipedia surfer tries to avoid Wikarpal Tunnel Syndrome by "ctrl-clicking" the blue reference links which appear as tabs within their browser, and inadvertently creates too many tabs. Symptoms include complete confusion and the reading of information with the mistaken understanding as to what topic the information pertains to.
I opened so many tabs the other day that I almost crashed my browser. I must suffer from a bad case of Wikipeditis.
Wikipeditis by Neonym September 1, 2009