"Going down a wikihole" is a term used to describe the phenomenon in which one opens a wiki article about something cool, clicks on a link to another article about something ever cooler, and eventually comes up for air 6 hours or so later after having clicked on all manner of related cool wiki links. The word is based on "wiki" as in "wikipedia" plus "hole" as in rabbit hole, and is inspired by the notion that wikipedia offers its own highly seductive type of single-user rabbit hole. It is similar in meaning to "wikitrail" but implies a certain loss of control at some point.
Damn! It's already 2 a.m.! I just wanted to look up this one thing about coffee and ended up winding my way through a four-hour wikihole!
by Pennsylvania Dave July 11, 2011
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Get the Wikiloop mug.The act of aimlessly clicking through links in an online wiki, such as Wikipedia, often driven by boredom and wanton curiosity. This is facilitated by the fact that most wiki's are crosslinked everywhere, so you may very well look up "Potato" and eventually wind up in "Vaginal Suppository".
I got sucked into a three hour wikidive last night, starting at "Animal farm" and winding up at "Crush Fetish."
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I just went to Wikipedia a high school in Bangladesh, and I ended up on an article about Cottage Cheese.
Dang, looks like you fell into a Wikipedia Hole.
Dang, looks like you fell into a Wikipedia Hole.
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Get the wikiticle mug.What you've stumbled into when you go to look something up quickly in Wikipedia only to emerge 3 hours later having followed hundreds of links into myriad topics about which you never thought you would care. Like quicksand, its grip is unrelenting and the more one tries to extricate oneself, the more browser tabs one opens to continue down alternate paths. Usually starts out as a momentary tangent to try to dredge up memories of an old technology or company or natural disaster and quickly turns into an all-day waste of time. Not that learning is a waste of time, but you should really get back to work already. And close some of those tabs.
I only wanted to quickly look up this Senator, but I got stuck in wiksand and now I know all of the African countries by heart and the chemical make-up of capsaicin.
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