-to follow a trail of links on Wikipedia from one article to another, usually leading to an article that is completely unrelated to the original search subject.

-first used by DirtyPat while explaining to someone what he did all afternoon.
-I spent all afternoon on the wiki trail learning about interesting things.
by DirtyPat June 3, 2009
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a series of wikipedia articles, linked from one common article.
I started reading about WW2 and wound up down the wiki trail 3 hours later reading about the Treaty of Westphalia.
by vasco de gama lama2 July 7, 2010
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