wiki train

When you click on one interesting article on Wikipedia, and that leads to clicking onto another interesting arcticle, and another, and another, and you're on a wiki train you just can't get off!

"I clicked on the featured article of the day and I got on a wiki train which ended up at Henry VIII!"

by Richard Leng May 19, 2008

Wikibrain

the state in which you unconsciously jump from thought to thought due to extended exposure to Wikipedia's many random links.
An accompanying side effect could be the recitation of random and useless facts and stories. The person afflicted with Wikipedia Memory most likely does not understand what he or she is saying. See Wikipedia Scholar

Someone afflicted with Wikibrain should immediately see their local hospital for a castration, lest the stupid spread to any children.

"Hey man why didn't you do your homework?"
"I don't know, I was looking up how to do trigonometry when I ended up reading an article on Norton, the emperor of the United States. It seems he was insane."

"Man, you have some serious Wikibrain"

"Yeah... Btw did you know according to Cartesian Dualism there are dual commitments about the nature of existence as it relates to mind and matter? That means I exist in two places at once. Therefore, I can eat my burger twice!"

"..."

by hsu21693 June 11, 2009

wikitrail

Wikitrail (n). A method of web surfing in which one opens Wikipedia to an interesting topic, and then follows interesting links to other wikipedia pages from there, recursively.

"I wanted to go to bed early last night, but I got stuck on a wikitrail and stayed up till four"

by KingPingPong2000 February 4, 2008

wikibrain

Someone with a large amount of information, a human encyclopedia

"She can name every type of pasta there is, she's such a wikibrain"

by SpongeBob helladope October 28, 2019

wikitrance

a trance-like state in which one goes from a page brought up on wikipedia or sites that are similar and goes from one hyperlink to another and another...until realizing that he/she has wasted a substantial amount of time and has gone completely off task.

hey bro, i was doing research for my history project on the Cuban Missile Crisis on wikipedia and went into a total wikitrance: I look up at my computer clock, it's been an hour since I started, and I'm reading about Paris Hilton's sex tape!

by ipodboy13 January 6, 2010

wikitrail

A (usually long) series of wikipedia articles, in which the first article begins the trail and other articles are read by clicking on embedded links in the first or succeeding articles. Trails are followed until the reader's natural curiosity is satisfied, until the reader has run out of time, or until the reader has passed out unconscious.

Some wikitrails become so addictive that the reader obsessively finds him- or herself obsessively clicking on link after link, even though it is well past the reader's bedtime and there will inevitably be hell to pay for this tomorrow. These types of wikitrails are also called wikiholes.

I followed this interesting wikitrail on the languages of Spain and somehow ended up in the French Pyrenees!

by Pennsylvania Dave July 11, 2011