wikipants

person who is constantly quoting Wikipedia to win an argument or claim knowlege of some obscure fact; person who seems thus

Q, That Mr.Parker the History teacher is a right wikipants ain't he?
A. Yes, Headmaster.

by long-chops-a-doodle-dandy December 11, 2006

Wikipenis

A know it all person who acts like a dick when communicating a fact.

Why does Bill act like a wikipenis all the time.

by Supertrooper6969 November 24, 2010

Wikipasting

When you paste content from Wikipedia onto another website such as blogs or Yahoo Answers.

Bob: Wikipedia- is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project...
Mark: That guy above me must have been wikipasting.

by WikiWikih July 7, 2007

wikipaste

To copy parts of or an entire Wikipedia article in order to avoid doing any actual work

I was too tired to do the report last night so I just wikipasted it.

by tigershark April 28, 2008

wikipause

During a phone call or office conversation, a pregnant moment of silence while someone queries Wikipedia, before announcing a previously-unknown piece of information.

Iain: So is fennel a vegetable?
Liz: Wikipause.......... No, it's a highly aromatic perennial herb.

by IainC December 27, 2008

wikigentsia

plural noun, noun
1. a group of intellectuals, the collaborative elite of an encyclopedic website where anyone can edit content.

2. people that quickly provide vast amounts of quality information on a specific topic.
A portmanteau of wiki- from the Hawaiian wikiwiki, and –gentsia from the Russian intelligéntsia.

1. The wikigentsia made sure there was masses of sweet information online at the democracy of knowledge.

2. The wikigentsia revolutionized the accessibility of information on the internet by contributing to and steering the development of the wikis of the early 21st century.

3. Only a wikigentsia would know all that.

by liquicrum October 23, 2009

wikipath

The path one takes through Wikipedia from one article to the next, usually due to interest in related articles linked throughout the initial article. Similar to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Has the potential to consume hours of one's life.

I love alcohol and I want to know more about it, so I search for alcohol on Wikipedia. While reading on alcohol I find another article I am interested in (hangover) and in that article I find another (diarhhea), and so on. This is just one of many wikipath's that may originate from the article on alcohol:

*Alcohol
*Hangover
*Diarhhea
*Infective diarhhea
*Immodium AD (loperamide)
*Opioid
*Opiate
*Codeine
*Ceiling effect
*Morphine
*Morpheus

by redgopher September 7, 2006