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!

by tim13 July 20, 2008

wikipedant

wik-ee-ped-nt (n.)

1. a person who is excessively concerned with looking up minor details and rules on wikis (notably Wikipedia) or with displaying their internet-learning, esp. when it has just been learned.
2. a person who adheres rigidly to the content of wiki pages without regard to common sense.
3. a person who is v. ostentatious or condescending when engaged in the above behavior.

Other forms: wikipedantic (adj.), wikipedantry (n., an example of wikipedantic behavior)

The wikipedant was constantly on her phone, checking and correcting our ENTIRE conversation.

by Shaestorms May 1, 2014

Wikipedian Loop

The Wikipedian Loop occurs when the use of Wikipedia to research a particular subject leads to an infinite loop of addiction.

This addiction is characterised by staring transfixed at Wikipedia pages for hours at a time and usually results in varying levels of frustration and distress at the impossibility of ever successfully reading through all the Wikipedia pages currently open without the urge to open even more to linked subjects and thus continue the Loop.

At its climax an infinite number of screens may be open (allowing for your computers capabilities).

See also: Wiki Loop

I got sucked into a Wikipedian Loop man, I was there for like 5 hours, I started on 'Smallpox' and ended up in 'History of Adidas'...I had 26 screens open...luckily the computer crashed or I'd still be there now...

by Marie Penney January 28, 2007

Wikipedian Zombie

Someone who keeps clicking the "Random article" button on wikipedia in the hope of finding something vaguely funny or interesting.

The first 10 times he clicked random article he could still communicate, but now he doesn't respond to any sort of stimulation. It's no use, he's a Wikipedian Zombie now.

by Aexerus January 14, 2010

wikipediot

An ignorant zealot, usually a Wikipedian, who aggressively defends or promotes Wikipedia while ignoring, downplaying, or misrepresenting its shortcomings and failures.

The wikipediots had a happy circlejerk and banned the troll.

by Blu Aardvark August 1, 2007

UD wikipedian

Someone who just copies stuff from wikipedia and post it on urban dictionary.

Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases. As of 2009, the site contains over four million definitions. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors, who tend to be youths rather than adults. Time magazine's Anita Hamilton2 placed the Urban Dictionary on her 50 best websites of 2008 list

example of what a ud wikipedian would post to urban dictionary

by dont put wikipedia ud November 11, 2009

wikipedestrian

A term to describe an individual who initially accesses Wikipedia for reference purposes, but after navigating through interesting wiki links finds themselves minus half a day and plus a growing collection of Wikipedia windows; each spanning vastly different topics.

John: I was using Wikipedia to find info on a band I like; next thing I knew it was four hours later and I had 30 Wikipedia windows open.
Jane: You're such a wikipedestrian.
John: This is never going to catch on.
Jane: That's because you're not selling it, 'find info on a band'? Please, that sounds so fake.

by Grae September 6, 2005