wikistand

a glib, superficial understanding resulting from a half hour spent reading a wikipedia entry, useful for patent attorneys and salespeople

"i wikistand the mathematic underpinnings of video encoding enough to grasp the cleverness of your invention"

by joe, but with another e-mail address November 27, 2007

wiksand

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.

by zeroday August 1, 2008

wikiganda

A portmanteau of Wikipedia and propaganda, wikiganda is what issues from the O’Sullivan’s Law-subsumed online encyclopedia that ostensibly "anyone can edit", but which in practice is a thought-policed lie-factory peddling establishment narratives.

"When a CNN or a FOX News bimbette reads some bullshit off her teleprompter, you don't buy it for a second, because yer smart, right? But when the same thing is written in Wikipedia with CNN or FOX as the 'reliable source', your dumb brain will eat it up with a spoon. And the garbage will sit there for years, waiting patiently like poison in an unlabeled container. That's the power of wikiganda."

by Bezzle Bedeviled August 12, 2019

wikiwander

To move freely about Wikipedia articles without a definite purpose or goal.

"I'm so bored I spent the last 12 hours wikiwandering and ended up in an article about the No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron."

by Steve Chan July 16, 2008

WikiTarded

The concept that reading a Wikipedia page makes you an expert on a given subject matter.

That smart mouth little puss-wagon thinks he sounds intelligent, but he's really WikiTarded.

by SoulBlades July 22, 2010

wikistudy

to read a book(usally a famous book and usally done for school) by checking its entry on Wikipeida to learn the plot, beging, middle, end and all the other key points without readin for hours on end

guy 1:Dawg our test on (Lord of the flies/catcher in the rye/The count of Monte crisco etc.) is in 2 hrs and I haven't read the book

guy 2: just go on Wikipedia and wikistudy it and you'll get all the key points

by David Granderson March 21, 2007

Wikitarded

Reliant upon wiki-style sources for new information. Unable to generate or locate facts independently.

"Don't ask John. He's wikitarded."

by Cory McMillen March 20, 2007