When one looks something up on wikipedia, and finds oneself clicking through links to related articles until several hours have passed, tasks for the day not achieved, trains missed, etc. It is implied that one is not longer able to leave wikipedia.
Tends to end up, no matter where one started, with articles about the British Royal Family.
Tends to end up, no matter where one started, with articles about the British Royal Family.
Noun: "I got stuck in a wikitrap today for four hours"
Verb (passive): "I would have come out but I went to look up something for my hoemwork and was wikitrapped all evening"
Verb (passive): "I would have come out but I went to look up something for my hoemwork and was wikitrapped all evening"
by Quixotist November 10, 2008
Get the wikitrap mug.The act of spending long amounts of time reading several articles on Wikipedia or other Wiki sites. Usually the act starts with the reader reading an article they intended to read, then following links to other articles within the first article. The wikitrips can last for hours, and usually spans several various topics.
"Last night I went on Wikipedia to look up stuff for my research paper on Argentina, then I followed links until I eventually was reading about the minors characters of the Star Wars movies. It was a super long wikitrip."
by DFSM November 29, 2006
Get the wikitrip mug.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.
by KingPingPong2000 February 4, 2008
Get the wikitrail mug.The horrible conundrum of being stuck on a Wikipedia page after hitting the back button a considerable amount of times.
by Starpunk7 August 24, 2010
Get the Wiki Trap mug.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
Get the wikitrance mug.Verb. Wikitripping is when a person looks something up on Wikipedia and while reading the article, they click on one of the links within it, and proceed to read that article, upon which they click on another link and again read that article. The process may repeat itself many times, often until the person loses track of time and/or has no recollection of what information they originally sought.
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