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wikitrap 

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.
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"
wikitrap by Quixotist November 10, 2008
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wikitrip 

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."
wikitrip by DFSM November 29, 2006
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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"
wikitrail by KingPingPong2000 February 4, 2008
The horrible conundrum of being stuck on a Wikipedia page after hitting the back button a considerable amount of times.
So I looked up Vegeta's Wiki page and now I'm stuck in this Wiki Trap.
Wiki Trap by Starpunk7 August 24, 2010

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!
wikitrance by ipodboy13 January 6, 2010

Wikitripping 

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.
I was Wikitripping till 3am!
Wikitripping by Feynman Fan December 2, 2014

wikirape 

when an error in permissions on an online site allows any unauthenticated user to deface your site.
your site got wikiraped. hooray turks!
wikirape by Delano T. September 27, 2006
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