A statistic of questionable reliability, often completely ridiculus, but that is assumed to be fact, usually found on wikipedia. Can also be applied to any statistic found on wikipedia.
"Did you know that 4 out of every 10 eskimo children are eaten by wolves before the age of twelve?"
"For serious man, or is that just another wikitistic?"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)