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A person whose knowledge of many various topics is mainly derived from reading Wikipedia.
"Oh John, how do you know so much about everything?"
"I'm a Wikipedia scholar; I spend my free time reading Wikipedia pages."
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A means of getting much needed information for most school-children, in order to put in as little effort required to complete a project due within several days.
This is a outcome caused by:
1. Lazyness.
or more often:
2. your own procrastination f*cked you over, and so your
doing it the very night before it is due.
1. "I don't wanna use a damn book, I want to go on
Wikipdia instead ma!"
2. "Holy shit, I need to get this crap done on Wikipedia
before tomorrow or Mr. PainInTheAss will chew me out!"
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The act of losing between 45-120 minutes while performing click-throughs from the initial Wikipedia page you were interested in.... often leading you to knowledge that has no relationship what-so-ever to your original search.
Man, I was lost 2 hours and missed a meeting because I went down a Wikipedia Rathole. However, I do now know that Richie Sambora is was born in Woodbridge, NJ.
NOTE: Original search was snow fall amounts in the NE.
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The inevitable result of trying to do serious research on wikipedia. Consists of clicking on random links in articles until you get as far away from the original topic as possible. The results must then reported to the closest person you know.
I was researching Warren Buffet for business class. Sure enough, I got into a session of the wikipedia game, and 9 pages later, I was on Louis the XIV of France.
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A website that uses a mind numbingly boring amount of words you don't understand to explain words you don't understand.
Wikipedia tends to be very sesquipedalian
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An indefinite part of speech than can be used as a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb. Refers to anything that is disgustingly, grossly unfair.
"I got a B+ in AP Calculus..."
"BILLY, YOU WIKIPEDIA!!! YOU DISGRACE OUR FAMILY!"
"Did you watch the game?"
"Yeah, we got wikipedia'd."
"You have the right to remain silent?"
"Oh no, wikipedia? NOT AGAIN!!!"
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1. An article on wikipedia talking about wikipedia and how it is not a reliable source for fact checking.
2. When a site disses itself for falsehoods and trolls
1. "Do not use wikipedia as a source of information for wikipedia"
2. Did you hear that Wikipedia outed itself as unreliable?
No.
Well I like to call it the Wikipedia Paradox