the best type of moderator in the entire internet, these guys are very hard working, they have to reverse vandalism in wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in the world, these guys get all the bitches , no fucking doubt, they write articles about something which can take lots of hours of research to just write one line of text, they have to moderate images in wikipedia too, they have to make sure it's appropiate, helpful and accurate, without a doubt, they are the most based out there
wikipedia mod: hey i moderate for wikipedia
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When you're looking up something on Wikipedia, but while reading about it, you encounter several other concepts you are not familiar with. Naive internet users will proceed to also look up those concepts on Wikipedia (said concepts are usually written as links when mentioned in the text, and therefore intrigue readers enough to click on them). They, in turn, lead to other Wikipedia pages, and before you know it, you've gone from reading about string theory, to studying dinosaur erotica in incognito mode.
Careful when reading about stuff in Wikipedia, kids, or else you may end up falling down a Wikipedia Waterslide.
When somebody goes onto Wikipedia to find a specific piece of information and, usually via wikilinks, ends up going off track and going through a bunch of unrelated articles. This can be common among students who have a low attention span or other focus issues.
Person: Hey dude, Imma go onto Wikipedia to find when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Dude: OK, just don't lose track of time.
*20 minutes later*
Person: How am I on an article about racism in Australia?!
Dude: Wikipedia Hypnosis, I presume? You've gotta work on your focus, man.
A word used when someone is giving way to much information on a topic or subject that no one else cares about.
Person 1: Yoo dude I just had some really good Basmati rice.
person 2: I don't know what that is but I don't really care.
person 1: Basmati is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which is traditionally grown in the Indian subcontinent, mainly India, Pakistan, and Nepal. As of 2019, India accounted for 65% of the international trade in basmati rice, while Pakistan accounted for the remaining 35%.
person 2: Stop Wikipedia Barfing on me.
person 1: Many countries use domestically grown basmati rice crops; however, basmati is geographically exclusive to certain districts of India and Pakistan.
person 2: shut up.
A feel of deep understanding received after reading the Wikipedia article on a certain subject.
Friend: "This guy at the party last night told me that quantum physics says nothing is real and we are all just waves"
Me: "I'm pretty sure he just got his Wikipedia PHD and doesn't really know what he's talking about"
The state of continually clicking links from article to article on Wikipedia following topics that grow progressively further from the search you started.
I started out on a Ford article on Wikipedia and ended up on an article about Animal Farm. I was in a wikipedia loop.
When your friend starts rambling about some obscure thing to an obscure subject
Friend: "Did you know that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future uses the CPS3 arcade board, the same thing as Street Fighter 3 runs on?"
Me: "bro stop being a wikipedia page lmao"