''Wikipediholic (n) - one who is addicted to the Wikipedia.'' A wikipediholic or wikiholic is characterized by having a web browser window constantly open to the Special:Recentchanges section of Wikipedia (or in the condition's slightly milder form, one's Wikipedia:Watchlist), and pressing the "Reload" or "Refresh" button with a high frequency. Others click the "Special: randompage" button instead. It can lead to a serious decrease in productivity in all other areas of the victim's life, like any other addiction. That's why we're called "Users", after all. *Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test This is a recent phenomenon - having been made possible by the creation of Wikipedia in January, 2001 - and affects primarily computer programmers, academics, graduate students, gameshow contestants, news junkies, the unemployed and, in general, people with multiple interests and good memories. Although people who fit those descriptions are welcome, they should know that the entire human species does not necessarily share their world-view, and that it may be better for wiki itself if they take a walk once in a while, and remember that their body consists of more than fingers, eyes, brain, and bladder. And that Instrumentalism, not Dogma. The Wiki Prayer ([http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiPrayer], adapted from wikiquote:The Serenity Prayer) :''Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,'' :''The Wikipedia:Be Bold to edit the pages I can,'' :''And the wisdom to know the difference.'' The Subterranean Wiki Prayer Revisited, Nos. 5 and 36 :''Johnny edits the Main Page'' :''I re-write the Stone age'' :''Napoleon and Shakespeare dress like a God'' :''We'll be here all night - refresh the same page'' The 12 steps of recovery for Wikipediholics # We admitted we were powerless over Wikipedia; that our lives had become unmanageable. # Came to believe that an Author of Knowledge greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. # Made a decision to turn our obsession for editing and article creation over to the care of The Author of Knowledge as we understood Him (or Her). # Made a searching and fearless knowledge inventory of ourselves. # Admitted to the Author of Knowledge, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our factual mistakes and gaps. # Were entirely ready to have the Author of Knowledge remove all these factual defects. # Humbly asked Him (or Her) to remove our shortcomings by motivating us to be diligent in our research and study. # Made a list of all persons we had harmed by spreading unverified rumors, and became willing to make amends to them all. # Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. # Continued to take personal knowledge inventories and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. # Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Author of Knowledge, as we understood Him (or Her), praying only for knowledge of His (or Her) will for us and the power to carry that out. # Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Wikipediholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. ''With all due reverence and respect to those who suffer from genuine addictions and have found relief and recovery through Twelve-step program.'' Those wishing to get rid of the habit, may wish to check themselves in the Wikipedia:Clinic for Wikipediholics. Those who are sick of all these jokes and just want to talk to someone may wish to check the talk page. Alternatives to Cure For those who see no end to their Wikipediholism may want to try Wikipedia:Department of Fun to keep things interesting also keep an eye out for more Wikitivities. You might also want to try a cure of :m:Wikipatch. In case of dire emergency and should all else fail, consider checking in the Wikipedia:Clinic for Wikipediholics. ==See also== * Meta:Hotel Wikipedia theme song * Meta:Wikipedia is an MMORPG * Obsessive-compulsive disorder * Wikipedia:Who, Why? * Wikipedia:Confessed wikipediholics * Wikipedia:Wikipedians by number of edits * Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial * User:Bryan_Derksen The Wikipedian (not bot) with the highest edit count in 5 figures. Wikipediholics
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For a November 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipediholic ---- Why not post "neutrality disputed" disclimer in article ---- Just some ramblings -- not sure we need another silly page, so I'm hijacking this empty talk page. A new Wikipedian recently wrote "I'm having a great time." This struck me. "You're in phase 2" I thought. So here are the phases of descent into Wikipediholism. They're more relevant than the 12-step programme ''out'' of Wikipediholism, because, let's face it, who has ever made it out willingly? # Inquiry -- "what's this strange place?" # Discovery -- "I'm having a great time" # Enthusiasm # Dependency # Realising your previous lifestyle of bicycling, dinner with friends, seeing the sun and doing laundry was like being a caterpillar, and that you are now a free-flying wikimoth. # Resignation to the fact that you now belong, body & soul to the Wikipedia, and are forever flying into the irresistible flame of the wikicandle. ---- Perhaps we can cure Wikipediholicism by remembering that you should Wikipedia:contribute what you know? User:MyRedDice ---- I'm going to move this to meta. Objections? User:MyRedDice 23:51 18 Jul 2003 (UTC) : Yes. While it's a silly page, it's linked to a lot of other silly pages, and moving just this one to Meta doesn't seem like a good idea, and it's clear that many of the other ones refer specifically to the English wiki. So I think the whole bundle should stay here. --User:Eloquence 23:53 18 Jul 2003 (UTC) :: I was just going to move this and the "in denial" list, and maybe the test slightly later. They're mostly linked in user pages and talk pages - I'm happy to fix those to point directly at meta. I thought it'd go nicely with meta:Wikipedians by favourite color and similar lists. Checking the links back they don't seem particularly strongly interconnected - should be an easy move. :: Doesn't look particularly English-specific, either. But I'll not move it for now. User:MyRedDice 00:10 19 Jul 2003 (UTC) ==Real cases== This page and others like it are mostly humourous and give no help, respect or recognition to those people who have a serious problem with Wikipedia. There is no system to help such people, that I know of. A small number of Wikipedians who are particularly close to me have confided in me regarding their feelings towards Wikipedia. No doubt the problem is fairly common. If anyone would like to talk privately and confidentially about how Wikipedia is affecting your life, please Special:Emailuser/Tim_Starling and we'll see if we can set something up. At the moment we don't have much of a support network, but we'll see what we can do. -- User:Tim Starling 15:20, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC) == Why only Wikipedia? == ''wikipediholic (n) - one who is addicted to wikipedia'' - why not to Wikibooks or Wikiquote or Wikisource or Meta-Wiki? --User:Piotrus 20:49, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Real work to be done == My addiction to wikipedia seems to increase when I have an essay to do, and become stronger and stronger as the deadline approches (and the work remains undone)--User:JK the unwise 14:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Ditto (replace "essay"->"work deadline"). User:Elf | User talk:Elf 21:00, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Sexism== Does anyone else agree that the His (or Her) reference throughout is sexist, and should be changed to His/Her, or indeed Her/His?--User:Cormaggio 20:43, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Absolutely not. (Unless this was meant as a joke, in which case surely something better could be arrived at--say, "wikimer".) User:Elf | User talk:Elf 21:00, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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''Wikipediholic (n) - one who is addicted to the Wikipedia.'' A wikipediholic or wikiholic is characterized by having a web browser window constantly open to the Special:Recentchanges section of Wikipedia (or in the condition's slightly milder form, one's Wikipedia:Watchlist), and pressing the "Reload" or "Refresh" button with a high frequency. Others click the "Special: randompage" button instead. It can lead to a serious decrease in productivity in all other areas of the victim's life, like any other addiction. That's why we're called "Users", after all. *Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test This is a recent phenomenon - having been made possible by the creation of Wikipedia in January, 2001 - and affects primarily computer programmers, academics, graduate students, gameshow contestants, news junkies, the unemployed and, in general, people with multiple interests and good memories. Although people who fit those descriptions are welcome, they should know that the entire human species does not necessarily share their world-view, and that it may be better for wiki itself if they take a walk once in a while, and remember that their body consists of more than fingers, eyes, brain, and bladder. And that Instrumentalism, not Dogma. The Wiki Prayer ([http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiPrayer], adapted from wikiquote:The Serenity Prayer) :''Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,'' :''The Wikipedia:Be Bold to edit the pages I can,'' :''And the wisdom to know the difference.'' The Subterranean Wiki Prayer Revisited, Nos. 5 and 36 :''Johnny edits the Main Page'' :''I re-write the Stone age'' :''Napoleon and Shakespeare dress like a God'' :''We'll be here all night - refresh the same page'' The 12 steps of recovery for Wikipediholics # We admitted we were powerless over Wikipedia; that our lives had become unmanageable. # Came to believe that an Author of Knowledge greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. # Made a decision to turn our obsession for editing and article creation over to the care of The Author of Knowledge as we understood Him (or Her). # Made a searching and fearless knowledge inventory of ourselves. # Admitted to the Author of Knowledge, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our factual mistakes and gaps. # Were entirely ready to have the Author of Knowledge remove all these factual defects. # Humbly asked Him (or Her) to remove our shortcomings by motivating us to be diligent in our research and study. # Made a list of all persons we had harmed by spreading unverified rumors, and became willing to make amends to them all. # Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. # Continued to take personal knowledge inventories and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. # Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Author of Knowledge, as we understood Him (or Her), praying only for knowledge of His (or Her) will for us and the power to carry that out. # Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Wikipediholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. ''With all due reverence and respect to those who suffer from genuine addictions and have found relief and recovery through Twelve-step program.'' Those wishing to get rid of the habit, may wish to check themselves in the Wikipedia:Clinic for Wikipediholics. Those who are sick of all these jokes and just want to talk to someone may wish to check the talk page. Alternatives to Cure For those who see no end to their Wikipediholism may want to try Wikipedia:Department of Fun to keep things interesting also keep an eye out for more Wikitivities. You might also want to try a cure of :m:Wikipatch. In case of dire emergency and should all else fail, consider checking in the Wikipedia:Clinic for Wikipediholics. ==See also== * Meta:Hotel Wikipedia theme song * Meta:Wikipedia is an MMORPG * Obsessive-compulsive disorder * Wikipedia:Who, Why? * Wikipedia:Confessed wikipediholics * Wikipedia:Wikipedians by number of edits * Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial * User:Bryan_Derksen The Wikipedian (not bot) with the highest edit count in 5 figures. Wikipediholics
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For a November 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipediholic ---- Why not post "neutrality disputed" disclimer in article ---- Just some ramblings -- not sure we need another silly page, so I'm hijacking this empty talk page. A new Wikipedian recently wrote "I'm having a great time." This struck me. "You're in phase 2" I thought. So here are the phases of descent into Wikipediholism. They're more relevant than the 12-step programme ''out'' of Wikipediholism, because, let's face it, who has ever made it out willingly? # Inquiry -- "what's this strange place?" # Discovery -- "I'm having a great time" # Enthusiasm # Dependency # Realising your previous lifestyle of bicycling, dinner with friends, seeing the sun and doing laundry was like being a caterpillar, and that you are now a free-flying wikimoth. # Resignation to the fact that you now belong, body & soul to the Wikipedia, and are forever flying into the irresistible flame of the wikicandle. ---- Perhaps we can cure Wikipediholicism by remembering that you should Wikipedia:contribute what you know? User:MyRedDice ---- I'm going to move this to meta. Objections? User:MyRedDice 23:51 18 Jul 2003 (UTC) : Yes. While it's a silly page, it's linked to a lot of other silly pages, and moving just this one to Meta doesn't seem like a good idea, and it's clear that many of the other ones refer specifically to the English wiki. So I think the whole bundle should stay here. --User:Eloquence 23:53 18 Jul 2003 (UTC) :: I was just going to move this and the "in denial" list, and maybe the test slightly later. They're mostly linked in user pages and talk pages - I'm happy to fix those to point directly at meta. I thought it'd go nicely with meta:Wikipedians by favourite color and similar lists. Checking the links back they don't seem particularly strongly interconnected - should be an easy move. :: Doesn't look particularly English-specific, either. But I'll not move it for now. User:MyRedDice 00:10 19 Jul 2003 (UTC) ==Real cases== This page and others like it are mostly humourous and give no help, respect or recognition to those people who have a serious problem with Wikipedia. There is no system to help such people, that I know of. A small number of Wikipedians who are particularly close to me have confided in me regarding their feelings towards Wikipedia. No doubt the problem is fairly common. If anyone would like to talk privately and confidentially about how Wikipedia is affecting your life, please Special:Emailuser/Tim_Starling and we'll see if we can set something up. At the moment we don't have much of a support network, but we'll see what we can do. -- User:Tim Starling 15:20, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC) == Why only Wikipedia? == ''wikipediholic (n) - one who is addicted to wikipedia'' - why not to Wikibooks or Wikiquote or Wikisource or Meta-Wiki? --User:Piotrus 20:49, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Real work to be done == My addiction to wikipedia seems to increase when I have an essay to do, and become stronger and stronger as the deadline approches (and the work remains undone)--User:JK the unwise 14:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Ditto (replace "essay"->"work deadline"). User:Elf | User talk:Elf 21:00, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Sexism== Does anyone else agree that the His (or Her) reference throughout is sexist, and should be changed to His/Her, or indeed Her/His?--User:Cormaggio 20:43, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Absolutely not. (Unless this was meant as a joke, in which case surely something better could be arrived at--say, "wikimer".) User:Elf | User talk:Elf 21:00, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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