Wikipediholic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Wikipedi(a) + -holic.
Noun
[edit]Wikipediholic (plural Wikipediholics)
- (Wikimedia jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.
- Hypernym: Wikiholic
- 2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic[1] (Usenet):
- Hopefully, you'll get hooked on Wikipedia soon and can add yourself to the list of "Wikipediholics" ;-).
- 2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A., London: MIT Press, page 157:
- Wikipedians can be a similarly compulsive and eccentric lot. So much so that some refer to themselves as Wikipediholics with a case of editcountitis, "a serious disease consisting of an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits you have made to Wikipedia."
- 2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53:
- Many Wikipedia pages deal with topics only of interest to the Wikipedia community itself. Some of these pages are funny: there's a 1,181-question test to see if you're a Wikipediholic (for anyone who willingly sits through the entire test, I think the answer is obviously "yes"); a list of articles with freaky titles ("22.86 Centimetre Nails," the metric version of the band "Nine Inch Nails," now unfortunately deleted); and many others.