Wikipedia talk:Confessed Wikipediholics

The "deadly Wikipedia virus"
(from the village pump)

Spotted on Xinhua, the official Chinese newswire, no less :


 * MAPUTO, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- When Yan Bincheng wearing a heavy glass mask, a shield to cover his surgical clothe and two sets of gloves, the Chinese volunteer looked more like a bio-chemical expert than a doctor from Chinese medical team in Mozambique.


 * In Maputo Central Hospital, the largest public hospital in Mozambique, Yan with his colleagues must wear these "uniforms" in everyday operation to avoid unexpected dangers from patients for some of them might be HIV carrier or even the deadly Wikipedia virus carrier.

Huh? Maybe this is a new explanation for Wikipediholism - it's actually an infectious disease! :-) -- ChrisO 11:46, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Can I qualify for medical disability payments? --Delirium 12:42, Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)


 * I think I might have it too. When I went to the physician, she said it was a sinus infection, and gave me medicine.  Now I realize that I have been misdiagnosed.  This is very upsetting.  I hope I never die (by the time i'm 100 years old, they should have already perfected immortality.) --Sennheiser! 13:44, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Take yourself over to Medical Scientism. That'll cure you. Bmills 14:22, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * I wonder if the above Xinhua reporter simply did a Google search for AIDS and got a page with a title like "AIDS virus - Wikipedia" and thought Wikipedia was the name of another virus. 217.171.129.71 (talk) 19:38, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Seriously though, I have this odd feeling of deja vu. Has wikipedia ever been incorrectly classified as a virus (im thinking of a possible article on SARS) before? --Sennheiser! 14:55, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * It's way too late to do anything about this, and I'm sure it was talked to death ages ago, but I do have to report that whenever I mention Wikipedia to someone who doesn't already know about it, they (so far invariably) think it's a Wicca-pedia and I have to explain that it is not about New Age witchcraft. Dpbsmith 15:44, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Say "wi-kee-pedia" and people won't get confused. Thats what I do. --Sennheiser!!

I don't get this. Where exactly does Xinhua get this "Wikipedia virus" idea from?! Is there supposed to be a lethal disease that sounds like [wikipidia] or has the abbreviation of WP?! Anyone cares to explain? --Menchi 06:11, 2 Feb 2005 (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 email me 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. -- Tim Starling 15:20, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)

Monday
Spent way too much time on Wikipedia today. Probably 8 hours.

Tuesday
Jeez; everybody's abandoning me because I want them to consider my wikipedia editing when they schedule stuff. Nothing's that important that it can't wait for a few hours, maybe 8 at most. Every once in a while.

Wednesday
Nothing to do all day but spend eight hours on wikipedia.

Thursday
System troubles today. Very frustrating. Wikipedia up for me only eight hours.

Friday
Have to cut back on Wikipedia! Promised myself only 8 hours today.

Saturday
I think I got it under control now. Barely eight hours after I woke up, then I went outside.

Sunday
Busy day today. Barely had eight hours to work on Wikipedia.

Gzuckier 18:30, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * What!!!!! ONLY 8 HOURS!!!! — M o e   ε  23:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't look closely -- that obviously wasn't vandalism.
Just to clarify my most recent edit summary: I hadn't looked closely enough at your edits. Obviously it wasn't vandalism. Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook

Wikipediholics?
Is this for people addicted to wikipedihol? DavidFarmbrough (talk) 04:50, 14 March 2013 (UTC)