Meanings
plural Wikipediholics
- Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.
Yes, I am a Wikipediholic.
2004 July 6, Bryan Derksen, “Ringworld's Children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)3 more examples
Hopefully, you'll get hooked on Wikipedia soon and can add yourself to the list of "Wikipediholics" ;-).
2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet)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."
2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A.; London: MIT Press, page 157Many 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.
2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53
Origin
- Proto-Polynesian*witi
- Hawaiianwiki
- Hawaiianwikiwiki
- Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*webaną
- Proto-Germanic*wabją
- Old Englishwebb
- Middle Englishweb
- Englishweb
- EnglishWikiWikiWebclip.
- Englishwiki
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Ancient Greekἐν (en)
- Ancient Greekἐν- (en-)
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
- Proto-Hellenic*kʷókʷlos
- Proto-Hellenic*kúklos
- Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
- Ancient Greekἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-
- Proto-Hellenic*pā́wits
- Ancient Greekπαῖς (paîs)
- Ancient Greekπαιδεύω (paideúō)
- Ancient Greekπαιδείᾱ (paideíā)
- Ancient Greekἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)
- New Latinencyclopaedīa
- Englishencyclopedia
- EnglishWikipedia
- Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
- Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
- Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
- Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
- Medieval Latinalcoho
- Middle Englishalcofol
- Englishalcohol
- Englishalcoholic
- EnglishWikipediholic
From Wikipedi(a) + -holic.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Wikipediholic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wikipediholic
“Wikipediholic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wikipediholic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Wikipediholic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wikipediholic.
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