Wikipediholic

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noun

Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

nounWikipediholic (plural Wikipediholics)

plural Wikipediholics

  1. 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 157

    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.

    2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53

Origin

  1. Proto-Polynesian*witi
  2. Hawaiianwiki
  3. Hawaiianwikiwiki
  4. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  5. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  7. Old Englishwebb
  8. Middle Englishweb
  9. Englishweb
  10. EnglishWikiWikiWebclip.
  11. Englishwiki
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  13. Ancient Greekἐν (en)
  14. Ancient Greekἐν- (en-)
  15. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  16. Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
  17. Proto-Hellenic*kʷókʷlos
  18. Proto-Hellenic*kúklos
  19. Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
  20. Ancient Greekἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
  21. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-
  22. Proto-Hellenic*pā́wits
  23. Ancient Greekπαῖς (paîs)
  24. Ancient Greekπαιδεύω (paideúō)
  25. Ancient Greekπαιδείᾱ (paideíā)
  26. Ancient Greekἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)
  27. New Latinencyclopaedīa
  28. Englishencyclopedia
  29. EnglishWikipedia
  30. Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
  31. Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
  32. Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
  33. Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
  34. Medieval Latinalcoho
  35. Middle Englishalcofol
  36. Englishalcohol
  37. Englishalcoholic
  38. EnglishWikipediholic

From Wikipedi(a) + -holic.

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APA

Wikipediholic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wikipediholic

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Chicago

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