"Wikipediholic" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Wikipediholics [plural]
Etymology: From Wikipedi(a) + -holic. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|Wikipedia|-holic|alt1=Wikipedi(a)}} Wikipedi(a) + -holic Head templates: {{en-noun}} Wikipediholic (plural Wikipediholics)
  1. (Wikimedia jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia. Categories (topical): Wiki Related terms: Wikipediholism
    Sense id: en-Wikipediholic-en-noun-NrjHVTqX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -holic

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet)",
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          "ref": "2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A., London: MIT Press, page 157",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, page 53",
          "text": "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.",
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