Bob Dylan Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 The Wikipedia Effect (from urbandictionary) def: Wikipedia Effect is the tendancy for inquisitive people to become caught in an endless series of pages on the popular open-encyclopedia, "Wikipedia", to which they are forced to read every single page they've opened. Motherfucks, I'm so tired of being caught in that. It's fun yeah, but you don't you feel fucking ashamed of yourself when you find yourself with 14 Wikipedia Tabs just awaiting you to read them, probably opening 10 others, bookmarking 10 others since you don't have time to read them all. I mean, FFS, just look at this moment : Red_Book_of_Westmarch High_School_High Story_within_a_story Bob_Vila Cold_opening Professional_foul Hard_Drivin' Equation_of_motion Yoyodyne ARGHHHHHHHHHHH I don't even have time to wank anymore ZELAHLOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chenGOD Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Just recognize that not everything you read on there is necessarily true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage suffice to say you are so fucked if you click that link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 my roommate used to do this all the time on acid or E I'd wake up to piss at 4 in the morning and he'd be like "dude did you know there's a college in the Mall of America?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 I find everything2 is an excellent source of time-wasting. And Encyclopedia Dramatica is much more entertatining than wikipedia. but can be very NSFW so click at own risk. Surprisingly, NSFW also means not safe for school commons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 my roommate used to do this all the time on acid or E I'd wake up to piss at 4 in the morning and he'd be like "dude did you know there's a college in the Mall of America?" irl lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage suffice to say you are so fucked if you click that link wow this is really fucking addictive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 dramatica is just too angry for my liking. I understand that's the point and I do enjoy it sometimes but generally every article is like " is a piece of shit liked by overweight faggots who live in their mum's basement" I can see that. Check out their portal on Wikipedia for some real nerd rage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 dramatica is just too angry for my liking. I understand that's the point and I do enjoy it sometimes but generally every article is like "<x> is a piece of shit liked by overweight faggots who live in their mum's basement" I can see that. Check out their portal on Wikipedia for some real nerd rage. Its kind of interesting when you want to know where a certain meme comes from and where it all went but there is up to 0 quality control (of course not) so many pages are just like you said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Just recognize that not everything you read on there is necessarily true. That makes it worse for me, I follow a bunch of Wikipedia links and then I feel the need to verify it with other sources TV Tropes seems like it is trying to be addictive, the way they ceaselessly use their own obscure terms without explanation means you can hardly read an article without needing to look up some of the words in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiddleBot Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Just recognize that not everything you read on there is necessarily true. That makes it worse for me, I follow a bunch of Wikipedia links and then I feel the need to verify it with other sources Yeah, that and the talk/discussion pages where people are arguing about the claims, POV of the article, etc.. makes for countless hours of edutainment! Really though I kind of prefer wiki as at least it has those resources out in the open. There's accountability built into it.. by comparison when's the last time you saw a page in the Brittanica flagged for inaccuracy.. most people just take it as gospel when it isn't necessarily more accurate at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Super lurker ultra V12 Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 what a boring list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 thanks to you people i've been reading LOTR lore for like 3 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 where do i click?? i want to get addicted! it's a free drug right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 big image and link to tvtropes Yeah tvtropes is the end boss of these things. TV Tropes seems like it is trying to be addictive, the way they ceaselessly use their own obscure terms without explanation means you can hardly read an article without needing to look up some of the words in it I find that part of the fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Just recognize that not everything you read on there is necessarily true. That makes it worse for me, I follow a bunch of Wikipedia links and then I feel the need to verify it with other sources Yeah, that and the talk/discussion pages where people are arguing about the claims, POV of the article, etc.. makes for countless hours of edutainment! Really though I kind of prefer wiki as at least it has those resources out in the open. There's accountability built into it.. by comparison when's the last time you saw a page in the Brittanica flagged for inaccuracy.. most people just take it as gospel when it isn't necessarily more accurate at all the thing with wikipedia though is that it's deliberately trolled, and most of the contributors are not experts.It's great reading stories about world renowned experts not being allowed to contribute their own edits because it's original research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 what a boring list It was just the start. p.s.: STFU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Just recognize that not everything you read on there is necessarily true. That makes it worse for me, I follow a bunch of Wikipedia links and then I feel the need to verify it with other sources Yeah, that and the talk/discussion pages where people are arguing about the claims, POV of the article, etc.. makes for countless hours of edutainment! Really though I kind of prefer wiki as at least it has those resources out in the open. There's accountability built into it.. by comparison when's the last time you saw a page in the Brittanica flagged for inaccuracy.. most people just take it as gospel when it isn't necessarily more accurate at all the thing with wikipedia though is that it's deliberately trolled, and most of the contributors are not experts.It's great reading stories about world renowned experts not being allowed to contribute their own edits because it's original research. truth. and on the other side of the coin you have people like sasha grey who totally game the system to increase their own exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiddleBot Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 yeah or politicians who try to remove criticism from their articles, that kind of stuff. it's hilarious when they get caught, too. but that's why the talk pages are so nice. as for research articles i think that rule is completely 100% fair. you should only be able to use research that has been published in peer-reviewed journals, otherwise you'd be wading through articles published by every joe who decided he figured out the mysteries of the universe on his first trip. featuring such wonders as 'joe's theory of free spiral oblivion orgone energy'.. because like spirals, they're everywhere in like nature, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
posture Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I have so many bookmarked wikipedia pages I've never gotten around to reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 yeah or politicians who try to remove criticism from their articles, that kind of stuff. it's hilarious when they get caught, too. but that's why the talk pages are so nice. as for research articles i think that rule is completely 100% fair. you should only be able to use research that has been published in peer-reviewed journals, otherwise you'd be wading through articles published by every joe who decided he figured out the mysteries of the universe on his first trip. featuring such wonders as 'joe's theory of free spiral oblivion orgone energy'.. because like spirals, they're everywhere in like nature, man. So let's say Einstein wants to post on the Quantum Physics page. Who does he cite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Einstein never got on properly with Quantum Physics, so he'd probably just be editing to call Niels Bohr a cunt or sommat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 i dunno, i thought he got on relatively well with quantum physics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Calx Sherbet Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 i do this with IMDB all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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