What's your most extreme example of Wikipedia Wanderlust??

[Sqube]

There's probably another term for it that I'm not aware of, but Wikipedia Wanderlust is what occurs when you go looking for some very specific thing about the Middle Ages, but end up reading about Cats (the musical, not the animals) through some obscure series of hyperlinks.

So what's your most extreme example?

 

[OdiN]

Thank You Mighty Putty!

 

[warmodder]

Every time I visit that site. It's so addicting.

I didn't buy my psych book in college and thought I'd use wikipedia as a general resource since it was only a 101 class....yea I ended up getting a D.

 

[torpid]

I always end up on an article about a simpsons or seinfeld episode, regardless of where I started. Such as the time I started with wolves and ended up on the seinfeld episode where elaine references the australian dingo kidnapping.

 

[Eli]

It's pretty much over from the first page. You could spend the rest of your life on Wiki at that point, if you wanted to.. lol

 

[HombrePequeno]

I usually end up reading about really obscure battles even if I started out reading about a rock band.

 

[faenix]

I started searching for Ski companies, ended up going through utah, to mormonism, to Mitt Romney, to the Kennedy Family Curse to Greek Shipping Magnate to Paris Hilton.

Then I knew I had to go to sleep. Wikipedia is like drugs.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The real trick is to link back to what you started with. I just went from Taipei 101 -> typhoon -> condensation -> desertification (I had no idea this was even a word) -> nomad -> mongols -> Genghis Khan -> marmot -> Mt. Rainier National Park -> May 5 (my birthday, huzzah) -> Taiwan -> Taipei -> Taipei 101. You can eat up a whole afternoon trying to link back up with where you started, and you learn strange new things in the process (for example, Genghis Khan ate marmots).

Way too easy to get lost on Wikipedia.

 

[m1ldslide1]

I usually go the other direction - start off looking up something practical, end up embroiled in the middle ages for long periods of time. Even got sucked into Chinese military history once, and WOW there is a lot of stuff.

 

[MrPickins]

Every time I go to wikipedia it ends up like an episode of "Connections".

I've literally spent all day going from topic to topic on occasion.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Mt. Rainier National Park -> May 5 (my birthday, huzzah) -> Taiwan

How does that happen? I can figure out the rest of the connections.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Mt. Rainier National Park -> May 5 (my birthday, huzzah) -> Taiwan

How does that happen? I can figure out the rest of the connections.

Mt. Rainier National Park flooded in November 2006, washing out roads and campgrounds. On May 5, 2007, the park reopened to car traffic.

May 5 is celebrated as Buddha's Birthday in Taiwan (along with Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea).

 

[Kntx]

I once ended up reading about honey bees and how to make honey. By that point I had long forgotten where I'd begun.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
The real trick is to link back to what you started with. I just went from Taipei 101 -> typhoon -> condensation -> desertification (I had no idea this was even a word) -> nomad -> mongols -> Genghis Khan -> marmot -> Mt. Rainier National Park -> May 5 (my birthday, huzzah) -> Taiwan -> Taipei -> Taipei 101. You can eat up a whole afternoon trying to link back up with where you started, and you learn strange new things in the process (for example, Genghis Khan ate marmots).

Way too easy to get lost on Wikipedia.

Nice marmot.