Obsession with Wikipedia

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I look stuff up on Wikipedia most days.

Dang it. That's what I get for being a fast typer.

I read Wikipedia a lot, too. I've looked up stuff about animals, plants, video games, movies, TV shows, chocolate bars, cereal they don't make any more, virtual pets, dolls and toys from previous decades, national anthems from different countries, pretty much anything that strikes my fancy.

Sounds like a harmless special interest.
I used to like wikipedia until they started the incessant pleadings for donations - its wose than PBS.

I can imagine that Wikipedia is ideal for people with intensely focused interests. I started editing Wikipedia a long time ago; my specialty is taking pages for bands that I really like and building them up to be as comprehensive as humanly possible, extending outward to pages/biographies on their members and albums. Some of the pages I've edited/written are larger than pages for African nations, something which is both awesome and depressing.

Editing Wikipedia is almost like tending to a Bonsai tree: the days and hours of research to provide enough sources for a foundation to the article is like growing it and then the days and hours of editing prose is like tending to it. It's super relaxing.

For about 4 or 5 years I edited or at least checked the same 4 or 5 articles everyday. Since my diagnosis and WP I do this a lot less.

There are definitely a lot of autistic editors there. A lot of discussion and obsession over rules interpretation.

I know how that can feel like, I have quite the obsession when it comes to reading about Space, and the Third Reich there is just so much info on Wikipedia that it feels like it can last forever.

I would bet that wikipedia is mostly managed by aspies.
It's just a great fit for them all around.

I'm another Wikipedia junkie. I'm not on there every day, but usually at least a few times a week. Often my search will begin with curiosity about a place or some scientific thing I read on Science Daily, but then I'll start exploring related items in new tabs and soon I'm reading up on some obscure trivia about something completely unrelated to my original search. I can easily spend hours doing that if I don't check myself.

I've never edited any articles on there, although I've seen occasional errors/ misleading statements on subjects I happen to be knowledgeable about, and the thought has crossed my mind...

I love Wikipedia, for everything!!

It's much better than hanging out doing stupid stuff, right?

true! but at least on wikia software, vandalism can be reverted with one single click.

LOL I was going to point out you have a name like a faucet once, but thought maybe not.

Hmmm. Will, I was going to tell a story of how someone at work called me 'paranoid' in a front of a group in an important meeting, and I did a Google search and came up with a Wikipedia page that had the word Asperger's, which lead to wrongplanet.net, but, I am not finding that page now.