Is it normal to go on wikipedia adventures?

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I go on Wikipedia adventures. What is a Wikipedia adventure?

It's what happens when I look up a subject that I am interested in on Wikipedia. From that subject, I will find an interesting link to a related subject page, and from that subject page, I will find more interesting links embedded within the page (often times they are links referencing subjects I don't know about but should know about to better understand the article) and from there, more links and so on and so forth...

Right now, I am on an Astronomical Wikipedia adventure. My curiosity started with a Professor mentioning retrograde orbit (not an Astronomy professor) and curious, I went to look up "Retrograde motion" on Wikipedia. I am now reading about "Hot Jupiters" (super-heated, Jupiter-like planets) and doubtful my adventure will end here.

Does anyone else go on Wikipedia or similar adventures on the internet?

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  • anti-hero
    11 years ago

    Been there, done that.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I do, but I've seen plenty of things on Wikipedia that are 100% wrong, so I never trust anything I read there. It can be useful as a starting point, although - in general - I really wish the site didn't exist.

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    • NotFloydzie
      11 years ago

      Why do you wish the site didn't exist?

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  • charli.m
    11 years ago

    Wikipedia. Youtube. The internet in general. It's stealing my life away :(

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  • Who_Fan4Life
    11 years ago

    Hahahaha, I call this ''Clickipedia.''

    The endless clicking of links. But what I like to do is click on that ''random article'' link at the top left and you'll get the most bizarre pages such as: 'Phenylpropiolic acid' (just clicked), 'Pterophorus aliubasignum' (just clicked) and of course 'The Power & The Passion' (just clicked).

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  • fallingleaveswithfaces123
    11 years ago

    nope,

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    I play the three link game. Keep clicking on the third link till i see a page twice.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    Goodness, yes. I'll go on there for one thing and an hour later I'm on something else. A good example is looking up BDSM and then finding myself in Philosophy.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      Ahahaha, I distinctly recall having a similar adventure.

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  • Nickelbacklover
    11 years ago

    Oh yeah, I LOVE Wikipedia.. I also go on 360cities.net to do what I like to refer to as Internet traveling.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    Yep; happens to me all the time.

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  • GuessWho
    11 years ago

    Yeah, but I do it on YouTube.

    Google is very good at predicting what I like in that column on the right-hand side.

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    • KeddersPrincess
      11 years ago

      I have it real bad on you tube.

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    I learned about various large mammals of the Pleistocene era (which I always internally pronounce as "plasticine era)" last night that way :D Did you know the was once a type of polar bear that probably weighed twice the amount of a modern polar bear? Now you do :D

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      Why thank you ;)

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    going there, will do that

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