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{{short description|Navigating from topic to topic while browsing wikis}} |
{{short description|Navigating from topic to topic while browsing wikis}} |
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[[File:Wikipedia Rabbit Hole.jpg|thumb|Illustration of a wiki rabbit hole for a [[T-shirt]].]] |
[[File:Wikipedia Rabbit Hole.jpg|thumb|Illustration of a wiki rabbit hole for a [[T-shirt]]]] |
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The '''wiki rabbit hole''' (or '''wiki black hole''')<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stockton |first=Chrissy |date=January 4, 2014 |title=The 10 Best Wikipedia Black Holes For Curious People (Who Have No Impulse Control) |url=https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/01/the-10-best-wikipedia-black-holes-for-curious-people-who-have-no-impulse-control/ |website=Thought Catalog}}</ref> is the [[learning pathway]] which a reader travels by navigating from [[Article (publishing)|topic]] to topic while browsing [[Wikipedia]] (through [[hyperlinks]] in articles) and other [[wiki]]s. The [[Down the rabbit hole|metaphor of a rabbit hole]] comes from [[Lewis Carroll]]'s 1865 novel ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', in which [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Alice]] begins an adventure by following the [[White Rabbit]] into his [[burrow]]. The [[black hole]] metaphor comes from the idea that the reader is powerfully sucked into a hole from which they cannot escape. |
The '''wiki rabbit hole''' (or '''wiki black hole''')<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stockton |first=Chrissy |date=January 4, 2014 |title=The 10 Best Wikipedia Black Holes For Curious People (Who Have No Impulse Control) |url=https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/01/the-10-best-wikipedia-black-holes-for-curious-people-who-have-no-impulse-control/ |website=Thought Catalog}}</ref> is the [[learning pathway]] which a reader travels by navigating from [[Article (publishing)|topic]] to topic while browsing [[Wikipedia]] (through [[hyperlinks]] in articles) and other [[wiki]]s. The [[Down the rabbit hole|metaphor of a rabbit hole]] comes from [[Lewis Carroll]]'s 1865 novel ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', in which [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Alice]] begins an adventure by following the [[White Rabbit]] into his [[burrow]]. The [[black hole]] metaphor comes from the idea that the reader is powerfully sucked into a hole from which they cannot escape. |
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