Just did a quick google search for the word 'Mania'. The definition I got
is interesting.
I think with such a definition, it is REALLY worth it having a conversation
relating to the name.
Wiki-mental-illness? Like seriously? All these years? For someone like
myself who the word 'mania' never crossed the mind to find the meaning, the
term 'Wikimania' didn't mean anything except a conference for Wikimedians
around the world in general.
But looking up the word paints a whole new picture. Like seriously?
Mania: "mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria,
delusions, and overactivity."
Woow.
On Thursday, November 3, 2016, Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Sorry for my bluntness, but... are we REALLY having
this conversation?
We're about to question our annual summit's name after 12 editions? Is it
really a problem?
L.
Il 03 nov 2016 14:29, "Chris Keating" <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> ha
scritto:
> Well, the idea of "-mania" meaning "collective outpouring of
enthusiasm"
> rather than "mental illness" dates to at least the 1960s with Beatlemania,
> even if the original use of the formulation -
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania - was intended to have
> clinical meaning.
>
> I am unaware of any actual objections to this usage from, for instance,
> psychiatrists or mental health organisations.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Stuart Prior <
> stuart.prior(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> "Mania" is not a word where the meaning has completely changed, and is
>> still evidently used in current psychiatry.
https://en.wikiped
>>
ia.org/wiki/Mania#References
>>
>> A prescriptivist view of the word would be deciding what it *doesn't*
>> mean, as much as what it *does*.
>> Gordo is rightly pointing out that nowadays it just has more meanings,
>> and has stigmatising qualities like the words "lame",
"retard" etc. And we
>> should think about that as a movement that tries to be inclusive.
>>
>> Personally I've always thought that Wikimania needed a name change
>> (Wikimedia Conference needs a name change too). WikiGlobal? WikiSummit?
>> WikiFest?
>>
>> S
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3 November 2016 at 12:54, Stephan Schulz <schulz(a)eprover.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy
>>>
>>> > On 03 Nov 2016, at 13:52, Pierre-Selim <pierre-selim(a)huard.info>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I'm not specially shocked. In France we have a video game retail
>>> company called Micromania (based on microcomputer and mania), who targeted
>>> video game player (I don't think the name of the company is confused by
>>> anyone as a medical condition or an insult).
>>> >
>>> > Long time ago I heard a good joke about the naming of the conference:
>>> it should be called the Wikimedia Conference and what is call now the
>>> Wikimedia Conference should probably be called Wikimania
>>> >
>>> > 2016-11-03 13:28 GMT+01:00 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>om>:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Is it proper and correct to use the term "mania"?
>>> >
>>> >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania
>>> >
>>> > Would we say "WikiMad" or WikiCrazy"?
>>> >
>>> > Gordo
>>> >
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