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 -
- 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.
wikipedia.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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