[WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Christopher Thieme wrote:
> I'd love to see some psychology-oriented individual do a case study on what
> kind of people are attracted to editing on Wikipedia.  What psychological
> defects lurk behind the computer screens and the keyboards.
> 

We had a conversation on IRC about this once (which has been preserved
for antiquity at [[m:Bash]]) which went downhill rather quickly...
search for "how many Wikipedians have Asperger's syndrome" :)

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