Wiki-fiddler is a derogatory synonym for Wikipedian (more specifically Wikipediholic) apparently coined (ala Googlewashing) by The Register commentator Andrew Orlowski and used in a series of three articles critical of wikipedia: (Wiki-fiddlers defend Clever Big Book in July 2004, and Wikipedia 'to make universities obsolete' and follow-up Wikipedia's Emergent People fail to impress readers (which included quotes from readers' letters) in September 2004).
Ten months after its first appearance (see Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Wiki-fiddler), all relevant google hits for this unstable neologism resolved either to copies of or quotes from the original Register articles or to the weblog of Giolla Decair, whose September 2004 attempt (shortly after publication of Orlowski's third Op-Ed) to create a wikifiddler article was allegedly judged a newbie test and speedily deleted.
External Links
edit- Andrew Orlowski, "Wikipedia's Emergent People fail to impress readers", The Register, 15 September 2004.
- Definition - Content of a hypothetical wikipedia article
VfD
editThis article was deleted from the main namespace in May 2005. The topic seems to have been created and deleted at least half a dozen times (and probably many more), based on a quick survey of the evidence on wikipedia and google.