Wiki Diving

[Moonface]

Anyone else here ever go on a random dive into a Wikipedia style site about something in particular and end up spending a while just going down a rabbit hole of various pages?

I noticed I actually do this really often where I'll think about a particular game in some way and end up going to its (Anti)Fandom page to read up on the thing I'm thinking about (even if I know about it already and just want to see if there's any random trivia associated with it I didn't know about) and then I'll see a link to something else in that page and before I know it I've gone through like ten pages of stuff.

I also learned yesterday that Wikipedia has "Random" and "Nearby" searches which I'm sure will end up being something I use when I'm bored and don't know what better to do. 

If anyone else here does anything like this, what leads you to do it and have you ever found anything interesting from doing it?

[ShiraNoMai]

I tend to dive into Wikipedia pages when I want to learn about why something is the way it is, a lot. Mostly for an etymological reason or to verify a fact about a person/event.

Here's a screenshot of my Wikipedia app of all the open tabs I still have from the last time I went deep diving

[Maniakkid25]

I've done this many times on TV Tropes. They call it a Wiki Walk, but it's the same principle: start at one page, click links, realize you are far away from where you started. It's fun to just see where you end up. I've done a few, though not any in recent memory, sadly, so I can't tell you why.

[Mr EliteL]

I have done, when I wanted to learn some basics of mythology and such, a game's own Wiki page, looking at rankings or charts of releases, probably a few other examples I can't think of. I don't stray too far away from my initial searches though, or I do end up somewhere weird/unrelated, realise and head back I guess.

[Kyng]

Yeah, it often happened to me on TV Tropes several years ago .

It happens less often now (since I usually just end up on the same pages I've read several times before) - but, it does still happen on occasion!

[Moonface]

I've done this many times on TV Tropes. They call it a Wiki Walk, but it's the same principle: start at one page, click links, realize you are far away from where you started. It's fun to just see where you end up. I've done a few, though not any in recent memory, sadly, so I can't tell you why.

Ah, I figured it probably had an actual term that wasn't what I went with. I ended up going with Wiki Diving in the sense of it being like dumpster diving; just digging in and seeing what you end up coming across unexpectedly.

I was curious if I've done any other wiki walks since I made this thread, and although I didn't stray outside of the subject matter (since I was on a dedicated wiki again) I spent a good chunk of time on the Deadman Wonderland wiki recently trying to refresh my memory on some things like characters that died or some of the deeper lore of the series. I forgot how messed up some of that stuff was; at times it felt like I was reading lore from something like Bloodborne until I'd remember what subject I was actually reading about.