I'm on day 20 of a wiki walk.

Has anyone seen the above troper come back yet?

I'm into day 7 myself, I think. I have 130 tvtrope tabs open on one of the ''two'' computers I'm wiki walking with simultaneously (one at work, one at home). Every time Firefox restarts it freezes my computer for 2-3 minutes loading all the pages I've waded to and ''haven't even got around to read''.

I WikiWalk through life. I've never pulled an all-nighter for school, but I've completely lost a night multiple times for an out-of-control session. Seeing as I've got a short attention span and an addiction to useless information, this site is like crack to me. I can always quit though... right?

No you Can't, and are you me?

Well, I've been coming up with a video game (although I'm not sure how to code it just yet). One weapon, which would be included in the sequel if there is one, started as a flaming sword. It is now a flaming chainsaw made out of crystalline ice. (Flaming sword #QUOTE# flaming weapon #QUOTE# flaming chainsaw #QUOTE# elemental weapons #QUOTE# flaming ice chainsaw #QUOTE# flaming crystal ice chainsaw.)

Also, the main recurring setting started as a room in a college dorm. It is now an enormous city suspended on top of a 16 km-tall pin, complete with elementary school, high school, college, university, airport, mall, police department, at least 20 distinct housing areas, fire department, Cape Canaveral (which was moved from its original location, obviously), and so on. Everyone enrolled in the college uses giant robotic legs for transportation, when not using the city's teleporters. There are sharks, cephalopods, kittens, dinosaurs, and bizarre amalgamations such as the cephalokittens and the sharkosaurs. The library is run by Santa Claus (yeah, I'm really stooping low enough to make fun of the beloved children's character). As should be obvious, I'm a fan of MahouSenseiNegima. (Part of my train of thought involves going through MahouSenseiNegima to ElaborateUniversityHigh to... well, I'm not even sure what came next anymore. And I haven't even mentioned the loony professors (like the one who fights crime by night while wearing a Spock costume), or how {{Batman}} is the dean.

Okay, I've checked, and ElaborateUniversityHigh led to the addition of the university and the high school, which led to the addition of the elementary school. This led to the large size of the city, which necessitated some method(s) of transportation... which led to teleporters and giant robotic legs. I don't have much programming experience yet, though, and it'll be the first game I've ever made, so don't hold your breath waiting for it.

...Now that I think about it, it saves time if I don't think about my thought process. On a related note, I've downloaded RPG Maker, so that should help.

It didn't. It doesn't seem to do [=TRPGs=].

In the Real Life section of the main article, it mentions a game called Wikiball. I have a friend who has come up with a variation: Jesus Wikiball. In most cases, you can get to the article on Jesus within six clicks.

One can also do this with Hitler, through pathways involving such diverse things as Freemasonry, the transitive property of equality, and dynamic equilibrium. (Try those yourself.)

Tried that with one of the Articles of the Day, got to Hitler from ''Aardonyx'' (a dinosaur) in six clicks. Too easy.

This was even more easier that this troper thought. I went from Boyle's Law (a homework)>> Ideal gas law >> August Krönig >> Germany >> Hitler. 6 clicks, like the one above me

Five clicks: Eladrin >> {{Fantasy}} >> JRRTolkien >> Standard German >> WorldWarII >> AdolfHitler. (Would also work for anything that happens to link to "Fantasy", of course.)

Four clicks: Leon Sinks >> United States >> Nazi Germany >> Adolf Hitler. I then did it once more and again managed four clicks: Australian Superkart Championship >> Australia >> World War II >> Adolf Hitler. I'm going to keep trying until I manage to get there in three clicks, or until I get bored.

One click, twice over. Today's featured article is St Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao. It has direct links to both Jesus ''and Hitler''. I think I have either won or lost this game but I'm not sure which.

I know a person who got to Hitler ''just by clicking the Random''.

My friends and I play a game where the goal is to, by process of logical connections, go from something random to another something random. I always win, with the most weirdest being Horse to Coconut. I won thanks to TV tropes. Horse hooves were sounded by coconuts. The rest had odd thirteen long trains.

This troper calls it train-hopping. It seems only other Cloudcuckoolanders or people who know her well know what she's talking about. Maybe people would understand her terminology more if she used the phrase WikiWalk instead, but TV Tropes has ruined her vocabulary enough as it is.

A very odd Wiki Walk started at More Dakka and ended at Yaoi Guys. More Dakka-> There is No Kill Like Overkill-> Cherry Tapping-> Finger Poke of Doom-> Poke The Poodle-> Noble Demon-> Defector From Decadence-> Rebellious Princess-> Pimped Out Dress-> Costume Porn-> Bling of War-> Impossibly Cool Clothes -> Clothing Damage-> Shirtless Scene-> Yaoi Guys...

This troper, when bored, will go to this site, hit 'random item' a few times, and (unless the database decides to send me to a lot of shows I've never seen) will usually in a few minutes be able to stay occupied for ''hours''. The tabs function on Mozilla Firefox often also leads to opening an interesting link in a new window, Wiki Walking ''miles'' away from whatever started that link, and then going back to it. It gets even worse on mostly blue entries where I will start at least eight wiki walks in tabs plus one wiki walk in the original tabs. Heaven help me when I have several tabs waiting and then wander to a largely blue entry.

One (untraceable) one started at ''{{Enchanted}}'' and ended at the TvTropesWikiDrinkingGame. And then from there to PrecisionFStrike.

It takes one click to get from TvTropesWikiDrinkingGame to PrecisionFStrike.

After reading somewhere it was possible to get from pasta to transexual on Wikipedia in six clicks, this troper attempted to do so. While eventually managing it, he had about ten other tabs open totally unrelated to either end by the time he made it.

One possible five-step route for that, in case you're curious: Pasta > Chinese people > Sinophobia > Transphobia(via the right sidebar "Discrimination"; you have to click the "show" link by "Social" under "Specific forms") > Transsexualism.

Another, in four clicks: Pasta > India > Liberal Democracy > Homosexuality (Then go down to Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) topics and find Gender identities / Sexual identities) > Transsexualism.

Pasta > Jerusalem Talmud > Jew > Judaism > LGBT topics and Judaism > Transgenderism and religion > Transgenderism and religion

{{Trope-tan}} somehow connected me to DarthWiki/PaintTheHeroBlack. Ironically, I nearly wiki-walked ''back'' to Trope-Tan from DarthWiki/PaintTheHeroBlack (she has an entry on that page, but it isn't mentioned on hers) before noticing I still had her tab open. Another tab, on a Wiki Walk also starting at Trope-Tan, holds HypercompetentSidekick.

This troper has noticed a reoccuring pattern to their wiki walks. No matter what they started out with, there is a high probability of them ending up reading something to do with Japan.

The thought processes of someone with ADD or ADHD are basically just constant Wiki Walks. This Troper will start trying to remember where she left her soda and end up with going over the mental 3-day run in Majora's Mask. And the thoughts skip so often that This Troper comes to a new subject every few seconds. Actually, the mental Wiki Walk helps This Troper sleep...

GET. OUT. OF. MY. HEAD. and on a trivial note, going from a google search for Digital Pets to reading about ALICE (a chatbot) is one of my more sane wiki walks. oh, and if people ever get this troper involved in some game of Wiki tag, there's a good chance it'll take a long time...

I do the same thing. To the extent where I'm known in my family to not have a train of thought, but an ATV.

As a mental exercise, when she catches herself in a mental WikiWalk, this troper likes to try and retrace her steps back to the originating thought. A WikiMoonWalk, if you will.

I sometimes keep track of conversations that end up like this. We once had a conversation that started at "Milkshake" and ended at "The Vagina Dimension" - which one of my friends decided to illustrate for us...

This Troper recently did a writing exercise for his creative writing class. The first sentence is "For most of my life, my room had no view". The last line was wish I had a [[NiceHat sombrero with a parrot-operated gun turret inside it."]] Note that there was actually a logical progression, and that got from the first sentence to the last in under a page. And I have large handwriting.

This troper's family conversations over dinner sometimes go through massive cases of this, often due to his dad steering the conversation in odd directions. A conversation can go from Kurt Russell to religion to the civil war, until finally someone ends up having to look up the correct lyrics to Ringo Starr's "No No No Song".

One time This troper tripped acid, he regretted not having his laptop to at least track his mental journey. Later dosed with his laptop present and can testify: it doesn't work. What started out an exploration of the Book of Five Rings led to TVTropes, and This troper still doesn't know which way he turned.

This trope is the reason for this Troper's appearance here, and also a major contributing factor to his ability to multi-task. Multi-track Wiki Walking!

This troper once had a conversation at work that started at crime-scene cleanup services and ended at marinara sauce.

That wouldn't be difficult, would it? I mean, many crime scenes wouldn't that unlike marinara sauce. The sort with tomato and prawns, unseeing boiled-eyeball-shaped oysters...

This troper once went on a Wiki Walk here: ParentalSubstitute > TreasurePlanet > DeathGlare > DrivesLikeCrazy > ColorFailure > BlueWithShock > NoodleIncident > DrunkenMaster > BottleFairy > OlderThanDirt > ChessWithDeath. ''Huh?''

ChainsOfLove > BrainBleach > HotSkittyOnWailordAction > BoldlyComing > TheMcCoy > StrawmanEmotional > AgentMulder > AgentScully > TheWorldEndsWithYou > CallARabbitASmeerp > BuffySpeak > GratuitousFrench > TheMuppets.

This Troper does this all the time-both in his head and out.

Happened very often and still happens frequently enough with this troper, both in the sense of using a wiki and in the sense of a runaway thought process. The latter especially while waiting for a bus.

One of this troper's favorite {{WikiWalk}}s was on the StarTrek wiki Memory Alpha. She had gone from the article on Spock to the page detailing Klingon marriage ceremonies (or something like that) throughout the course of 6 hours.

This troper has a series of Wikipedia walks connecting fictional robots with children and young adult authors. Example: ED-209>stop motion> stop motion film> Fantastic Mr. Fox> Roald Dahl.

Okay, so, I have a tendency to open an excessive number of tabs rather than just use the back button. This is my after-action report for the wiki walk I've been doing for a few hours. Hot dog -> Salt -> Iodine Deficiency -> Mental Retardation -> Psychosis -> Salvia Divinorum/LSD/Hippy stuff -> Sexual Revolution. I did a wiki walk that started with hot dogs and ended with, ahem, hot dogs.

This troper has fun occasionally going on a Wiki Walk. I don't remember how I did it, though, but on TheOtherWiki, I somehow managed to navigate from the article on RobotChicken to the article on SesameStreet pretty quickly.

This is TVTropes. If you're here at all, chances are you're doing a WikiWalk which has taken up most of your time for the last few months. I still wonder how I got from ThisIsADrill to AnythingThatMoves...

[=WikiWalks=] for this troper commonly accumulate more tab browsing clutter than anything else due to the habit of opening multiple links from each page, only to end up reading a fraction of these pages and leaving the rest unattended for up to months. The problem was overcome by dumping [=URLs=] of both read and unread pages to a Notepad text file and never referring to them again. When a good 70% of e-hoarded links are the result of [=WikiWalks=], it makes you wonder...

My very first WikiWalk after discovering {{Wikipedia}} turned to this. Started at 1984, moved to dystopias in general, then to {{Half Life}} and Half Life 2 (and most of the sub-pages), then to the Soviet Union (including various periods, departments and personalities within the USSR), then to religion in the Soviet Union, then to religious demographics within the Russia, then to shamanism, animism, totemism and, finally, {{Otherkin}}. I had many [=WikiWalks=] after that, but my first time was my most special.

A friend of this troper got from "Biological Warfare" to the "Care Bears" with only internal links.

Here's my wiki walk. Read it backwards because I got to the end and went back through it.

Home Page > Tv Tropes Wiki Drinking Game > Duct Tape For Everything > Hidden Supplies > Crazy Prepared > Rummage Fail > Bag of Holding > Pocket Dimension > Another Dimension > Dream Land > Dream Sequence > Imagine Spot > Commercials Tropes > Dramatization > Do Not Attempt > Don't Try This At Home > Percussive Maintenance > Get A Hold Of Yourself Man > Ruined FOREVER > They Changed It Now It Sucks > Art Evolution > Three Panel Soul > Paper Thin Disguise > Totem Pole Trench > Human Ladder > Chain Of People > Just In Time > Race Against The Clock > Time Bomb > Why Am I Ticking > Explosive Leash > Your Head A Splode > Stuff Blowing Up > Rebus Bubble > Idea Bulb > Light Is Good > Cue The Sun > Against the Setting Sun > Riding Into The Sunset > Wiki Walk

This troper finds that TvTropes [=WikiWalks=] are way more fun if you avoid anything to do with Haruhi, Chekhov, Xanatos, Badasses, Discworld and Series/DoctorWho. On the other wiki, this troper started with Anton Chekhov, inventor of the ChekhovsGun) and ended up in flouroantimonic acid, the strongest acid known to man, all by using internal links.

I once recorded one of my wiki walks on The Other Wiki, in a multipage document. Apparently, I started at The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (my favorite band at the time), and ended up reading about kitsunes. The full list is far too huge to post here, but it included articles on Transformers, Freddy Krueger, goth subculture, Six Flags, God, and cheerleading.

Part of the reason for This Troper's AttentionDeficitOohShiny is the fact that she's constantly taking Wiki Walks of the mental variety. Also, she has been taking a Wiki Walk on here ever since one of her friends linked her to TV Tropes because she was bored and needed a way of killing some time. And her parents wonder why she always suddenly starts staring off into space and not paying attention to what they're saying to her... in her mind, porn links to PinkyAndTheBrain, along with everything else she's ever thought of, if you just follow the links between for long enough... I'll stop before I suddenly start ratting off something random, via taking a mental Wiki Walk and typing every step. EDIT: The main problem I (yeah, first Troper again) have with these mental wiki walks is that I have no ability to control them, and they sometimes lead to activities other than the thing I'm in the middle of doing and demand that I stop and do that instead. The amount of unfinished work I have is too much to list, and it in fact would be much easier to list all the things I HAVE finished than to list a few things I haven't. Things I haven't finished include two collections of free DeviantART avatars, last night's rice, and almost every game I've ever played. Things I have finished include a drawing of an Eevee, my breakfast, and E-102 Gamma's story in ''SonicAdventure DX: Director's Cut''.

Seconded. Who said Wiki Walks have to originate mainly from the Internet? In real life, the catch-all word for it is "daydreaming," but that term is hardly ever connected to "(long, long,) trail of thought." What I am: Thankful to live in such a interesting world. #QUOTE#"The journey is the destination."

First Troper again. It seems that my Wiki Walks involving either ''Flicky'' or ''ConkersBadFurDay'' has become a RunningGag. Last night, I ended up deciding to look up the latter of those two games, found out it had an Xbox remake (albeit a rather cencored one), and as I may end up having an Xbox I decided to see if there were any other games I'd be interested in. Long story short, I started by looking up ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' on here, and ended up looking up 5 Xbox games on TheOtherWiki. In no particular order, they are: ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', ''Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'', ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'', ''ShadowTheHedgehog'', and ''Sonic Adventure 2''. Today, I took a wiki walk that spanned 5 pages and 3 sites. It started on this and ended on this. The full wiki walk this time was as follows: Jet the Hawk - Babylon Rogues - Flicky (this time via the "Read more" bar at the bottom, which lists 3 random pages) - Woody Woodpecker - Hollywood Walk of Fame. When I was done I wasn't sure how I even got there, and had to check the list of what the history for that Firefox tab was.

My wiki walks often lead to all sorts of FanDisservice. Since I don't actually look at the URL I'm wiki walking to, I had no idea the next link was going to lead to "penis" or "masturbation" or some sexual position I've never heard of. Often this happens when trolls change it to link to those pages.

I was once talking about ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', and I mentioned it's basically a parody of ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' off its antidepressants. Since the guy I was talking to was too old to have watched the show, that then led to a two-hour lecture on the first season of ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. Yeah.

This troper opens new articles in new tabs frequently. Earlier today, he had over 100 TvTropes tabs open, as well as about 30 from TheOtherWiki (at other times, there have been much more).

I once got on {{Wikipedia}} for a school project. Three hours later, it was time for bed, and I hadn't written down a single thing, but I knew P!nk's real name, so it wasn't completely wasted.

This Troper started out her internet browsing today by looking up the book {{Graceling}} on this wiki. How she has ended up on this page is not entirely clear, but she now has 43 tabs open (a relatively low number for her) and is still going...

The random function gave me the IxiaAndSitia page. Several clicks later I had ended up at SuzumiyaHaruhi.

I wiki walk through my mind to make songs, like I get an idea, then a similar concept, then a similar concept and then I create another song based upon a different concept.

I also Wiki Walk through life, knowledge is power! I can't actually remember how I got here. before I was on Fan Speak, but then Fan Speak related to Wiki speak, which related to Wiki, which I read, then I got to here!

This troper and her best friend although said best friend has it worse. She has learned to see when his mind takes wiki walks while talking to him on a serious subject and lassos him back. {{HilarityEnsues}} when the both of them take simultaneous wiki walks over a topic and compare junctions, or add.

I started at DanBrowned. I ended up here. Don't ask me how; I've been walking for four hours.

Wiki Walk? I call them Wiki Races!

Annebeeche: Forget the internet--I go on long WikiWalks in my ''brain''. Say I'm working on a piece of homework for Hamlet: >> Hamlet takes place in Denmark >> which is in Scandinavia >> I like Scandinavian culture >> I like Norse mythology >> The Norse gods are amusing >> Anglo-Saxons used to worship them too >> Anglo-Saxons wrote Beowulf >> I'm writing something based on Beowulf >> hahaha in my story Beowulf is an awkward teenage weakling >> he's also fun to draw let's draw Beowulf >> he was forced to go fight Grendel by his uncle because his uncle's a jerk >> his Uncle is the King of Geatland >> hey Hamlet's uncle is the king too >> oh wait I was supposed to be working on Hamlet >> I like Hamlet >> I like Shakespeare >> My favorite of his plays is Macbeth >> I remember I cast Ewan McGregor as Macbeth once >> Ewan McGregor is sexy in a kilt >> Ewan McGregor is sexy in general >> his role as Obi Wan could have saved the Star Wars prequels >> too bad the prequels sucked so hard that no amount of Ewan McGregor could have saved them >> George Lucas should not have directed them and/or written the screenplays >> Irvin Kershner should have instead because Empire Strikes Back was the best out of all three Star Wars films >> the original Star Wars was awesome >> Star Trek is cool too >> Gene Roddenberry died 20 years ago >> Some of his ashes were shot into space in a lipstick tube >> Supposedly Disney was cryogenically frozen >> but I know that's bullshit >> I love Disney's animated classics >> The Lion King is one of my favorites >> Scar is probably one of the best villains in all of Disney history >> The Lion King was loosely based on Hamlet >> Hey, wasn't I supposed to be working on Hamlet?

This is the main reason why I don't do very well at school, despite the fact that I understand the material.

The fact that I am so susceptible to WikiWalks by ''nature'' is the reason why I will never be able to responsibly use the Internet. (Unless I'm given enough time to come back around, that is)

I got from ShadowOfTheColosuss to YouTube videos of sphynx cats giving birth.

Here is the tab count over time: Jan 2, 21 tabs. Jan 3, 46 tabs. Jan 7, 184 tabs. Jan 8, 202 tabs. Jan 22, '''326 fa-reaking tabs.'''

For my second wiki walk, I have: Jan 17, 103 tabs. Jan 21, 212 tabs.

I will be splitting that first walk into seven different ones with 50 tabs each (26 for the last one.) I might split the second into 5 of the same.

Please post a screenshot of Task Manager/whatever utility where I can see tha RAM usage of your browser.

I've managed to do this with print reference works, most recently ''The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy''.

I somehow managed to go from (something I can't remember, Dragon Age 2, probably) to Beat to Girl Genius to running through the Useful Notes on the US (and I '''live here''') one-by-one until I forced myself to stop at our educational system. Well, then to here.

Tropers/{{Owfin}}: The other day, I took a nine step wiki walk to go from TheAmericanCivilWar to MysteryScienceTheater3000. And I repeated a page once, so it was actually eight steps.

For the love of all things clickable, this deascribes every single time I open a browser. I remember once I was on a page about the first atomic bomb and I somehow got to HetaliaBloodbath2010 ... There was also another time where looking up Papmlona's Running of the Bulls led to Romeo and Juliet. Someone needs to drag me away from the compy before I click any more; I have 3 tabs up; "Multiple Personality Disorder" (Started as Jackie Kennedy), a blog on growing tomatoes (started as Sealand), and this very page (started as H.P. Lovecraft). GAH, HELP ME.

"Birdwalking", huh? I didn't know there was a word for one of my favorite pasttimes in grade school. Sometimes it was all that kept me awake. Any teacher appreciates feedback that shows someone's listening, and the more apathetic the rest of the class seems, the more likely they are to drift into tangents this way.

You are totally right, it's like if the teachers were afraid of DeadAir.

When i don't have anything to do, i'm quite suceptible to mental wikiwalks while following a path of thinking but every time i realize this i try to get back in the road, sometimes is easy, other times not so much.

Also my classroom is an expert in birdwalking teachers, to the point we know the private lives of many of them.

This troper, after closing her latest tab on something called "Prosopamnesia", then reading the wiki page on Saya No Uta(Which I will never do again), looked through her tabs, consisting of about 20 wiki pages on batman villians, bizarre and rare diseases, and a list of House episodes. This WikiWalk started by looking up Catwoman.

This troper and her best friend have joint WikiWalks. We might start by discusing something serious, like gay marriage, and eventually end up with something completely random, such as people who paint their animals.

This troper suffers from this almost every night; y'know, the kind that, if left unchecked, will get you laid off. That last bit happened. I still do this. And sometimes, a similar sort of thing happens when I look back on old college files of mine. Good times.

This troper once went on TheOtherWiki to look up JumpingFlash, and ended up at "hot saucing"(the practice of putting Tabasco on a child's tongue for swearing/lying/talking back).