Wiki break

A WikiBreak, WikiHoliday, WikiVacation or WikiAbsence is a period when even a Wikiholic is parting from his editing or collaboration on a wiki for a longer period of time.

WikiBreaks are the result of the decision of the Wiki Person departing, not the enforced disability to edit on a wiki like Blocking or Banning which would be in every sense of the word involuntarily.

A mix of WikiBreak and Banning is the SuicideBySysop. If one has inherently decided to leave but somehow knows that one would not have the strength to stay away, one enforces ones own decision by allowing oneself to collide with one or more restrictive or overworked Sysop to ensure one gets banned. By that way one might draw a good amount of attention, disrupt the work of the wiki, may get a feeling of revenge and eventually regret after one succeeded. From the outside SuicideBySysop is indiscernible from getting banned.

The pain involved varies from User to User. Some find it easy to endure, whereas others find the separation agonizing.

The degree of coercion also varies. Some remarkable individuals are actually capable of taking a voluntary wikiholiday: they are to be admired for their strength of character. Others still are forced into it through circumstances beyond their control: it is often at such times that wikiholics discover their condition. Sometimes a wikibreak can be a Template:W by which one expresses hurt feelings.

Reasons to take a WikiBreak	Source of reason	Occasions to come back
You are going on a journey.	Your life	You came back from travelling.
You are a student and you have exams or other pressing school work.	Your life	Your exams are over// holidays
You marry.	Your life	Honeymoon is over
You (get) divorced.	Your life	You decide that your divorce has left you more time to be a Wiki Person
You are neglecting your work and job.	Your mind
You get addicted to a new video game that you have to obsess over for the next few days.	Your life	You defeated the 'Boss' several times.
You find yourself repeatedly assuming bad faith.	Your mind	You learned what J. Krishnamurti meant saying: „To keep observation separate from evaluation is the highest form of human intelligence.“
You are stressed to the point that it affects your editing.	Your mind	You've done all the relaxing you can do and besides, all that talk about relaxation and thinking clearer is baloney anyway.
You have a new girlfriend or boyfriend.	Your life	You find out your new girlfriend or boyfriend is a Wiki Person, too.
Your old girlfriend or boyfriend wants you to spend more time with them.	Your life	Especially when you find that now you've been spending a lot of time discussing, fighting over and making up with said friend.
You have to look for a job.	Your life	What You where looking for was money actually. After You 'found' it, they found You. After you've been arrested and suddenly find yourself with nothing else to do while serving time in jail.
You find yourself making minor edits, in order to use the recent changes page as a discussion.	Your mind	You found somebody in RealLife who really cares for You.
You have to move to a new home.	Your life	You have finished moving.
You have neglected to pay your Internet bill and have been banned from accessing the internet.	Your mind	You decide to give up smoking so that you can pay your Internet bill.
You are injured or sick.	Your life	You've recovered from your sickness.
Your Wikistress is making it hard to work.	Your mind	You've let go of all your Wikistress.
You need time to relax and think, so that when you do return to your wiki, you'll hopefully be refreshed.	Your mind	You finished the last self-improvement book and are eager to try it out in your not so real life first.
Your time on your wiki is having a drastic effect on your life outside of your wiki.	Your mind	You've decided to take a break from your WikiBreak.
Your computer has broken down.	Your life	Since your computer is broken, you find yourself at the library or other publicly accessible computer every day, editing your wiki. Or you get a new one.
There is an emergency in your area.	Your life	You survived and Your computer too :-)
It takes you several hours to make and perfect a single edit, because you're worried your edit will be corrected by someone else.	Your mind
You find yourself checking your watch-list compulsively throughout the day to defend your edits against vandals and other ne'er-do-wells.	Your mind
You're giving up editing your wiki for Wikipedia:Lent, Wikipedia:Hajj or a similar religious observance.	Your life	Your religious observances have been inspiring.
You have been grounded by your parents, business partner or significant other from using the computer.	Your mind	You found a way around that.
You have got a baby.	Your life	Your baby grew up
You are addicted.	Your mind	You are cured from being a Wikipedia:wikiaddict. (It may never happen. Most likely, you will never recover.)
You become disillusioned with the project or haven't received any satisfaction out of editing Wikipedia but don't wish to depart forever.	Your mind
You find yourself suffering from Adminitis.	Your mind	You feel like it.
Your relatives invaded/occupied 'visited' your house.	Your mind	Your relatives (thankfully) left your house.