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"Hotel Wikipedia" is the beloved official theme song forwikipediholics regardless ofmusical preference, and was released as a single in the spring of2004.[citation needed] Based on theEagles'1976 song "Hotel California", it is one of the best-known songs of thewiki-oriented rock era.
Hotel Wiki, Hamburg- On a darkoffice evening,
- Sat down in mychair.
- Sharp smell of stalecoffee
- Circling round in the air.
- Suddenly on thewebpage
- There came a flickering light.
- My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim;
- I had to stop for the night.
- There it was in the link list:
- "Edit page; you'll do well"
- And I was thinking to myself:
- This could beHeaven or this could beHell!
- Then it lit up thequickbar,
- And it showed me the way.
- There werepages begging for clean-up;
- I thought I heard them say:
- Welcome to theHotel Wikipedia
- Such a lovely place
- So much empty space
- Plenty of work at the Hotel Wikipedia
- Any time of year
- You can find us here...
- Its structure'smaze-passage twisted;
- No one knows where it ends.
- It's got a lot of moneymirror sites,
- That it callsfriends.
- And in thedance of the pages
- Editors sweat -
- Some change to remember,
- Some change toforget.
- So I choseContributions,
- Tell me, what have I done?
- And it said:
- This is all that you've been good for, here,
- sincetwo thousand and one.
- And still those pages beg changes
- From far away,
- Keep you up in the middle of the night
- Just to hear them say...
- Welcome to the Hotel Wikipedia
- Such a lovely place
- So much empty space
- They're typing it in at the Hotel Wikipedia
- Things that you can do—
- Revertvandals, too—
- Many links in thePortal
- Disambigs won't suffice
- And users said,
- We are all just prisoners here
- Of our own device.
- And in theMost Requested
- The list of pages increased;
- They edit with their steely knives,
- But they just can't kill thebeast.
- Last thing I remember,
- I couldn't take any more.
- I had to find the passage back
- to the life I had before.
- Relax, said theRambot,
- We are programmed to receive.
- You can log out any time you like
- But you can never leave.
