I have decided to keep the original version of the
Wikipediholic Test because only TRUE Wikipediholics can finish taking the test. I believe it should be kept, so here it is. Sadly, it has to be done manually...
This page contains material that is kept because it is considered
humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.
If you're not sure if you are a
wikipediholic, you should take this test.
The point value of answering 'yes' to each question is listed in parentheses ( ) at the end of the question. The higher the result, the more likely it is that you are a Wikipediholic.
New questions and modifications are of course welcome—good questions are those that measure current
addiction (e.g., "have you edited a page in the last week", not "have you ever edited a page"), on the hypothesis that Wikipediholicism can be cured, or at least controlled to some degree. Formats should be added as #ENTRY (point value[, additional notes]) in order to be compatible with the automated version.
Give yourself at least 2 hours and 45 minutes because there are more than 1,302 questions!
If you check off all the boxes, you will receive 6791.45214451919 at last count.
The highest score possible from checking boxes is 114356.161020580796 at last count, which scored by
ST47 and his bot.
Current revision: -
The test
Completing the Wikipediholic Test
Have you managed to fully complete this test by answering all the set questions? (10)
Because you're a Wikipediholic? (20)
Because you cheated? (-10, no cheating!)
Have you managed to complete the manual version in 2007 *or later*? (250)
...more than 5 times? (50)
...more than 25 times? (200)
...more than 150 times?!? (1000)
Do you protest the above question because it would take up more time than is necessary to complete the
Infinite monkey theorem? (10)
Had you read that article before encountering it here? (18)
Edited it? (30)
Did you take the test once then come back up here, realising you couldn't answer this until you'd finished, adding an extra 20 points on to your score? (22)
Do you think completing the test is impossible? (-1)
How often do you use Wikipedia?
Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a week? (1)
Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a day? (3)
Do you typically use Wikipedia for more than an hour a day? (5)
... more than two hours? (10)
... more than four hours? (15)
... more than six hours? (25)
... more than nine hours? (40)
... more than twelve hours? (50)
... more than eighteen hours? (100)
... more than twenty-four hours? (-500 for lying)
Do you protest the above question because your planet has more than 24 hours in a day? (500, and please contact
SETI)
... exactly 24 hours, or how long a day is? (200)
Do you edit without breaks to eat? (50)
... or drink? (75)
... or to sleep? (100)
... or to go to the toilet? (100)
... because you edit Wikipedia on the toilet? (50)
... because you wear a
youth or
adultdiaper so you can spend more time using Wikipedia? (120)
... because you don't edit for that long at a time? (-2)
Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (10)
... more than 70%? (20)
... more than 80%? (30)
... more than 90%? (40)
... more than 95%? (60)
... more than 99.9%? (100)
... 100%? (150)
... just slightly less than 100% solely to look up information to add to Wikipedia? (100)
... are you angry that these questions don't work for you, since you are constantly on other websites researching and writing Wikipedia articles leaving little time actually on the Wikipedia web site? (50^2)
... less than 10%? (-10... and you call yourself a Wikipediholic)
... less than 0.1%? (-100; you may leave now)
... 0%, except for taking this test? (-500; What are you doing here?)
Have you been using Wikipedia for so long you forgot today is your day off? (5)
Do you want to protest the above question because today is not your day off? (3)
But you're on Wikipedia anyway? (9)
... because you never get a day off from wikipedia? (50)
Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's
bandwidth? (7)
Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (5)
Do you already spend more than 90% of your daily time here? (75)
Have you been using (editing) Wikipedia for a day to a week? (2)
A week to a month? (5)
A month to two? (12)
Two months to three? (25)
Three months to six? (60)
Six months to nine? (75)
Nine months to a year? (90)
A year to two? (120)
Two years to three? (150)
Three years to four? (225)
Four years to five? (300)
More than five years? (400)
Only to vandalize? (-900, and a ban)
More than seven years? (-1000, for lying)
Do you only use Wikipedia while browsing other sites at the same time? (-3)
Between 90 and 100% of the time? (-3)
Between 60 and 90% of the time? (-2)
Less than 60% of the time? (-1)
Less than 20% of the time? (1)
Never? (6)
Do you want to protest the above question because you only browse the other sites for research? (2)
Is that research for Wikipedia articles? (15)
Do you have Wikipedia bookmarked? (3)
Is Wikipedia set as your home page? (10)
Have you had Wikipedia open in more than one window/tab at a time? (1)
More than five? (5)
More than ten? (10)
More than twenty? (20)
More than thirty? (30)
More than forty? (40)
More than fifty? (50)
Enough to crash your browser? (50)
Enough to crash your computer? (50)
Do you protest the above question because it gives points to people using an
inferior operating system? (25)
Did you have to restrain yourself from redirecting the above link to your least favorite operating system? (10)
Have you used Wikipedia on more than one browser at a time? (5)
To see how a page you edited resolved? (15)
On a text-only browser, such as Lynx? (25)
Where you use Wikipedia
Have you used Wikipedia from more than one computer in the past week? (5)
... more than five? (50)
... more than ten? (100)
... more than twenty? (200)
... did you edit Wikipedia on those computers? (20)
Have you used Wikipedia from more than one operating system in the past week? (5)
Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (10)
Did your laptop's fan go on by itself while you were at Wikipedia? (20)
Did your laptop run out of electricity because you were using wikipedia for so long? (25)
Do you browse Wikipedia on a cell phone, PDA,
PlayStation Portable (or any other mobile gadget) browser? (15)
Do you edit Wikipedia on that browser? (25)
Do you do anything other than Wikipedia on that browser? (-5)
If you use dial-up, is your phone bill larger than before you discovered Wikipedia? (5)
Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia while paying long distance charges to connect to the Internet? (10)
Do you protest the last question because you don't have dial-up? (1)
Do you hook up to Wikipedia over a wireless Internet connection? (2)
Do you edit Wikipedia articles while over such a connection? (9)
Is that connection in a restaurant? (7)
Are you on a date in this restaurant? (30)
Or do you protest to the last question because you are too young to do so? (10)
Did you pick that restaurant because of the wireless connection? (5)
Do you ever go to other restaurants? (-3)
Do you protest that question because you only go to other restaurants with a wireless internet connection? (9)
Do you edit Wikipedia while waiting for your meal? (5)
... at the restaurant? (35)
... during your meal? (25)
... while eating? (40)
... with one hand on the keyboard, and one on your food? (50)
... without washing your hands? (10)
... with one foot on the food and two hands on the keyboard? (100)
... without washing your foot/feet? (40)
... with your mouth in the food and two hands on the keyboard? (120)
Are you on
Lufthansa flight 411D, which has wireless access to the Internet during flight? (25)
Are you eating your meal on said flight while taking this test or writing an article? (60)
Did you choose this flight over another because of the access to Wikipedia? (140 plus a point for every $10 more you paid for this flight than the one you would have taken)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (27, and an electrical shock risk)
Do you work on Wikipedia in almost zero light because of an electrical power failure? (27)
Did you immediately just try to think of ways to get on Wikipedia with no electricity after you read the last question? (18)
Does it not matter because your home is
off-the-grid? (52)
... for the sole purpose of editing Wikipedia? (100)
While at a party or visiting a significant other, have you found yourself wanting to check your watchlist? (10)
Did you ask somebody if you could use their computer to check Wikipedia? (50)
Did you leave the party/significant other so you could check it? (100)
Do you actually use Wikipedia at public computers, even though some pages advise you not to? (5)
Or do you uncheck the "Remember Me" button when logging in? (5)
... do you always do so, even at home? (10)
When you use Wikipedia
Do you use the
shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3)
Have you gotten ideas about articles from your dreams? (40)
Have you edited until 1 o'clock in the morning? (5)
... until 4:00 AM? (15)
... until 7:00 AM? (30)
... until 10:00 AM? (60)
Did you give yourself 140-146 points since it is always 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, or 8:00 somewhere? (3 bonus points for cleverness :))
Do you edit Wikipedia at night (i.e. after midnight) consuming drinks to keep you up? (4)
...or do you stay up late to edit without the help of drinks? (4)
Do you want to protest the last questions because you are under the legal drinking age in your country? (3)
Or because it did not say it was an alcoholic drink? (0.4)
Or because you don't like to drink? (1)
Because the quality of your Wikipedia edits drops? (10, that's the "spirit"!)
Do you hold Wikipedia nights, that is, nights when you intentionally go to bed late, after spending a certain number of hours editing Wikipedia? (5)
Do you get people to join you in such an event? (16)
Do you make it a party? (20)
Did practically nobody come because they don't like wikipedia? (-3)
... and continue in the morning, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (80)
Do you hold Wikipedia break nights, that is, nights when you intentionally try and tear yourself away from Wikipedia to go to bed early, for the sake of your health/career/relations with your significant other/etc? (15)
Do you still find yourself on past midnight, anyway? (20)
Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (75)
Do you make edits while
drunk or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes? (3)
Do you find it impossible to edit while sober? (-10)
... because the "substance" you get while on wikipedia makes you feel drunk? (1)
Are you drunk right now? (30)
Do you want to protest that last question because you are under the legal drinking age in your country? (15)
... or are you underage and drunk right now anyway? (-35; no points for lawbreakers)
Have you not answered an e-mail or instant message on time because you were browsing Wikipedia? (5)
Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other/parents/boss? (5)
Do you edit Wikipedia while engaging in sexual intercourse? (500; get therapy)
Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (6)
More than three? (10)
Are you breaking a rule now? (12)
Have you ever used Wikipedia for a research project and found yourself sidetracked to other articles that interest you? (5)
How long does it take you to notice that the pages you originally visited for your research are not the pages you are currently reading? (1 point for every minute it took you to realise this)
Or did you never realize it, and kept going until you fell asleep? (10 and a bad grade in school/work/home)
Or did you not notice it until turning off the computer? (7)
Have you taken a Wikibreak and you were "successful"? (-20)
... or did you come back immediately during your Wikibreak? (20)
... or do you not know what a Wikibreak is? (10, trust me, you don't want to...)
... if you didn't know, did you think it's when you "break" wikipedia? (-1)
... did you try to do so? (-30)
Have you ever put off using the bathroom for more than 5 minutes because you were using Wikipedia? (1)
More than 15 minutes? (5)
More than an hour? (20)
More than 3 hours? (100)
Do you need to go to the bathroom now? (5)
Would you rather go to the bathroom now rather than edit/finish the test? (-5)
Or are you so addicted to this site that you forgot to go to the bathroom?! (90 and a doctor to clean your pants)
Or did you continue editing and realized that you didn't have to go to the bathroom? (35)
Or did you just move your computer into the bathroom? (45)
Have you ever attempted to leave Wikipedia for good? (-300)
...but failed miserably because you were so addicted to this site? (500)
(for people who attend school and college) Are you so addicted to this site that you forgot to (or don't want to) do your homework or skip school? (250 + 10 * the number of days skipped)
(for people who have a job) Are you so addicted to this site you forgot to (or don't want to) go to work? (350 and 10 * the number of days missed)
Do you want to protest the last question because you attend school, but you get fewer points than those who have jobs? (10)
Have you ever paid way too much money for airport wireless connection while waiting for a flight, just so that you could visit Wikipedia and make sure it had not fallen apart? (50 + amount paid for wireless)
...More than once? (100)
...More than 10 times? (200)
Do you want to contest the following questions because you do not fly that frequently? (50)
Have you ever pulled your car up outside of a
Starbucks or some other restaurant with wireless so that you could "borrow" their internet for a quick peek at Wikipedia? (100)
Do you want to contest this because you don't have a laptop or a car? (1)
Because you are under the legal age in your country to own a car? (2)
But you own one anyway? (-50, no points for lawbreakers!)
Or do you not have a laptop or car because you live editing Wikipedia on your desktop, and therefore don't need either? (50)
What you do on Wikipedia
Editing
Did you edit a page before creating an account? (2)
Have you, in your impatience for others to edit an article, brought an article all the way from a substub or stub to featured article status? (50 and a
barnstar)
Have you
requested a new software feature, or reported a
bug, in the last few weeks? (2)
Have you ever uploaded a picture or photograph to Wikipedia? (5)
To commons? (5)
More than 1? (10)
More than 10? (25)
More than 50? (75)
More than 100? (100)
Did you include the appropriate usage templates? (10)
Did you upload copyrighted images and use false template to keep the picture from being deleted? (-150 Naughty, naughty)
Did you upload an image and claim appropriate fair use and appropriately explained it? (30)
Do you protest this question because you are philosophically opposed to the presence of fair use images? (10)
Have you put a fair use image in userspace? (-50)
Have you uploaded a picture you created, e.g. designed in an image editing program/vector drawing tool, not taken with a camera? (5)
Have you ever travelled more than two miles (three kilometres) out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (2)
... more than 15 km (10 miles)? (4)
... more than 40 km (25 miles)? (10)
... more than 160 km (100 miles)? (50)
... more than 400 km (250 miles)? (75)
... more than 1600 km (1000 miles)? (150)
Have you ever paid for (purchased) an item (archived article, song, book, etc.) solely to have access to it in order to improve the content of an article you were editing? (3)
... with a value of more than USD 5? (6)
... with a value of more than USD 10? (12)
... with a value of more than USD 20? (24)
... with a value of more than USD 50? (50)
... do you not use USD, and used an online currency converter to calculate the above? (10)
Did you plagiarize the content you had purchased, rather than following Wikipedia standards for using sources? (-400)
Do you justify the plagiarism because at least the content's creator made some money off your purchase? (-1000)
Have you ever successfully nominated a picture for Featured Picture status? (10)
2-5 pictures? (15)
6-10 pictures? (30)
11-50 pictures? (50)
Did you take that/those picture(s) yourself? (20)
Or did you take it/them from this/another website? (5)
Or did you take the picture(s), put it on (an)other website(s), and put that on Wikipedia? (22.5)
Have you ever successfully nominated an article for Featured Article status? (15)
2-5 articles? (25)
6-10 articles? (50)
11-50 articles? (100)
Did you significantly add to that/those article(s)? (25)
Did you greatly add to that/those article(s)? (30)
Did you create that/those article(s)? (50)
Or did you just create a stub and someone else expanded it? (-25)
Do you object to this set of questions because someone else is getting points for nominating a Featured Article you wrote? (20)
2-5 articles you wrote? (40)
6-10 articles you wrote? (80)
Do you hate to do "serious" research on Wikipedia because it's more fun to edit it? (10)
Have you reviewed over 20 articles on Peer review? (200)
Do you review Peer review requests every day? (250)
Have you noticed that Peer review is in serious trouble due to lack of reviewers, and that is why the previous questions are worth so many points? (10)
Translations and interwiki
Have you ever translated an article into another language? (50)
More than 1? (100)
More than 50? (500)
Have you ever translated a template, or something other than an article, into a foreign language? (25)
More than 1? (75)
More than 50? (500)
Do you know how to add a foreign language interwiki link to a page? (10)
Have you ever followed a foreign language interwiki link to figure out what that word was in another language? (15)
Have you ever added a foreign language interwiki to an article? (25)
More than once? (50 + 15 for every other article you've added one into.)
Does your userpage have foreign language interwikis? (33)
More than 1? (75)
More than 5? (150)
Were any of these accounts in languages you did not speak? (5)
Did you try to get a translation that said more or less "Please leave message on my [[:en:User talk:username|english talk page]]? (25)
Have you found out that {{babel}} works in almost any language? (25)
Have you ever edited the wikipediaholic test in a language other than your native language? (50)
More than 1? (150 + a job as a translator)
More than 10? (500)
Or did you use babelfish or another translator? (10)
Did people say the translation was utterly wrong? (-20)
Special pages
Do you click on "
Random article" at least once a day (or just because you're bored)? (3.5)
When you click "
Random article", do you, more often than not, find an article you have edited? (50)
Have you ever gotten the same random article twice in a row? (85)
... three times in a row? (150, and add 30 more for each random page you have gotten in a row)
Do you hit
Alt-X (or its equivalent on your keyboard) more than any other shortcut key? (3)
... do you do this often just because you get bored? (3 more, and the Boredom Award)
Or do you press
Alt-S more often because of your many edits? (10)
Do you protest the above question because you press
Alt-P more often because you make sure that your edits are good? (12)
Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (5)
Did you start editing before turning 17? (5)
... 15? (25)
... 13? (40)
... 11? (100)
Do the above questions upset you because they seem
ageist? (20)
Have you learned a new language or improved in one you already knew for the primary purpose of being able to read the Wikipedia in that language? (100)
... or for some other reason, such as picking it up where you left it so many years ago? (10)
Do you forget to think twice before you say something to real people, but re-check a hundred times what you have typed in before posting your comment in a talk page? (5)
Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7)
Are you an ambassador for Wikipedia? (2)
Are you an ambassador for more than one Wikipedia? (2 points more)
Do you ever write stuff like "Blah?BLAHBLAHBLAH!BLAHBLAHblalalALALAALAL!!DkdlcdsaddadsdsddDFdkfFdsf I AM VANDELIZING! AND NOBODY KNOWS I AM VANDELIZING AND I am Example Username: Wikicookie!! VANDELIZING!! And Still don't know who wrote it."?(Take this test 5 billion times)
Have you been banned? (-1000)
Because you've requested it? (1000)
Because you couldn't sustain your wikibreak? (50)
Is your main goal in life to vandalize Wikipedia? (-1000000000)
Have you ever made nonsensical edits to pages that no one will ever see anyway just because you can? (1)
Have you ever reverted those changes out of guilt? (3)
... and then reverted them back (and maybe back again) to increase your edit count? (6)
Did you just regret making those changes because you know they'll show up on Recent Changes? (1)
... or did you regret them because you'll violate 3RR? (1)
... or did you not care because 3RR states that self-reversions are allowed? (2)
... or do it by hand because you don't use Windows? (30)
... or do you vandalize with them instead? (-50 and removal from the permissions list)
Have you ever created a custom userspace template used to warn vandals? (50)
Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25)
When you see real-life vandalism, do you have the urge to revert it? (15)
Did you actually revert it? (100 + a real anti-vandalism barnstar)
Are you totally unfazed by the words "poop", "penis", and "anus" because of the massive amounts of it you have seen while on vandalism patrol? (150)
Have you ever added these words to an article? (-200)
Do you want to contest this because there are legitimate uses for those words? (eg. an article on
Human feces) (240)
Have you ever had a disgruntled vandal create an Personal attack article named after you or your username that was speedily deleted as a personal attack? (10)
Do you think these questions are unfair because you already knew that language? (20)
Do you now feel heavily prejudiced against because you prefer to use the .NET languages or C++? (30)
Do you at least want to run a bot? (5)
Do you even know what a bot is? (1)
Do you not know what a bot is? (-2)
Have you ever suggested a job for a bot? (5)
Was it adopted? (20, and our congratulations!)
...or was it unmercilessly shot down before it ever got started? (-5 and our sympathies)
...or did someone else beat you to the punch? (10 for at least trying)
Do you feel the need to hurt the other guy for suggesting your idea first? (-5 and a free tour of
anger management)
Do you find this whole section unfair since it judges you for programming skills? (-5)
...Is this because you can not gain points here? (-5)
...Or have you resolved to figure it out on your own so you can one day operate a bot? (50 for your determination)
How Wikipedia has affected you
Physical behavior
Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (12)
Are you sleeping in after 8:00 in the morning because you edited Wikipedia overnight? (5)
after 9:00? (10)
after 10:00? (20)
... Did you check all of the above questions because it is 8:00, 9:00 or 10:00 somewhere in the world? (3 points for being smart)
When you wake up in the night and can't get back to sleep due to some nagging worry, do you get up and start working on Wikipedia so that you will get tired and have something relaxing to fill your mind when you go back to bed? (8)
Does that work? (6)
Or were you so engaged on Wikipedia you forgot to go back to bed? (10)
Do you lose sleep because you think you may have misspelled a word like mispelled on some talk page? (6)
Did you wake up to check if you misspelled it? (6)
Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (3)
Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5)
Do you wake up in the night in a cold sweat wondering whether your latest submission was truly written from the
NPOV? (6)
Do you have nightmares about vandalism? (7.5)
Did you notice that this question is 2 sections above this? (5)
Have you woken up at night to realize you're at your computer editing Wikipedia? (80)
...more than once? (40 more for each occurence)
Have you been forced to switch your mousing hand because your shoulder/arm was in terrible pain from using Wikipedia all day? (30)
... and did you have to switch back because you screwed up the other arm too? (50)
Did you need arm/shoulder surgery shortly after that? (2% of the cost of the surgery in
United States dollars)
Are you morbidly obese because you spend so much time editing that you never exercise? (5)
... or do you burn all the calories you need to to stay healthy because of the energy you use typing? (15)
Do you wake up early in order to edit Wikipedia? (5)
Before 7:00 a.m. (where you live)? (8)
Before 6:30 a.m. (where you live)? (15)
Before 6:00 a.m. (where you live)? (25)
Before 5:30 a.m. (where you live)? (35)
Before 5:00 a.m. (where you live)? (50)
Before 4:30 a.m. (where you live)? (75)
Before 4:00 a.m. (where you live)? (100)
Did you try to wake up at one of those times in order to get the extra points? (10)
But failed miserably because you're not "a morning person"? (-6)
Or did you succeed because you knew it was for the good of Wikipedia? (15)
Or do you protest to the above question because waking up early decreases the quality of your edits and is thus not for the good of Wikipedia? (15)
Or are edits made in the early morning better? (10)
Do you think the previous question has a POV score? (10)
When you are reading a book, is the first thing you do to flip to the
index and search for "Wikipedia"? (10)
Do you actually find it? (15)
If you don't find it, do you tremble with frustration and disappointment? (20)
Or do you attempt to make an edit to the book to have it? (50)
Do you succeed? (200)
If you do, do you immediately flip to the corresponding pages and spend a considerable amount of time reading about Wikipedia? (25)
Do you protest to the above two questions because you didn't find it and received fewer points than those who did? (5)
Do you protest to the above question now as further edits have made this false? (0, that's life)
Or do you protest to this whole question, because you are so busy on Wikipedia that you have no time for reading about it? (50)
Do you not care about your dental health because you are too into Wikipedia? (50)
Do you not visit the dentist because you are too busy editing Wikipedia? (100, go have a
Wikibreak now!)
Do you not use Listerine, even if the dentist advised you to do so? (1)
...Or do you ONLY brush your teeth once a day? (10)
...or do you never brush your teeth at all? (100, and go see a dentist now!)
Do you protest the above questions because you cannot afford to buy Listerine? (-5, that is sad)
Do you protest the above questions because you cannot afford to buy a toothbrush? (-20, that is very sad)
Is it because you donated your whole fortune to Wikipedia? (100, 0.01% does not count as the whole fortune)
Or do you protest the whole question about dental health because you visit your dentist regularly, brush regularly, and rinse your mouth after every meals? (50, and a dental award)
Do you experience
withdrawal,
clinical depression, uncontrollable weeping, or some other affliction when you are unable to use Wikipedia for the time of one week? (8)
…the time of 5 days? (16)
…3 days? (24)
2 days? (40)
1 day? (64)
1 hour? (128)
Are you annoyed by the seemingly random nature of the previous six questions' scores? (5)
Do you wish to protest the above question because you realize that they are not random, but are combinations of non-one
powers of two? (12)
Have you evolved into a cyborg from overuse of Wikipedia? (100)
Did answer yes to the above because you think "
cyborg" is a broad enough term to encompass just about anyone who uses Wikipedia to supplement their own knowledge? (10)
Have you used this shape to improve Wikipedia at an immense level? (50)
Or do you just vandalize unstoppably? (-100000000 and a strong electromagnetic pulse)
Social life
Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
Did that ruin your social life? (15)
Did that help your social life? (25)
Do you protest that question because you do not have a social life? (25)
Is Wikipedia to blame? (50)
Do you have a
Wikipedia T-shirt (or another Wikipedia product)? (10)
More than one? (20)
Do you at least want one? (50)
Did you click the link and spend the last 5 minutes reading all the different shirts? (120)
Is something you have thought was important, such as social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (10)
Do you judge people you know in "real life" partly on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (10)
... fully on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (30)
Do you think quality of contributions to Wikipedia is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (15 and a crash course in dating)
Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are "productive" or "useful" - unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching
football? (10)
Did you feel the need to disambiguate the link to football in the last question? (10)
... or did you not because you knew someone from across the pond would just change it? (5)
Did you actually change it, just to see if someone would put it back? (15)
Did you put it back so that these questions wouldn't be inappropriate? (10)
Do you like football or any sport more than Wikipedia? (-50)
More than one sport? (-100, you think you're a wikipediaholic?)
Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (2)
Have you ever met another Wikipedian in "real life"? (3)
Do you live with another Wikipedian? (40)
Are you "in a relationship" (boyfriend/girlfriend) with another Wikipedian? (20)
Did you "recruit" them to Wikipedia by telling them how amazing it is? (70)
Have they asked if Wikipedia is more important to you than they are? (30)
... and did they break up with you because you said yes when they asked you if you think Wikipedia is more important than they are? (50)
Did you break up with them because they answered no when you asked them if Wikipedia was more important than you are? (150, and call your psychiatrist NOW!)
Do you protest that question because you're too young? (100)
Are you engaged with another Wikipedian? (25)
Have you married another Wikipedian? (45)
Do you want to protest to the previous question because you're too young to do so/unable to do so for whatever reason? (15)
Do you have Wikipedian children? (65)
Do you want to protest to the previous question because you're too young to do so/unable to do so for whatever reason? (20)
Have you chosen to edit Wikipedia instead of being "intimate" with your partner? (15)
Do you want to protest to the previous question because you're too young to do so/unable to do so for whatever reason? (10)
Are you dating a non-Wikipedian? (-6)
Do you have
NPOV issues with the negative score attributed to the previous question? (6)
Have you told your significant other/parent something from Wikipedia while on the phone? (10)
Was he or she impressed? (8)
... or bored? (-5)
Are you someone who is considered a social outcast? (5)
Did you realize that it did not actually say US dollars? (10)
Do you have more Wikipedia articles open than pictures of your spouse/family? (3 points for each one)
Do you use terms like "dab", "lk", "sp", "revert", "blanking", "content", "NPOV", "vanity page", "minor edit", "vandal", "troll", "developer", "double brackets", "diff", "hist", "todo", "watchlist", "wikimarkup", or other terms in their Wikipedia sense in unrelated contexts? (5)
Did you take an expensive language course just to edit Wikipedia in more languages? (125)
Did this cost more than $100? (40)
More than $250? (90)
More than $500? (200)
Would you risk your family members' lives just to edit an article? (200)
Have you ever referred to offline alter egos as "sock puppets"? (2)
Do you not have a social life because you're too tired from editing on Wikipedia? (40)
Did you notice that a similar question is just a few questions above this one? (1)
Do you think that the previous questions are POV? (10)
Do you have the Wikipedia gadget on your
Google desktop? (10)
Have you ever wanted to edit a chat or IRC message you just sent? (5)
Was that in a Wikipedia-related channel? (3)
Wikipedia itself? (10)
Have you ever signed a real e-mail or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (1)
More than 10 times? (10)
More than 50 times? (50)
More than 100 times? (100)
On every e-mail? (200)
Have you ever put double brackets around a word outside of Wikipedia? (3)
...more than ten times? (15)
...more than fifty times? (60)
...on every word you type?!? (200)
Or do you want to protest the last question because it promotes
overlinking? (10)
Have you joined a Wikipedia community on a non-Wikipedia website? (3)
Do you refuse to use social networking sites like
Facebook or
MySpace because your Wikipedia user page is "better than that crap"? (8)
Do you protest to the last question because you do use Facebook or MySpace but insist your Wikipedia user page is still better? (10)
Do you link to your Wikipedia user page from your Facebook or MySpace profile? (15)
Do you think that the two previous questions are non-wikipediholic? (25)
Have you begun to say "asterisk apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe Support/Oppose/Comment apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe tilde tilde tilde tilde", like in
WP:FAC or
WP:FPC, when you agree/disagree/want to say something in real life? (20)
Are you opposed to Britannica and all other encyclopedias because Wikipedia is better? (5)
Are you in support of Britannica, but you think Wikipedia is better? (40)
Are you opposed to Google because Wikipedia is better? (15)
Are you in support of Google, but you think Wikipedia is better? (75)
Have you ever stopped using touch-typing tutor CDs/having touch-typing courses because you've learnt how to touch-type because of Wikipedia? (5)
Did you actually throw away the CD? (6)
The rest of the world
Did you scoff at this header because Wikipedia is the world? (20)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a country that you don't live in? (10)
... in two or more? (20)
... in five or more? (50)
... in ten or more? (110)
Are you currently in a Wikipedia cult/clan? (15)
... Are you leader of that clan? (30)
... that wars with other encyclopedia clans? (45)
... with another Wikipedia clan? (70)
Do you protest the above question, because you don't war against other Wikipedians? (80)
Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (2)
Did you throw away that encyclopedia? (6)
Or did you keep that encyclopedia to cite as a source in Wikipedia articles? (10)
... and did so correctly? (5)
... or went ahead and added the material without providing a source? (-10)
Have you ever submitted an assignment for work or school that cited Wikipedia? (6)
Did it cite an article that you had edited? (10)
... created? (25)
And did the teacher give you a bad grade, because he/she is biased against Wikipedia? (10)
Do you think this unfair? (15)
Do you think
Uncyclopedia[1] is better than Wikipedia? (-200)
Do you actually believe the (of course fake) content on Uncyclopedia? (-10)
Or is Wikipedia better? (25)
Do you hate Uncyclopedia so much you could smash your computer? (50)
But didn't as doing so would disable your editing abilities? (50)
Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence)
Have you written your Wikipedia username as your name on homework assignments? (10)
... because your username is your real name? (-9)
Do you take out library books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little about? (8)
Have you ever bought a CD, movie, video game, book or other media product so you can write the article, scan the cover and upload it to Wikipedia? (5)
Did you pay full price for it? (5)
... or even more? (10)
... or did you steal it? (-40, no points for lawbreakers)
Have you ever considered running a wiki version of your school's site? (3)
Have you ever done so? (5)
When you applied for community service, did you volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (15)
Have you listed your work on Wikipedia on your curriculum vitae or resumé? (10)
Or will you do it when you apply for a job or university in the future? (5)
Do you believe that nearly all of your success in your workplace or school comes from information gained on Wikipedia? (4)
When you see vandalism in real life, do you think "These must be the type of people that vandalize Wikipedia"? (2)
Have you ever recommended Wikipedia to any of your real family or friends? (4)
Did they join Wikipedia and contribute? (8)
Have they themselves become Wikipediholics? (12)
During
driver's education, did you ask everyone you crashed into to give you a break instead of
biting you? (4)
Did thinking about Wikipedia cause you to crash in the first place? (-3)
Or are you too young to drive, so you stay at home editing Wikipedia instead? (10)
If you don't, did you just look for his article? (5)
Has he ever talked to you on your user talk page? (6)
... or are you Jimbo Wales? (1000000)
Did you lie to the above question to win the test? (-1000025)
Or are you Jimbo Wales, but not the Jimbo Wales? (2)
because you changed your name to that of your idol? (1000)
... and do you talk to yourself on your user talk page anyway? (5)
Are you upset that Jimbo has not claimed his undoubtedly permanent top spot on the top 20 highest scoring users? (5)
Or do you think that eventually someone will get over 100000 points? (5)
Do you know where the Wikimedia Foundation is based? (10)
Do you know when Wikipedia was founded? (01.152001)
Did you correct the score above because the date was incorrect? (20)
Did you discover Wikipedia from Larry Sanger's message? (40)
Do you know what this refers to? (50)
Have you ever thought about the
social impact of Wikipedia? (10)
Have you ever been asked about it in an interview (e.g. for a newspaper)? (25)
Do you think Wikipedia will be better than every other encyclopedia soon? (8)
... or you think it is already better than every other encyclopedia? (18)
... because you can change the spelling of the last word in the last question to "encyclopædia"? (2)
Do you consider Wikipedia to be the closest thing to a precursor for "the computer" in Star Trek? (5)
Do you ever use Wikipedia to resolve a dispute? (41)
Have you ever cheered out loud when you look at the updates on the Wikipedia
Awareness Statistics? (5)
Have you ever written a book about Wikipedia? (150)
... and written an article about that book? (-5 for not following
WP:COI)
... then had someone correct a slip you made in the article? (5)
Did you call the book Main Page? (-50 for making disambiguation a mess)
Are you really mad about the fact that you wrote an entire book about Wikipedia yet got only 150 points? (5)
Do you know how many users Wikipedia has? (10)
... or do you protest to the above question because the number of users change every minute? (5)
... but then you realize you don't need to know the exact number of users (estimation) to answer yes to the above question? (5)
Do you know approximately how often a new user account is created? (5)
Have you ever made up a name for wikipedia users? (10)
Meta-questions
Have you ever taken this quiz more than once simply to correspond with the most recent version? (3)
Have you cheated on this test? (-40)
... In almost every section? (-100)
... to get into the Top 20 below? (10)
... even though you know there is no visibly officialtop 20 below list? (7)
Did you immediately think of ways to improve this test, or adjust the scores so that they neatly add up to 100? (3.141592653589793)
... such as changing the score of the previous question to π? (1.61813398875)
... or by removing the previous two questions? (2.718281828459)
Do you remember when the scores actually added up to 100 and laugh now that there are more questions than that on the test? (57)
Do you protest to the above question because you didn't know about Wikipedia when the score was 100? (3)
Do you find it funny that all of these scores are mathematically-important numbers? (6.67E-9)
Did you know the last question was scientific notation? (100)
Did you actually solve it? (100)
Have you edited this test? (14)
... and then taken it again? (4)
... and you got a higher score? (16)
... was that only because you edited the test to get a higher score? (-50, no cheating)
... so you could remain in denial about your affliction? (8)
... or so you could claim bragging rights? (12)
Do you think your score is too high and maybe you'll do something about it after "a few more edits"? (7)
... or are you so proud of it that you retake the test every month or more often to see how much more addicted you've become? (10)
Have you ever clicked back in order to score a question because you forgot it? (1)
Did you notice that there is a different number of questions in the automated version? (2)
Do you protest to the above question because the two tests appear to be completely identical to you? (1)
Were you annoyed to find out you didn't have to be adding up your score manually? (2)
Were you then relieved to find that the automated version wasn't working? (2)
... then check back again and find that it had been fixed? (1)
Did you read through all of these questions without keeping score and are relieved that there was an automated page? (1)
Did you do this test with a calculator or paper because you didn't know there was an automated version? (10)
... or did know but added your score manually anyway? (40)
... without a calculator? (50)
... even though there was one right in front of you? (20)
Will you put a calculator in front of you the next time you take this test, so you can get those 20 points? (10)
... solely in your head? (250)
... or do you have parental controls on your browser that don't allow you to take the automated version? (50)
... or have you used
PeaceFire to get by your parental controls so you can take the automated version? (15)
... or did you see the automated version and decide to do the manual instead? (10)
Did you take both tests, compare the scores, and see which one gives you more points? (4)
If you have a web page, do you proudly display your score from this test on it? (5)
Did you notice that your user page could technically be your web page, and are displaying the score there to get 5 extra points? (5)
Have you ever not updated your user page Wikipediholic test score because it had gone down? (50)
Did you purposefully retake the test, letting your score fall, so that you could add 50 points to it by answering yes to the last question? (-51 — that is just sad)
Did you realize you've just read — with academic interest! — a list of hundreds of questions and added up your score? (2)
... and ignore the fact that the open nature of this quiz prevents your score from ever being objective? (2)
... or did you create an automated version of this test so you wouldn't have to add up your score? (100)
... because you didn't know there already was one? (100)
... or did know but made one anyway? (100)
... or did you just create one before one existed? (125)
Did you ask the creator to fix it when it failed? (20)
Upon seeing the top 20 scores at the bottom there, did you go back into the test to see if you could squeeze more points from it? (15)
... did you realize that since this test is dynamic and ever-changing, it really doesn't matter? (1)
... and did you not care? (3)
... or realize that you can add a question worth a large number of points and then remove it to claim the top score? (3)
Were you extremely addicted early on (score above 400 in your first three months)? (30)
Did you score above 600 in your first three months? (45)
Did you score above 800 in your first three months? (75)
Did you score above 1000 in your first three months? (100)
Did you score above 1200 in your first three months? (125)
Did you score above 1500 in your first three months? (150)
Did you score above 2000 in your first three months? (200)
Did you score above 3000 in your first three months? (250, are you okay?)
Did you score above 5000 in your first three months? (400, and a ticket for one free life)
Did you score above 10,000 in your first three months?!?! (500, and a possible investigation)
Did you score above 15,000 in your first three months? (750, you really need help)
Did you score above 20,000 in your first three months? (1000, go see a doctor NOW!)
Do you protest to these questions because when you were in your first three months, the scores weren't that high? (100)
Did you lie in the above questions just to increase your score? (-2500, no cheating)
Did you delay taking this test because you were too busy editing other Wikipedia article(s)? (5)
Have you wanted to move this page to conform to Wikipedia's
naming conventions? (5)
... have you done so? (15)
... did you just check to see if there was a redirect? (2)
Have you added together all of the point values on this test just to see how many points are possible? (5)
Do you know the number off the top of your head? (40)
Are you going to do this after you finish? (2)
Do you get upset because people cause the maximum score to change often? (2)
Do you have something you should be doing, and are procrastinating by reading all of these questions? (10)
Do you take this test on a yearly basis or more? (1)
On a monthly basis or more? (12)
On a weekly basis or more? (52)
On a daily basis OR MORE? (365)
Is this the first time you have taken this test? (1)
Are you planning to retake it? (5)
Have you taken this test more than once? (2)
More than 5 times? (10)
More than 10 times? (20)
More than 20 times? (40)
More than 40 times? (80, how do you keep count?)
More than 50 times? (100, Medic, quick, it's an emergency!)
More than 150 times? (300, Go see a doctor NOW!!!)
... because you have OCD or wikiholic syndrome or editcountits? (0.11111111, go see a doctor if your score is above 1992.52525252)
... and you are obsessed or compulsed or wikiholicified or editcountitsified or something else with Wikipedia? (10)
... did you even bother to read or pronounce the above question, or fix it because there are words that don't exist (see neologisms)? (15)
Or did you read them, because you are an obsessed, cumpulsed, wikipediholic, editcountitic, Wikipedian? (20)
Do you have over 10 edits to this page? (10)
Over 50? (50)
Over 100?! (100)
Over 200?!? (200)
Have you ever added the toolong template to the top of this page, for humor purposes only, as the test seems to grow weekly? (10)
Did you take this test manually from top to bottom after January 1st, 2007 (when its length was already impressive), despite the automated version being much quicker? (150, and a free appointment with a psychologist)
Have you ever edited the scores? (-10)
Because you wanted to get a higher score? (-25)
Because you are a math geek? (5)
Are you mad because you lose points for being a math geek? (100)
Did you notice you now come out ahead for being a math geek? (1)
Because you needed to get edits to improve your score in other sections? (-10)
Have your score changes lowered your score? (100)
Did you edit scores to get the last question right, therefore raising your grade? (-1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
Did you change that last score? (-1000)
Because you were mad? (-1000)
Because it was too long? (1001)
Did you notice that the extremely long score a few questions ago is one followed by one hundred zeroes? (100)
Did you count them? (1000)
Did you know that there is a name for that number? (100)
Did you know it off the top of your head? (100)
Did you go to the wikipedia article about it? (100)
Were you mad because there isn't a link to it? (10)
Did you edit it? (1000)
Have you ever counted the number of points on the quiz, if you answered everything "yes"? (10)
More than once? (10)
More than five times? (20)
More than ten times? (50)
More than twenty times? (75)
More than fifty times? (100)
More than seventy-five times? (200)
More than one hundred times? (500)
Did you do it using the automated version? (-100)
Have you ever counted the highest number of points one could get on the quiz? (10)
More than once? (10)
More than five times? (20)
More than ten times? (50)
More than twenty times? (75)
More than fifty times? (100)
More than seventy-five times? (200)
More than one hundred times? (500)
Did you do it using the automated version? (-100)
Have you ever counted the lowest number of points one could get on the quiz? (10)
Only because STBotD has added several thousand interwiki links, worth 15 points each, and since I feel so close to my bots, I pretend that they are a part of me.
Woo...hoo! I beat Darkness Lord, after AndonicO, and took the crown. After I got 14th, I got 25000, and my edit count was only 2000, now after a few days, I bumped up to... 26709, then up to 28265, proclaiming FIRST... again, then dropping down to 2nd! Can't believe it! I am such a Wikipediholic... I simply log on to Wikipedia everyday for more than 5 hours!!! I am on Wikipedia after school from 5pm to 10pm (local time)! (That had gotten me 50 points or so! (Despite the fact I am kid under 12, I am considered the genius at my school. I am actually just a regular kid, just like everyone else.)
WOOT! Top 20! Anyone know of a good "shrink"? Anyone think using the name "shrink" to talk about a psychiatrist isn't
NPOV? Add 100 more free points! Hersfold(
talk|
work) 21:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, there are two
ts in that name... Oh, and I've removed my previous scores (6-odd thousand and 4-odd thousand) to be fair. Now: here are the words of your new former 16th place WikiGod: Visit
this now! Also,
Chris, your name is very NPOV: it could be either Christopher or Christine! Oh, and I am David P. A. Hunter, Esq., but I changed my display name...
I've never put my score up here before. Heh. It'll probably get reverted, but who cares? I'm the queen of the castle! I can now say that I am insane! Irrevocably. Hello? Psychiatrist? Anyone here? No? Then YESSSSSSS! I can stay a Wikiholic! But oh no! They're coming to get me. The men in black suits. They're grabbing me, taking me away! Help me! I... need...you...Wikipe- ahhhhh!
I have decided to keep the original version of the
Wikipediholic Test because only TRUE Wikipediholics can finish taking the test. I believe it should be kept, so here it is. Sadly, it has to be done manually...
This page contains material that is kept because it is considered
humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.
If you're not sure if you are a
wikipediholic, you should take this test.
The point value of answering 'yes' to each question is listed in parentheses ( ) at the end of the question. The higher the result, the more likely it is that you are a Wikipediholic.
New questions and modifications are of course welcome—good questions are those that measure current
addiction (e.g., "have you edited a page in the last week", not "have you ever edited a page"), on the hypothesis that Wikipediholicism can be cured, or at least controlled to some degree. Formats should be added as #ENTRY (point value[, additional notes]) in order to be compatible with the automated version.
Give yourself at least 2 hours and 45 minutes because there are more than 1,302 questions!
If you check off all the boxes, you will receive 6791.45214451919 at last count.
The highest score possible from checking boxes is 114356.161020580796 at last count, which scored by
ST47 and his bot.
Current revision: -
The test
Completing the Wikipediholic Test
Have you managed to fully complete this test by answering all the set questions? (10)
Because you're a Wikipediholic? (20)
Because you cheated? (-10, no cheating!)
Have you managed to complete the manual version in 2007 *or later*? (250)
...more than 5 times? (50)
...more than 25 times? (200)
...more than 150 times?!? (1000)
Do you protest the above question because it would take up more time than is necessary to complete the
Infinite monkey theorem? (10)
Had you read that article before encountering it here? (18)
Edited it? (30)
Did you take the test once then come back up here, realising you couldn't answer this until you'd finished, adding an extra 20 points on to your score? (22)
Do you think completing the test is impossible? (-1)
How often do you use Wikipedia?
Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a week? (1)
Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a day? (3)
Do you typically use Wikipedia for more than an hour a day? (5)
... more than two hours? (10)
... more than four hours? (15)
... more than six hours? (25)
... more than nine hours? (40)
... more than twelve hours? (50)
... more than eighteen hours? (100)
... more than twenty-four hours? (-500 for lying)
Do you protest the above question because your planet has more than 24 hours in a day? (500, and please contact
SETI)
... exactly 24 hours, or how long a day is? (200)
Do you edit without breaks to eat? (50)
... or drink? (75)
... or to sleep? (100)
... or to go to the toilet? (100)
... because you edit Wikipedia on the toilet? (50)
... because you wear a
youth or
adultdiaper so you can spend more time using Wikipedia? (120)
... because you don't edit for that long at a time? (-2)
Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (10)
... more than 70%? (20)
... more than 80%? (30)
... more than 90%? (40)
... more than 95%? (60)
... more than 99.9%? (100)
... 100%? (150)
... just slightly less than 100% solely to look up information to add to Wikipedia? (100)
... are you angry that these questions don't work for you, since you are constantly on other websites researching and writing Wikipedia articles leaving little time actually on the Wikipedia web site? (50^2)
... less than 10%? (-10... and you call yourself a Wikipediholic)
... less than 0.1%? (-100; you may leave now)
... 0%, except for taking this test? (-500; What are you doing here?)
Have you been using Wikipedia for so long you forgot today is your day off? (5)
Do you want to protest the above question because today is not your day off? (3)
But you're on Wikipedia anyway? (9)
... because you never get a day off from wikipedia? (50)
Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's
bandwidth? (7)
Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (5)
Do you already spend more than 90% of your daily time here? (75)
Have you been using (editing) Wikipedia for a day to a week? (2)
A week to a month? (5)
A month to two? (12)
Two months to three? (25)
Three months to six? (60)
Six months to nine? (75)
Nine months to a year? (90)
A year to two? (120)
Two years to three? (150)
Three years to four? (225)
Four years to five? (300)
More than five years? (400)
Only to vandalize? (-900, and a ban)
More than seven years? (-1000, for lying)
Do you only use Wikipedia while browsing other sites at the same time? (-3)
Between 90 and 100% of the time? (-3)
Between 60 and 90% of the time? (-2)
Less than 60% of the time? (-1)
Less than 20% of the time? (1)
Never? (6)
Do you want to protest the above question because you only browse the other sites for research? (2)
Is that research for Wikipedia articles? (15)
Do you have Wikipedia bookmarked? (3)
Is Wikipedia set as your home page? (10)
Have you had Wikipedia open in more than one window/tab at a time? (1)
More than five? (5)
More than ten? (10)
More than twenty? (20)
More than thirty? (30)
More than forty? (40)
More than fifty? (50)
Enough to crash your browser? (50)
Enough to crash your computer? (50)
Do you protest the above question because it gives points to people using an
inferior operating system? (25)
Did you have to restrain yourself from redirecting the above link to your least favorite operating system? (10)
Have you used Wikipedia on more than one browser at a time? (5)
To see how a page you edited resolved? (15)
On a text-only browser, such as Lynx? (25)
Where you use Wikipedia
Have you used Wikipedia from more than one computer in the past week? (5)
... more than five? (50)
... more than ten? (100)
... more than twenty? (200)
... did you edit Wikipedia on those computers? (20)
Have you used Wikipedia from more than one operating system in the past week? (5)
Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (10)
Did your laptop's fan go on by itself while you were at Wikipedia? (20)
Did your laptop run out of electricity because you were using wikipedia for so long? (25)
Do you browse Wikipedia on a cell phone, PDA,
PlayStation Portable (or any other mobile gadget) browser? (15)
Do you edit Wikipedia on that browser? (25)
Do you do anything other than Wikipedia on that browser? (-5)
If you use dial-up, is your phone bill larger than before you discovered Wikipedia? (5)
Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia while paying long distance charges to connect to the Internet? (10)
Do you protest the last question because you don't have dial-up? (1)
Do you hook up to Wikipedia over a wireless Internet connection? (2)
Do you edit Wikipedia articles while over such a connection? (9)
Is that connection in a restaurant? (7)
Are you on a date in this restaurant? (30)
Or do you protest to the last question because you are too young to do so? (10)
Did you pick that restaurant because of the wireless connection? (5)
Do you ever go to other restaurants? (-3)
Do you protest that question because you only go to other restaurants with a wireless internet connection? (9)
Do you edit Wikipedia while waiting for your meal? (5)
... at the restaurant? (35)
... during your meal? (25)
... while eating? (40)
... with one hand on the keyboard, and one on your food? (50)
... without washing your hands? (10)
... with one foot on the food and two hands on the keyboard? (100)
... without washing your foot/feet? (40)
... with your mouth in the food and two hands on the keyboard? (120)
Are you on
Lufthansa flight 411D, which has wireless access to the Internet during flight? (25)
Are you eating your meal on said flight while taking this test or writing an article? (60)
Did you choose this flight over another because of the access to Wikipedia? (140 plus a point for every $10 more you paid for this flight than the one you would have taken)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (27, and an electrical shock risk)
Do you work on Wikipedia in almost zero light because of an electrical power failure? (27)
Did you immediately just try to think of ways to get on Wikipedia with no electricity after you read the last question? (18)
Does it not matter because your home is
off-the-grid? (52)
... for the sole purpose of editing Wikipedia? (100)
While at a party or visiting a significant other, have you found yourself wanting to check your watchlist? (10)
Did you ask somebody if you could use their computer to check Wikipedia? (50)
Did you leave the party/significant other so you could check it? (100)
Do you actually use Wikipedia at public computers, even though some pages advise you not to? (5)
Or do you uncheck the "Remember Me" button when logging in? (5)
... do you always do so, even at home? (10)
When you use Wikipedia
Do you use the
shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3)
Have you gotten ideas about articles from your dreams? (40)
Have you edited until 1 o'clock in the morning? (5)
... until 4:00 AM? (15)
... until 7:00 AM? (30)
... until 10:00 AM? (60)
Did you give yourself 140-146 points since it is always 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, or 8:00 somewhere? (3 bonus points for cleverness :))
Do you edit Wikipedia at night (i.e. after midnight) consuming drinks to keep you up? (4)
...or do you stay up late to edit without the help of drinks? (4)
Do you want to protest the last questions because you are under the legal drinking age in your country? (3)
Or because it did not say it was an alcoholic drink? (0.4)
Or because you don't like to drink? (1)
Because the quality of your Wikipedia edits drops? (10, that's the "spirit"!)
Do you hold Wikipedia nights, that is, nights when you intentionally go to bed late, after spending a certain number of hours editing Wikipedia? (5)
Do you get people to join you in such an event? (16)
Do you make it a party? (20)
Did practically nobody come because they don't like wikipedia? (-3)
... and continue in the morning, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (80)
Do you hold Wikipedia break nights, that is, nights when you intentionally try and tear yourself away from Wikipedia to go to bed early, for the sake of your health/career/relations with your significant other/etc? (15)
Do you still find yourself on past midnight, anyway? (20)
Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (75)
Do you make edits while
drunk or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes? (3)
Do you find it impossible to edit while sober? (-10)
... because the "substance" you get while on wikipedia makes you feel drunk? (1)
Are you drunk right now? (30)
Do you want to protest that last question because you are under the legal drinking age in your country? (15)
... or are you underage and drunk right now anyway? (-35; no points for lawbreakers)
Have you not answered an e-mail or instant message on time because you were browsing Wikipedia? (5)
Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other/parents/boss? (5)
Do you edit Wikipedia while engaging in sexual intercourse? (500; get therapy)
Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (6)
More than three? (10)
Are you breaking a rule now? (12)
Have you ever used Wikipedia for a research project and found yourself sidetracked to other articles that interest you? (5)
How long does it take you to notice that the pages you originally visited for your research are not the pages you are currently reading? (1 point for every minute it took you to realise this)
Or did you never realize it, and kept going until you fell asleep? (10 and a bad grade in school/work/home)
Or did you not notice it until turning off the computer? (7)
Have you taken a Wikibreak and you were "successful"? (-20)
... or did you come back immediately during your Wikibreak? (20)
... or do you not know what a Wikibreak is? (10, trust me, you don't want to...)
... if you didn't know, did you think it's when you "break" wikipedia? (-1)
... did you try to do so? (-30)
Have you ever put off using the bathroom for more than 5 minutes because you were using Wikipedia? (1)
More than 15 minutes? (5)
More than an hour? (20)
More than 3 hours? (100)
Do you need to go to the bathroom now? (5)
Would you rather go to the bathroom now rather than edit/finish the test? (-5)
Or are you so addicted to this site that you forgot to go to the bathroom?! (90 and a doctor to clean your pants)
Or did you continue editing and realized that you didn't have to go to the bathroom? (35)
Or did you just move your computer into the bathroom? (45)
Have you ever attempted to leave Wikipedia for good? (-300)
...but failed miserably because you were so addicted to this site? (500)
(for people who attend school and college) Are you so addicted to this site that you forgot to (or don't want to) do your homework or skip school? (250 + 10 * the number of days skipped)
(for people who have a job) Are you so addicted to this site you forgot to (or don't want to) go to work? (350 and 10 * the number of days missed)
Do you want to protest the last question because you attend school, but you get fewer points than those who have jobs? (10)
Have you ever paid way too much money for airport wireless connection while waiting for a flight, just so that you could visit Wikipedia and make sure it had not fallen apart? (50 + amount paid for wireless)
...More than once? (100)
...More than 10 times? (200)
Do you want to contest the following questions because you do not fly that frequently? (50)
Have you ever pulled your car up outside of a
Starbucks or some other restaurant with wireless so that you could "borrow" their internet for a quick peek at Wikipedia? (100)
Do you want to contest this because you don't have a laptop or a car? (1)
Because you are under the legal age in your country to own a car? (2)
But you own one anyway? (-50, no points for lawbreakers!)
Or do you not have a laptop or car because you live editing Wikipedia on your desktop, and therefore don't need either? (50)
What you do on Wikipedia
Editing
Did you edit a page before creating an account? (2)
Have you, in your impatience for others to edit an article, brought an article all the way from a substub or stub to featured article status? (50 and a
barnstar)
Have you
requested a new software feature, or reported a
bug, in the last few weeks? (2)
Have you ever uploaded a picture or photograph to Wikipedia? (5)
To commons? (5)
More than 1? (10)
More than 10? (25)
More than 50? (75)
More than 100? (100)
Did you include the appropriate usage templates? (10)
Did you upload copyrighted images and use false template to keep the picture from being deleted? (-150 Naughty, naughty)
Did you upload an image and claim appropriate fair use and appropriately explained it? (30)
Do you protest this question because you are philosophically opposed to the presence of fair use images? (10)
Have you put a fair use image in userspace? (-50)
Have you uploaded a picture you created, e.g. designed in an image editing program/vector drawing tool, not taken with a camera? (5)
Have you ever travelled more than two miles (three kilometres) out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (2)
... more than 15 km (10 miles)? (4)
... more than 40 km (25 miles)? (10)
... more than 160 km (100 miles)? (50)
... more than 400 km (250 miles)? (75)
... more than 1600 km (1000 miles)? (150)
Have you ever paid for (purchased) an item (archived article, song, book, etc.) solely to have access to it in order to improve the content of an article you were editing? (3)
... with a value of more than USD 5? (6)
... with a value of more than USD 10? (12)
... with a value of more than USD 20? (24)
... with a value of more than USD 50? (50)
... do you not use USD, and used an online currency converter to calculate the above? (10)
Did you plagiarize the content you had purchased, rather than following Wikipedia standards for using sources? (-400)
Do you justify the plagiarism because at least the content's creator made some money off your purchase? (-1000)
Have you ever successfully nominated a picture for Featured Picture status? (10)
2-5 pictures? (15)
6-10 pictures? (30)
11-50 pictures? (50)
Did you take that/those picture(s) yourself? (20)
Or did you take it/them from this/another website? (5)
Or did you take the picture(s), put it on (an)other website(s), and put that on Wikipedia? (22.5)
Have you ever successfully nominated an article for Featured Article status? (15)
2-5 articles? (25)
6-10 articles? (50)
11-50 articles? (100)
Did you significantly add to that/those article(s)? (25)
Did you greatly add to that/those article(s)? (30)
Did you create that/those article(s)? (50)
Or did you just create a stub and someone else expanded it? (-25)
Do you object to this set of questions because someone else is getting points for nominating a Featured Article you wrote? (20)
2-5 articles you wrote? (40)
6-10 articles you wrote? (80)
Do you hate to do "serious" research on Wikipedia because it's more fun to edit it? (10)
Have you reviewed over 20 articles on Peer review? (200)
Do you review Peer review requests every day? (250)
Have you noticed that Peer review is in serious trouble due to lack of reviewers, and that is why the previous questions are worth so many points? (10)
Translations and interwiki
Have you ever translated an article into another language? (50)
More than 1? (100)
More than 50? (500)
Have you ever translated a template, or something other than an article, into a foreign language? (25)
More than 1? (75)
More than 50? (500)
Do you know how to add a foreign language interwiki link to a page? (10)
Have you ever followed a foreign language interwiki link to figure out what that word was in another language? (15)
Have you ever added a foreign language interwiki to an article? (25)
More than once? (50 + 15 for every other article you've added one into.)
Does your userpage have foreign language interwikis? (33)
More than 1? (75)
More than 5? (150)
Were any of these accounts in languages you did not speak? (5)
Did you try to get a translation that said more or less "Please leave message on my [[:en:User talk:username|english talk page]]? (25)
Have you found out that {{babel}} works in almost any language? (25)
Have you ever edited the wikipediaholic test in a language other than your native language? (50)
More than 1? (150 + a job as a translator)
More than 10? (500)
Or did you use babelfish or another translator? (10)
Did people say the translation was utterly wrong? (-20)
Special pages
Do you click on "
Random article" at least once a day (or just because you're bored)? (3.5)
When you click "
Random article", do you, more often than not, find an article you have edited? (50)
Have you ever gotten the same random article twice in a row? (85)
... three times in a row? (150, and add 30 more for each random page you have gotten in a row)
Do you hit
Alt-X (or its equivalent on your keyboard) more than any other shortcut key? (3)
... do you do this often just because you get bored? (3 more, and the Boredom Award)
Or do you press
Alt-S more often because of your many edits? (10)
Do you protest the above question because you press
Alt-P more often because you make sure that your edits are good? (12)
Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (5)
Did you start editing before turning 17? (5)
... 15? (25)
... 13? (40)
... 11? (100)
Do the above questions upset you because they seem
ageist? (20)
Have you learned a new language or improved in one you already knew for the primary purpose of being able to read the Wikipedia in that language? (100)
... or for some other reason, such as picking it up where you left it so many years ago? (10)
Do you forget to think twice before you say something to real people, but re-check a hundred times what you have typed in before posting your comment in a talk page? (5)
Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7)
Are you an ambassador for Wikipedia? (2)
Are you an ambassador for more than one Wikipedia? (2 points more)
Do you ever write stuff like "Blah?BLAHBLAHBLAH!BLAHBLAHblalalALALAALAL!!DkdlcdsaddadsdsddDFdkfFdsf I AM VANDELIZING! AND NOBODY KNOWS I AM VANDELIZING AND I am Example Username: Wikicookie!! VANDELIZING!! And Still don't know who wrote it."?(Take this test 5 billion times)
Have you been banned? (-1000)
Because you've requested it? (1000)
Because you couldn't sustain your wikibreak? (50)
Is your main goal in life to vandalize Wikipedia? (-1000000000)
Have you ever made nonsensical edits to pages that no one will ever see anyway just because you can? (1)
Have you ever reverted those changes out of guilt? (3)
... and then reverted them back (and maybe back again) to increase your edit count? (6)
Did you just regret making those changes because you know they'll show up on Recent Changes? (1)
... or did you regret them because you'll violate 3RR? (1)
... or did you not care because 3RR states that self-reversions are allowed? (2)
... or do it by hand because you don't use Windows? (30)
... or do you vandalize with them instead? (-50 and removal from the permissions list)
Have you ever created a custom userspace template used to warn vandals? (50)
Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25)
When you see real-life vandalism, do you have the urge to revert it? (15)
Did you actually revert it? (100 + a real anti-vandalism barnstar)
Are you totally unfazed by the words "poop", "penis", and "anus" because of the massive amounts of it you have seen while on vandalism patrol? (150)
Have you ever added these words to an article? (-200)
Do you want to contest this because there are legitimate uses for those words? (eg. an article on
Human feces) (240)
Have you ever had a disgruntled vandal create an Personal attack article named after you or your username that was speedily deleted as a personal attack? (10)
Do you think these questions are unfair because you already knew that language? (20)
Do you now feel heavily prejudiced against because you prefer to use the .NET languages or C++? (30)
Do you at least want to run a bot? (5)
Do you even know what a bot is? (1)
Do you not know what a bot is? (-2)
Have you ever suggested a job for a bot? (5)
Was it adopted? (20, and our congratulations!)
...or was it unmercilessly shot down before it ever got started? (-5 and our sympathies)
...or did someone else beat you to the punch? (10 for at least trying)
Do you feel the need to hurt the other guy for suggesting your idea first? (-5 and a free tour of
anger management)
Do you find this whole section unfair since it judges you for programming skills? (-5)
...Is this because you can not gain points here? (-5)
...Or have you resolved to figure it out on your own so you can one day operate a bot? (50 for your determination)
How Wikipedia has affected you
Physical behavior
Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (12)
Are you sleeping in after 8:00 in the morning because you edited Wikipedia overnight? (5)
after 9:00? (10)
after 10:00? (20)
... Did you check all of the above questions because it is 8:00, 9:00 or 10:00 somewhere in the world? (3 points for being smart)
When you wake up in the night and can't get back to sleep due to some nagging worry, do you get up and start working on Wikipedia so that you will get tired and have something relaxing to fill your mind when you go back to bed? (8)
Does that work? (6)
Or were you so engaged on Wikipedia you forgot to go back to bed? (10)
Do you lose sleep because you think you may have misspelled a word like mispelled on some talk page? (6)
Did you wake up to check if you misspelled it? (6)
Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (3)
Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5)
Do you wake up in the night in a cold sweat wondering whether your latest submission was truly written from the
NPOV? (6)
Do you have nightmares about vandalism? (7.5)
Did you notice that this question is 2 sections above this? (5)
Have you woken up at night to realize you're at your computer editing Wikipedia? (80)
...more than once? (40 more for each occurence)
Have you been forced to switch your mousing hand because your shoulder/arm was in terrible pain from using Wikipedia all day? (30)
... and did you have to switch back because you screwed up the other arm too? (50)
Did you need arm/shoulder surgery shortly after that? (2% of the cost of the surgery in
United States dollars)
Are you morbidly obese because you spend so much time editing that you never exercise? (5)
... or do you burn all the calories you need to to stay healthy because of the energy you use typing? (15)
Do you wake up early in order to edit Wikipedia? (5)
Before 7:00 a.m. (where you live)? (8)
Before 6:30 a.m. (where you live)? (15)
Before 6:00 a.m. (where you live)? (25)
Before 5:30 a.m. (where you live)? (35)
Before 5:00 a.m. (where you live)? (50)
Before 4:30 a.m. (where you live)? (75)
Before 4:00 a.m. (where you live)? (100)
Did you try to wake up at one of those times in order to get the extra points? (10)
But failed miserably because you're not "a morning person"? (-6)
Or did you succeed because you knew it was for the good of Wikipedia? (15)
Or do you protest to the above question because waking up early decreases the quality of your edits and is thus not for the good of Wikipedia? (15)
Or are edits made in the early morning better? (10)
Do you think the previous question has a POV score? (10)
When you are reading a book, is the first thing you do to flip to the
index and search for "Wikipedia"? (10)
Do you actually find it? (15)
If you don't find it, do you tremble with frustration and disappointment? (20)
Or do you attempt to make an edit to the book to have it? (50)
Do you succeed? (200)
If you do, do you immediately flip to the corresponding pages and spend a considerable amount of time reading about Wikipedia? (25)
Do you protest to the above two questions because you didn't find it and received fewer points than those who did? (5)
Do you protest to the above question now as further edits have made this false? (0, that's life)
Or do you protest to this whole question, because you are so busy on Wikipedia that you have no time for reading about it? (50)
Do you not care about your dental health because you are too into Wikipedia? (50)
Do you not visit the dentist because you are too busy editing Wikipedia? (100, go have a
Wikibreak now!)
Do you not use Listerine, even if the dentist advised you to do so? (1)
...Or do you ONLY brush your teeth once a day? (10)
...or do you never brush your teeth at all? (100, and go see a dentist now!)
Do you protest the above questions because you cannot afford to buy Listerine? (-5, that is sad)
Do you protest the above questions because you cannot afford to buy a toothbrush? (-20, that is very sad)
Is it because you donated your whole fortune to Wikipedia? (100, 0.01% does not count as the whole fortune)
Or do you protest the whole question about dental health because you visit your dentist regularly, brush regularly, and rinse your mouth after every meals? (50, and a dental award)
Do you experience
withdrawal,
clinical depression, uncontrollable weeping, or some other affliction when you are unable to use Wikipedia for the time of one week? (8)
…the time of 5 days? (16)
…3 days? (24)
2 days? (40)
1 day? (64)
1 hour? (128)
Are you annoyed by the seemingly random nature of the previous six questions' scores? (5)
Do you wish to protest the above question because you realize that they are not random, but are combinations of non-one
powers of two? (12)
Have you evolved into a cyborg from overuse of Wikipedia? (100)
Did answer yes to the above because you think "
cyborg" is a broad enough term to encompass just about anyone who uses Wikipedia to supplement their own knowledge? (10)
Have you used this shape to improve Wikipedia at an immense level? (50)
Or do you just vandalize unstoppably? (-100000000 and a strong electromagnetic pulse)
Social life
Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
Did that ruin your social life? (15)
Did that help your social life? (25)
Do you protest that question because you do not have a social life? (25)
Is Wikipedia to blame? (50)
Do you have a
Wikipedia T-shirt (or another Wikipedia product)? (10)
More than one? (20)
Do you at least want one? (50)
Did you click the link and spend the last 5 minutes reading all the different shirts? (120)
Is something you have thought was important, such as social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (10)
Do you judge people you know in "real life" partly on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (10)
... fully on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (30)
Do you think quality of contributions to Wikipedia is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (15 and a crash course in dating)
Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are "productive" or "useful" - unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching
football? (10)
Did you feel the need to disambiguate the link to football in the last question? (10)
... or did you not because you knew someone from across the pond would just change it? (5)
Did you actually change it, just to see if someone would put it back? (15)
Did you put it back so that these questions wouldn't be inappropriate? (10)
Do you like football or any sport more than Wikipedia? (-50)
More than one sport? (-100, you think you're a wikipediaholic?)
Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (2)
Have you ever met another Wikipedian in "real life"? (3)
Do you live with another Wikipedian? (40)
Are you "in a relationship" (boyfriend/girlfriend) with another Wikipedian? (20)
Did you "recruit" them to Wikipedia by telling them how amazing it is? (70)
Have they asked if Wikipedia is more important to you than they are? (30)
... and did they break up with you because you said yes when they asked you if you think Wikipedia is more important than they are? (50)
Did you break up with them because they answered no when you asked them if Wikipedia was more important than you are? (150, and call your psychiatrist NOW!)
Do you protest that question because you're too young? (100)
Are you engaged with another Wikipedian? (25)
Have you married another Wikipedian? (45)
Do you want to protest to the previous question because you're too young to do so/unable to do so for whatever reason? (15)
Do you have Wikipedian children? (65)
Do you want to protest to the previous question because you're too young to do so/unable to do so for whatever reason? (20)
Have you chosen to edit Wikipedia instead of being "intimate" with your partner? (15)
Do you want to protest to the previous question because you're too young to do so/unable to do so for whatever reason? (10)
Are you dating a non-Wikipedian? (-6)
Do you have
NPOV issues with the negative score attributed to the previous question? (6)
Have you told your significant other/parent something from Wikipedia while on the phone? (10)
Was he or she impressed? (8)
... or bored? (-5)
Are you someone who is considered a social outcast? (5)
Did you realize that it did not actually say US dollars? (10)
Do you have more Wikipedia articles open than pictures of your spouse/family? (3 points for each one)
Do you use terms like "dab", "lk", "sp", "revert", "blanking", "content", "NPOV", "vanity page", "minor edit", "vandal", "troll", "developer", "double brackets", "diff", "hist", "todo", "watchlist", "wikimarkup", or other terms in their Wikipedia sense in unrelated contexts? (5)
Did you take an expensive language course just to edit Wikipedia in more languages? (125)
Did this cost more than $100? (40)
More than $250? (90)
More than $500? (200)
Would you risk your family members' lives just to edit an article? (200)
Have you ever referred to offline alter egos as "sock puppets"? (2)
Do you not have a social life because you're too tired from editing on Wikipedia? (40)
Did you notice that a similar question is just a few questions above this one? (1)
Do you think that the previous questions are POV? (10)
Do you have the Wikipedia gadget on your
Google desktop? (10)
Have you ever wanted to edit a chat or IRC message you just sent? (5)
Was that in a Wikipedia-related channel? (3)
Wikipedia itself? (10)
Have you ever signed a real e-mail or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (1)
More than 10 times? (10)
More than 50 times? (50)
More than 100 times? (100)
On every e-mail? (200)
Have you ever put double brackets around a word outside of Wikipedia? (3)
...more than ten times? (15)
...more than fifty times? (60)
...on every word you type?!? (200)
Or do you want to protest the last question because it promotes
overlinking? (10)
Have you joined a Wikipedia community on a non-Wikipedia website? (3)
Do you refuse to use social networking sites like
Facebook or
MySpace because your Wikipedia user page is "better than that crap"? (8)
Do you protest to the last question because you do use Facebook or MySpace but insist your Wikipedia user page is still better? (10)
Do you link to your Wikipedia user page from your Facebook or MySpace profile? (15)
Do you think that the two previous questions are non-wikipediholic? (25)
Have you begun to say "asterisk apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe Support/Oppose/Comment apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe tilde tilde tilde tilde", like in
WP:FAC or
WP:FPC, when you agree/disagree/want to say something in real life? (20)
Are you opposed to Britannica and all other encyclopedias because Wikipedia is better? (5)
Are you in support of Britannica, but you think Wikipedia is better? (40)
Are you opposed to Google because Wikipedia is better? (15)
Are you in support of Google, but you think Wikipedia is better? (75)
Have you ever stopped using touch-typing tutor CDs/having touch-typing courses because you've learnt how to touch-type because of Wikipedia? (5)
Did you actually throw away the CD? (6)
The rest of the world
Did you scoff at this header because Wikipedia is the world? (20)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a country that you don't live in? (10)
... in two or more? (20)
... in five or more? (50)
... in ten or more? (110)
Are you currently in a Wikipedia cult/clan? (15)
... Are you leader of that clan? (30)
... that wars with other encyclopedia clans? (45)
... with another Wikipedia clan? (70)
Do you protest the above question, because you don't war against other Wikipedians? (80)
Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (2)
Did you throw away that encyclopedia? (6)
Or did you keep that encyclopedia to cite as a source in Wikipedia articles? (10)
... and did so correctly? (5)
... or went ahead and added the material without providing a source? (-10)
Have you ever submitted an assignment for work or school that cited Wikipedia? (6)
Did it cite an article that you had edited? (10)
... created? (25)
And did the teacher give you a bad grade, because he/she is biased against Wikipedia? (10)
Do you think this unfair? (15)
Do you think
Uncyclopedia[1] is better than Wikipedia? (-200)
Do you actually believe the (of course fake) content on Uncyclopedia? (-10)
Or is Wikipedia better? (25)
Do you hate Uncyclopedia so much you could smash your computer? (50)
But didn't as doing so would disable your editing abilities? (50)
Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence)
Have you written your Wikipedia username as your name on homework assignments? (10)
... because your username is your real name? (-9)
Do you take out library books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little about? (8)
Have you ever bought a CD, movie, video game, book or other media product so you can write the article, scan the cover and upload it to Wikipedia? (5)
Did you pay full price for it? (5)
... or even more? (10)
... or did you steal it? (-40, no points for lawbreakers)
Have you ever considered running a wiki version of your school's site? (3)
Have you ever done so? (5)
When you applied for community service, did you volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (15)
Have you listed your work on Wikipedia on your curriculum vitae or resumé? (10)
Or will you do it when you apply for a job or university in the future? (5)
Do you believe that nearly all of your success in your workplace or school comes from information gained on Wikipedia? (4)
When you see vandalism in real life, do you think "These must be the type of people that vandalize Wikipedia"? (2)
Have you ever recommended Wikipedia to any of your real family or friends? (4)
Did they join Wikipedia and contribute? (8)
Have they themselves become Wikipediholics? (12)
During
driver's education, did you ask everyone you crashed into to give you a break instead of
biting you? (4)
Did thinking about Wikipedia cause you to crash in the first place? (-3)
Or are you too young to drive, so you stay at home editing Wikipedia instead? (10)
If you don't, did you just look for his article? (5)
Has he ever talked to you on your user talk page? (6)
... or are you Jimbo Wales? (1000000)
Did you lie to the above question to win the test? (-1000025)
Or are you Jimbo Wales, but not the Jimbo Wales? (2)
because you changed your name to that of your idol? (1000)
... and do you talk to yourself on your user talk page anyway? (5)
Are you upset that Jimbo has not claimed his undoubtedly permanent top spot on the top 20 highest scoring users? (5)
Or do you think that eventually someone will get over 100000 points? (5)
Do you know where the Wikimedia Foundation is based? (10)
Do you know when Wikipedia was founded? (01.152001)
Did you correct the score above because the date was incorrect? (20)
Did you discover Wikipedia from Larry Sanger's message? (40)
Do you know what this refers to? (50)
Have you ever thought about the
social impact of Wikipedia? (10)
Have you ever been asked about it in an interview (e.g. for a newspaper)? (25)
Do you think Wikipedia will be better than every other encyclopedia soon? (8)
... or you think it is already better than every other encyclopedia? (18)
... because you can change the spelling of the last word in the last question to "encyclopædia"? (2)
Do you consider Wikipedia to be the closest thing to a precursor for "the computer" in Star Trek? (5)
Do you ever use Wikipedia to resolve a dispute? (41)
Have you ever cheered out loud when you look at the updates on the Wikipedia
Awareness Statistics? (5)
Have you ever written a book about Wikipedia? (150)
... and written an article about that book? (-5 for not following
WP:COI)
... then had someone correct a slip you made in the article? (5)
Did you call the book Main Page? (-50 for making disambiguation a mess)
Are you really mad about the fact that you wrote an entire book about Wikipedia yet got only 150 points? (5)
Do you know how many users Wikipedia has? (10)
... or do you protest to the above question because the number of users change every minute? (5)
... but then you realize you don't need to know the exact number of users (estimation) to answer yes to the above question? (5)
Do you know approximately how often a new user account is created? (5)
Have you ever made up a name for wikipedia users? (10)
Meta-questions
Have you ever taken this quiz more than once simply to correspond with the most recent version? (3)
Have you cheated on this test? (-40)
... In almost every section? (-100)
... to get into the Top 20 below? (10)
... even though you know there is no visibly officialtop 20 below list? (7)
Did you immediately think of ways to improve this test, or adjust the scores so that they neatly add up to 100? (3.141592653589793)
... such as changing the score of the previous question to π? (1.61813398875)
... or by removing the previous two questions? (2.718281828459)
Do you remember when the scores actually added up to 100 and laugh now that there are more questions than that on the test? (57)
Do you protest to the above question because you didn't know about Wikipedia when the score was 100? (3)
Do you find it funny that all of these scores are mathematically-important numbers? (6.67E-9)
Did you know the last question was scientific notation? (100)
Did you actually solve it? (100)
Have you edited this test? (14)
... and then taken it again? (4)
... and you got a higher score? (16)
... was that only because you edited the test to get a higher score? (-50, no cheating)
... so you could remain in denial about your affliction? (8)
... or so you could claim bragging rights? (12)
Do you think your score is too high and maybe you'll do something about it after "a few more edits"? (7)
... or are you so proud of it that you retake the test every month or more often to see how much more addicted you've become? (10)
Have you ever clicked back in order to score a question because you forgot it? (1)
Did you notice that there is a different number of questions in the automated version? (2)
Do you protest to the above question because the two tests appear to be completely identical to you? (1)
Were you annoyed to find out you didn't have to be adding up your score manually? (2)
Were you then relieved to find that the automated version wasn't working? (2)
... then check back again and find that it had been fixed? (1)
Did you read through all of these questions without keeping score and are relieved that there was an automated page? (1)
Did you do this test with a calculator or paper because you didn't know there was an automated version? (10)
... or did know but added your score manually anyway? (40)
... without a calculator? (50)
... even though there was one right in front of you? (20)
Will you put a calculator in front of you the next time you take this test, so you can get those 20 points? (10)
... solely in your head? (250)
... or do you have parental controls on your browser that don't allow you to take the automated version? (50)
... or have you used
PeaceFire to get by your parental controls so you can take the automated version? (15)
... or did you see the automated version and decide to do the manual instead? (10)
Did you take both tests, compare the scores, and see which one gives you more points? (4)
If you have a web page, do you proudly display your score from this test on it? (5)
Did you notice that your user page could technically be your web page, and are displaying the score there to get 5 extra points? (5)
Have you ever not updated your user page Wikipediholic test score because it had gone down? (50)
Did you purposefully retake the test, letting your score fall, so that you could add 50 points to it by answering yes to the last question? (-51 — that is just sad)
Did you realize you've just read — with academic interest! — a list of hundreds of questions and added up your score? (2)
... and ignore the fact that the open nature of this quiz prevents your score from ever being objective? (2)
... or did you create an automated version of this test so you wouldn't have to add up your score? (100)
... because you didn't know there already was one? (100)
... or did know but made one anyway? (100)
... or did you just create one before one existed? (125)
Did you ask the creator to fix it when it failed? (20)
Upon seeing the top 20 scores at the bottom there, did you go back into the test to see if you could squeeze more points from it? (15)
... did you realize that since this test is dynamic and ever-changing, it really doesn't matter? (1)
... and did you not care? (3)
... or realize that you can add a question worth a large number of points and then remove it to claim the top score? (3)
Were you extremely addicted early on (score above 400 in your first three months)? (30)
Did you score above 600 in your first three months? (45)
Did you score above 800 in your first three months? (75)
Did you score above 1000 in your first three months? (100)
Did you score above 1200 in your first three months? (125)
Did you score above 1500 in your first three months? (150)
Did you score above 2000 in your first three months? (200)
Did you score above 3000 in your first three months? (250, are you okay?)
Did you score above 5000 in your first three months? (400, and a ticket for one free life)
Did you score above 10,000 in your first three months?!?! (500, and a possible investigation)
Did you score above 15,000 in your first three months? (750, you really need help)
Did you score above 20,000 in your first three months? (1000, go see a doctor NOW!)
Do you protest to these questions because when you were in your first three months, the scores weren't that high? (100)
Did you lie in the above questions just to increase your score? (-2500, no cheating)
Did you delay taking this test because you were too busy editing other Wikipedia article(s)? (5)
Have you wanted to move this page to conform to Wikipedia's
naming conventions? (5)
... have you done so? (15)
... did you just check to see if there was a redirect? (2)
Have you added together all of the point values on this test just to see how many points are possible? (5)
Do you know the number off the top of your head? (40)
Are you going to do this after you finish? (2)
Do you get upset because people cause the maximum score to change often? (2)
Do you have something you should be doing, and are procrastinating by reading all of these questions? (10)
Do you take this test on a yearly basis or more? (1)
On a monthly basis or more? (12)
On a weekly basis or more? (52)
On a daily basis OR MORE? (365)
Is this the first time you have taken this test? (1)
Are you planning to retake it? (5)
Have you taken this test more than once? (2)
More than 5 times? (10)
More than 10 times? (20)
More than 20 times? (40)
More than 40 times? (80, how do you keep count?)
More than 50 times? (100, Medic, quick, it's an emergency!)
More than 150 times? (300, Go see a doctor NOW!!!)
... because you have OCD or wikiholic syndrome or editcountits? (0.11111111, go see a doctor if your score is above 1992.52525252)
... and you are obsessed or compulsed or wikiholicified or editcountitsified or something else with Wikipedia? (10)
... did you even bother to read or pronounce the above question, or fix it because there are words that don't exist (see neologisms)? (15)
Or did you read them, because you are an obsessed, cumpulsed, wikipediholic, editcountitic, Wikipedian? (20)
Do you have over 10 edits to this page? (10)
Over 50? (50)
Over 100?! (100)
Over 200?!? (200)
Have you ever added the toolong template to the top of this page, for humor purposes only, as the test seems to grow weekly? (10)
Did you take this test manually from top to bottom after January 1st, 2007 (when its length was already impressive), despite the automated version being much quicker? (150, and a free appointment with a psychologist)
Have you ever edited the scores? (-10)
Because you wanted to get a higher score? (-25)
Because you are a math geek? (5)
Are you mad because you lose points for being a math geek? (100)
Did you notice you now come out ahead for being a math geek? (1)
Because you needed to get edits to improve your score in other sections? (-10)
Have your score changes lowered your score? (100)
Did you edit scores to get the last question right, therefore raising your grade? (-1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
Did you change that last score? (-1000)
Because you were mad? (-1000)
Because it was too long? (1001)
Did you notice that the extremely long score a few questions ago is one followed by one hundred zeroes? (100)
Did you count them? (1000)
Did you know that there is a name for that number? (100)
Did you know it off the top of your head? (100)
Did you go to the wikipedia article about it? (100)
Were you mad because there isn't a link to it? (10)
Did you edit it? (1000)
Have you ever counted the number of points on the quiz, if you answered everything "yes"? (10)
More than once? (10)
More than five times? (20)
More than ten times? (50)
More than twenty times? (75)
More than fifty times? (100)
More than seventy-five times? (200)
More than one hundred times? (500)
Did you do it using the automated version? (-100)
Have you ever counted the highest number of points one could get on the quiz? (10)
More than once? (10)
More than five times? (20)
More than ten times? (50)
More than twenty times? (75)
More than fifty times? (100)
More than seventy-five times? (200)
More than one hundred times? (500)
Did you do it using the automated version? (-100)
Have you ever counted the lowest number of points one could get on the quiz? (10)
Only because STBotD has added several thousand interwiki links, worth 15 points each, and since I feel so close to my bots, I pretend that they are a part of me.
Woo...hoo! I beat Darkness Lord, after AndonicO, and took the crown. After I got 14th, I got 25000, and my edit count was only 2000, now after a few days, I bumped up to... 26709, then up to 28265, proclaiming FIRST... again, then dropping down to 2nd! Can't believe it! I am such a Wikipediholic... I simply log on to Wikipedia everyday for more than 5 hours!!! I am on Wikipedia after school from 5pm to 10pm (local time)! (That had gotten me 50 points or so! (Despite the fact I am kid under 12, I am considered the genius at my school. I am actually just a regular kid, just like everyone else.)
WOOT! Top 20! Anyone know of a good "shrink"? Anyone think using the name "shrink" to talk about a psychiatrist isn't
NPOV? Add 100 more free points! Hersfold(
talk|
work) 21:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, there are two
ts in that name... Oh, and I've removed my previous scores (6-odd thousand and 4-odd thousand) to be fair. Now: here are the words of your new former 16th place WikiGod: Visit
this now! Also,
Chris, your name is very NPOV: it could be either Christopher or Christine! Oh, and I am David P. A. Hunter, Esq., but I changed my display name...
I've never put my score up here before. Heh. It'll probably get reverted, but who cares? I'm the queen of the castle! I can now say that I am insane! Irrevocably. Hello? Psychiatrist? Anyone here? No? Then YESSSSSSS! I can stay a Wikiholic! But oh no! They're coming to get me. The men in black suits. They're grabbing me, taking me away! Help me! I... need...you...Wikipe- ahhhhh!