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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 an hour (1 hour and 30 minutes with the manual version) because there are more than 650 questions!
Depending on your browser, browsing away from the automated test page may cause you to lose all of your progress. But real Wikipediholics don't do that anyway. Come to think of it, actually they might, if they want to edit this article.
Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (6)
Do you feel guilty about editing Wikipedia too much? (40, plus maybe a
WikiBreak)
Have you been using (editing) Wikipedia for a day to a week? (4)
A week to a month? (5)
A month to four? (30)
Four months to a year? (78)
A year to two? (280)
Two years to four? (700)
More than four years? (1200)
More than 23 years, 193 days? (-3000, smartypants... literally...)
Do you have Wikipedia bookmarked? (4)
Did you just bookmark it for the points? (-150, desperate... but nice try.)
Is Wikipedia set as your home page? (15)
Is Wikipedia in your browser's search bar? (9)
Did a Wikipedia page end up in your "most visited pages" list? (10)
In the top rank? (50)
Was it your user page? (-10)
Was it a page in the Wikipedia, Template or Talk namespaces? (25)
Was it this page? (50)
Did you just refresh the page over and over again for those points? (-55, cheater)
Are you annoyed at having lost your check marks in the automated version because of having refreshed the page? (-100, sore loser)
Are ALL of your "most visited" slots Wikipedia pages? (100)
Did you just clear your history and then reload this page to do that? (-400, you should have learnt from 3 lines up)
Have you had Wikipedia open in more than one window/tab at a time? (4)
More than five? (11)
More than ten? (27)
More than thirty? (59)
More than fifty? (120, and problems....)
Have you used Wikipedia on more than one browser at a time? (16)
More than 5? (11)
Have you vandalized Wikipedia on one browser and then went on another browser to revert the edit? (-1000, YOU VANDAL, CHEATER, AND LIAR!!!!)
Have you ever made a sockpuppet of another account pretending to be them? (-2000, GET YOUR BUTT OUTTA HERE!!)
Have you ever made a sockpuppet and then keep warning them about unconstructive edits? (-99999999999999998888888888888888888888, YOU IDIOT!!!!!)
Have you ever used Wikipedia to further your work related projects. (10)
Where you use Wikipedia
Have you used Wikipedia from more than one computer in the past week? (5)
... more than five? (51)
... more than ten? (141)
... more than twenty? (331)
... did you edit Wikipedia on those computers? (10)
... all those computers? (200)
Have you edited Wikipedia from more than one operating system in the past week? (10)
Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (10)
Do you edit Wikipedia on a tablet computer? (35)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia from
the Moon? (-8000, LIAR!)
Did you really? (8000, plus an additional 4000 for each alien you convinced to join)
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)
Did you pick that restaurant because of the wireless connection? (5)
Have you ever paid for a wireless internet connection used to hit the wiki? (15)
In flight? (33)
Are you taking the test while in flight? (133)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (-100, LIAR! But, if you really did, -200 and a funeral service; Wikipedia doesn't need idiots like you!)
If you have any devices that run on
iPhone OS, do you own the Official Wikipedia app?(10)
Did you just buy an iPod Touch/
iPhone just to get the wiki app? (16 impressive)
While watching your favorite TV show? (20)
While watching TV, listening to music on the computer and two or more stereos and playing video games? (190 and an award for being a freakishly good multi-tasker)
While at a party or visiting a significant other, did you feel a need to check your watchlist? (20)
Did you ask somebody if you could use their computer to check Wikipedia? (40)
Did you leave the party/significant other so you could check it? (80)
Do you actually use Wikipedia at public computers, even if some pages advise you not to? (5)
Or do you uncheck the "Remember me" box when logging in? (15)
Do you usually uncheck that box anyway? (5)
Do you use Wikipedia when you are waiting for a flight? (20)
...when you should be on a flight? (50, you're a waster of money!)
Do you find yourself importing Wikipedia's reference, navigation, and infobox templates? (10)
Do you edit Wikipedia at work? (50, GET BACK TO WORK!!!)
Wait, do you mean that you edited from Earth, and that Earth is NOT your home planet? (10↑100, and welcome to Wikipedia, fellow sentient being! Jimmy Wales would like a word with you about creating new WP's for your species' culture(s). Be bold and create it/them!)
Mars? (60000000, wow! Any Martians?)
Jupiter? (-13500000000000, the radiation would have fried your laptop)
Saturn? (175000000000000000, please upload a picture of the rings NOW pleasepleaseplease)
Uranus? (600, not as bad as the others)
Neptune? (-7800000, liar again, you'd have been blown away)
Pluto? (-60000000000000, cheater, Pluto isn't a planet anymore!)
Do you argue that the above question is unfair as you didn't know that Pluto was demoted? (-100, and you call yourself a Wikipediholic)
Do you argue that it should be called 134340 Pluto? (134340)
Have you edited at your friends' house? (10)
At your BF/GF's House? (20)
At your parents' House? (10)
...because you live with your parents? (-40 for cheating the above question)
...but you think that the above question is unfair because you are still a minor? (40)
At your grandparent's house? (20)
When you use Wikipedia
Do you use the
shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3)
Have you gotten ideas about articles from your dreams? (10)
Have you edited from the previous evening until 1 o'clock in the morning (local time)? (50)
... until 4:00 AM? (120)
... until 7:00 AM? (250)
... until 10:00 AM? (400 and some sleeping pills)
Do you consume energizing drinks to keep you up? (5)
Do you hold Wikipedia nights, that is, nights when you intentionally go to bed late, after spending a certain number of hours editing Wikipedia? (20)
Do you get people to join you in such an event? (30)
Do you make it a party? (100)
... and continue in the morning, without any sleep, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (180)
Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (40)
Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other/parents/boss? (6)
Have you edited Wikipedia while engaging in
sexual intercourse? (2000, you're SICK!!)
... do you always do this? (30000, you have a case of wikiphilia)
while doing any other activity? (2000, plus 100 for each other activity. You get admission into mental hospital and a good multi-tasking award)
...always? (30000, plus 200 for each other activity. You get admission into mental hospital and a good multi-tasking award)
Have you edited Wikipedia while eating? (10)
... do you do this more than half the time? (20)
... always? (60)
Have you edited a Wikipedia article while listening to its
spoken format? (50)
Did you create that version of the spoken format? (250)
...while listening to a completely unrelated article? (100)
Did this make you accidentally enter irrelevant information into the article you are editing? (-120)
Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (10)
More than three? (20)
Are you breaking a rule now? (12)
Did you steal a computer just so you could use Wikipedia? (1000, and a prison sentence)
Have you ever used Wikipedia for a research project and found yourself sidetracked to other articles that interest you? (9)
Have you taken a
WikiBreak and you were "successful"? (-20)
... or did you come back immediately during your Wikibreak? (20)
... but pretended it still counted because you only checked your watchlist and did not edit? (-5)
... and made notes of what you would edit when you returned? (50)
... did you manage to stay away for over a month? (-50)
... completely? (-200 - Never hurts to check the watchlist for the worst of changes)
... or do you not know what a Wikibreak is? (-1; you don't want to)
... or is it impossible for you to take a Wikibreak? (100)
... or do you feel horrified when you see a Wikibreak template? (1 and a {{WikiCookie}})
Have you ever used the Javascript Wikibreak Enforcer, because you knew you wouldn't be able to stay away otherwise? (50)
Did you panic as soon as you hit the save key after setting it? (25)
or did you relax and not worry about it? (100, Good for you!)
Did you sneak back in using a doppelganger account to disable it? (-200, and Your keyboard gets hidden :)
Did you turn off Javascript to stop it working? (-500, That's naughty!!!)
Did you alter your system time so it wouldn't kick in? (-1000 - Now that's plain out of order! :O )
Have you ever attempted to leave Wikipedia for good? (-300, mean)
Did you fail? (45)
Have you reached your 50% of your previous number of edits per month? (-50, but it's probably for the best)
100%? (50)
200%? (500, and check to make sure your partner isn't packing their things)
300%? (5000, and check to make sure your partner isn't packing your things)
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, have more faith in the servers)
Have you not spoken/interacted with any family members for 1 month due to editing Wikipedia? (40)
2 months? (70)
3 months? (100)
6 months? (300)
You can't remember when due to editing Wikipedia (125)
Have you ever pulled your car up outside of a restaurant with wireless so that you could "borrow" their Internet for a quick peek at Wikipedia? (70)
... do you do this every day? (200)
When writing something for school or work, do you often start trying to add internal links (or other Wiki formatting code) to it? (50)
Copying and pasting? (-20, naughty shortcut)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia during a thunderstorm? (100, very risky though)
Were you ever struck by lightning while editing Wikipedia? (-500, LIAR!)
Were you really? (1000, you're dedicated to the cause)
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? (11)
are you upset because that one wasn't? (12)
Did you edit this test while taking it? (10)
...by increasing the points so you could get a higher score than you otherwise would have? (-100, cheat)
Did you vandalize this test while taking it? (-1000)
Did you follow a link on this test... (20)
and then edit it... (50)
enough to be a featured article? (2000)
Have you ever been in an edit conflict? (5)
... more than 25? (50)
... more than 100? (125)
... too many to count? (200)
... with yourself? (150)
... more than three times? (1000, woah.)
Do you look at the newspaper everyday at the recent deaths to see if a notable
living person has died, so you can put {{recentdeath}} and take off the BLP tag on the talk page? (10)
Have your edits caused major controversy? (-1)
Have these edits been vandalism? (-250)
Have you ever browsed through an article's page history just to see different versions of the page? (10)
Just to see who was the first person to start the article? (15)
Have your ever typed a taboo word on Wikipedia? (-20 FOR EVERY TABOO WORD YOU TYPED AND -30 FOR EVERY TABOO WORD YOU'LL TYPE IN THE FUTURE, YOU MOTHERF***ING @?!$≠≈§ W***E!!!)
... Or you typed it because it helped an article? (10 but it still doesn't change the fact that you're a MOTHERF***ING @?!$≠≈§ W***E!)
Special pages
Do you click on
Random article at least once a day (just because you're bored)? (4)
Do you check your watchlist more than ten times a day? (10)
More than 25 times a day? (20)
Is your watchlist your homepage? (20)
... do you check your watchlist more than any other page on the Internet? (100)
... more than 100 x more often than you check your email inbox? (120)
Do you not know what a watchlist is? (-10, and find out)
Do you have more than 30 items in your watchlist? (5)
... more than 100? (30)
... more than 500? (120)
... more than 2,000? (400)
... more than 5,000?! (901)
... more than 10,000?!?!?! (1802, you may need to remove some items from your watchlist.)
... do you look through your entire watchlist for any vandalism since the last time you checked it? (30)
... do you use popups for this purpose? (20)
... do popups freeze your computer sometimes? (30)
... do you close the window, go back to Wikipedia, and log back onto your watchlist everytime this happens? (50)
Have you had to change your watchlist edit threshold? (10)
To more than 1000 edits? (200)
Is this page on your watchlist? (34)
Did you just add it to increase your score? (-38)
Have you used more than 20 different special pages? (20)
Images
Have you ever uploaded a picture or photograph to Wikipedia? (11)
More than 1? (22)
More than 10? (75)
More than 50? (175)
Did you include the appropriate usage templates? (11)
Did you release all your self-created images into the public domain? (10)
Did you release all your self-created images under a
Creative Commons license? (20)
Did you upload copyrighted images and use false template to keep the picture from being deleted? (-666, naughty, naughty)
Did you upload an image and claim appropriate fair use and appropriately explained it? (31)
Have you put a fair use image in userspace? (-50)
Or do you not care one bit about fair use and don't know what it is? (-200)
Have you uploaded a picture you created, e.g. designed in an image editing program/vector drawing tool, not taken with a camera? (10)
Have you ever traveled for longer than thirty minutes out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (20)
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? (10)
Have you purchased 2–5 items? (20)
Or 5–50 items? (100)
More than 50 items? (300)
Did you plagiarize the content you had purchased, rather than following Wikipedia standards for using sources? (-900)
Do you justify the plagiarism because at least the content's creator made some money off your purchase? (-1203)
Have you ever taken a photograph, or produced a drawing or diagram that became
featured? (150)
2-5 pictures? (201)
6-15 pictures? (350)
16+ pictures? (600)
Have you ever gone to view a picture on Wikipedia and it caused a browser glitch? (1)
Caused your browser to freeze or crash? (10)
Caused your entire computer to freeze or crash? (100)
...and then you rebooted and went back to the picture that caused it? (1000)
... because you think that reverting vandalism and other quality edits are more important than your user page? (19)
Do you have a user subpage? (7)
2-5? (17)
6-10? (27)
11-20? (37)
21-35? (47)
36-50? (71)
More than 50? (97)
Do you use your user subpages to prepare a template? (15)
... to prepare an article? (25)
... an entire group of articles? (74)
... to improve or create a WikiProject? (75)
... more than 3? (200)
... has it existed for at least 6 months? (30)
... is it still active? (90)
Have you ever edited another user's user page (not vandalize)? (3)
Have you vandalized that user's page? (-125)
... do you have a complex network of sockpuppets to vandalise people's userpages? (-10000, and a ban)
... and told them, even though it's easy enough to find out already? (2, for bravery)
Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first)
Did you archive your talk page after 10 comments or fewer? (-50; -20 for cheating the above question, and -30 more for being too much of a neat freak to be a Wikipediholic)
Do you have a total of more than 100 posts on your talkpage? (5)
... more than 1000? (80)
Does your user page/subpage have userboxes? (1)
... more than 5? (25)
... more than 10? (45)
... more than 50? (175)
... more than 100? (275)
... more than 300? (485)
...a ton? (789)
...you have no idea due to the great number of them? (1000)
... way too many to count? (10000, you seem to love userboxes...)
Have you ever created a userbox? (10)
... more than 5? (50)
... more than 10? (150)
... more than 50? (300)
Have you ever seen a userbox you created on someone else's user page/subpage? (30)
... more than one on the same page/subpage? (100)
Have you gotten an award for having such a great userpage? (50)
... have you helped to design others' pages? (100)
Vandalism
Do you vandalize while under an IP? (-500000)
Do you vandalize while logged in? (-20000)
... on a non-primary account? (-5000... you think you're so smart, well
you're not...)
... only on your own user page, vandal boxes/pages, the sandbox, and
WP:EUI? (-20)
... do you place pornography on your userpage? (-50000,
pervert)
... on others' userpages/talkpages? (-5000000000000000000000, sicko)
Did you try to vandalize, but the
Abuse Filter stopped you? (-10000, Now don't hack to disable it...)
Have you never ever vandalized Wikipedia? (25)
Have you ever been blocked, and the block was not lifted until it expired? (-10)
Have you ever created a custom userspace template used to warn vandals? (50)
Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25)
Have you ever had a disgruntled vandal create a personal attack article named after you or your username that was speedily deleted as a personal attack? (30)
... has a person you know in real life vandalised your page or created a now-deleted article about you? (20)
... more than 10 times? (100)
Has a vandal ever vandalized your user page or user talk page? (5 points for each time)
Have you ever been impersonated by a vandal, troll, or abusive sockpuppet? (10)
Have you ever visited a Wikipedia-vandal in real life? (-10)
Did you yell at him? (20)
Did he/she kill you? (-2000000, LIAR!!!)
Was he/she still a vandal afterwards? (-5, try again)
Did he/she correct his vandalism afterwards all by himself, said sorry and promised never to do it again? (120 per vandal, thank you)
Did he/she do it again anyway? (-100)
Are you a rollbacker? (30)
You prefer to do it the old-fashioned way because it's more fun? (40)
Did you write a 500-page essay about why Wikipedia vandals should be arrested? (2000)
...did you just start writing one to get the points? (-750, good effort though)
Have you also written this as a Wikipedia article, but then it was deleted which you're really angry about? (-1000, you liar; if you really did, it would say "You are re-creating a page that was deleted" at "Why Wikipedia vandals should be arrested" or at "Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia vandals should be arrested".)
Have you actually created such a Wikipedia article, but it was deleted and you think the deletion log must be faulty? (500)
Are you going to try and fix this problem yourself? (300)
Are you also going to badger an administrator into bringing it back onto Wikipedia, or to at the very least upload it to
Deletionpedia[1]? (250)
Or are you an administrator and will do this yourself? (280)
If you're not, are you going to beg an administrator to make you one so you can do it yourself? (400)
Or do you own a bot and are going to force it to upload your article to Deletionpedia? (-200 for cruelty to bots)
If you don't, are you going to steal someone else's for the purpose? (-2000 and a prison sentence, for both theft and cruelty to bots - you're almost being as bad as the vandals you think should be arrested, botnapper)
Have you installed an Anti-Vandal tool? (25)
Are you still perplexed by Willy on Wheels? (5)
Did you actually find
this article? (50, and a congratulations on the detective work)
You're lying again aren't you? (-100, and set fire to your pants)
Do you already know those languages, and still wrote a bot in them? (20)
Do you now feel heavily prejudiced against, because you prefer to use the .NET languages, Java, C++, or another language? (30)
Do you want to run a bot? (5)
Have you ever suggested a job for a bot? (5)
Was it adopted? (20, and our congratulations!)
Have you ever knowingly run a bot without approval? (-50)
Are you a bot? (1000 to your creator for inventing a bot that can take tests)
... Or has anybody ever called you a bot? (500)
... because you are counting the bot's edits as your own? (-2000)
Do you have more edits than even some of the fairly active bots? (5000)
Do you think you're a bot? (5, and some hours at the psychologist)
Do you make so many edits that you feel like a bot? (50, and a pat on the back)
Does this constant bot feeling make you feel important knowing that some idiot is going to have do it eventually? (10, we feel for you)
Does that feeling keep you from screaming in frustration because you do feel like a bot and now you know why they have bots for the boring things? (25, and a good stress ball)
Are you aware of what syntax such as {{{2|foo}}} does in a template? (40)
Do you know what {{fullurl:Wikipedia|action=raw}}, {{ucfirst:{{padright:wikipedia|10|!}}}}, {{#ifexist:{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}||{{db-talk}}}}, and {{msgnw:Template:Disambig}} will produce? (30 for each one)
Have you written a helpful monobook script? (200)
Do you have two or more of these scripts in your own personal monobook? (30)
Have you ever used
api.php to find information about Wikipedia pages? (120)
Have you used
Wget to find information about Wikipedia pages? (-150, they removed it in the robots.txt!)
Did you write a script, and then analyzed the results? (50)
... and tell people experimenting in articles to use the sandbox instead? (10)
Do you understand what wfMsgWeirdKey( $wgRequest->getVal( 'msg' ) ) means? (100; don't worry if not, it doesn't really matter)
How Wikipedia has affected you
Physical behavior
Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (15)
Are you not eating because you are too busy taking this test? (15 and a feast that'll fill ten full-grown men for a month)
Are you never at the bathroom because you are too busy on Wikipedia? (5 that explains why you smell like
cow manure).
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? (10)
Did you become so engaged on Wikipedia you forgot to go back to bed? (30)
Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (50)
Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5)
... do you have sexual fantasies about other Wikipedians? (-10000, ew?!?)
... have you experimented with them? (-99999999999999999999998, UM, EWW!)
More than 50 times? (20)
...everyday? (300)
Have you woken up at night to realize you're at your computer editing Wikipedia? (80)
Have you woken up early in order to edit Wikipedia? (10, here kindly mention your local time)
Before 7 am? (20)
Before 5 am? (50)
Before 2 am? (150)
Before 11 pm? (2000, GO TO BED!!!)
Did you try but fail miserably, since you're not a morning person? (5, at least you tried)
Do you not care about your dental health because you are too into Wikipedia? (50)
Do you not visit the dentist, ever, because you are too busy editing Wikipedia? (100, go have a
Wikibreak now, and don't breathe over me!)
Do you neglect using the shower because your always on Wikipedia? (101 and some soap, because your odor is making my nose bleed!)
Do you experience clinical depression, withdrawal, or some other symptoms (albeit minor) when you are unable to use Wikipedia for the time of 7 days? (5)
5 days? (10)
3 days? (30)
a day? (80)
6 hours? (120)
When you are forced off the wiki for 24 hours, and you are in the process of making a major edit or checking your watchlist, or reading a page, do you experience extreme depression? (20)
for 6 hours? (50)
for an hour? (100)
for any amount of time, regardless of its length? (200)
instantly? (1250, get a doctor now)
Do you weep for half an hour or more? (100)
Do you freak out when the power goes out? (20)
... or do you "kill kittens" while on Wikipedia? (-100)
Have you ever been injured/sick and checked the cure for your injury/sickness on Wikipedia? (40)
More than once? (80)
More than ten times? (120)
More than 30 times? (280)
When facing endeavors in real life, do you think to yourself that "if other Wikipedians have done it, so can I", check the article, and do it as if it were for Wikipedia? (100)
... when you're depressed, do you edit Wikipedia to escape? (20)
... does editing make you high? (100)
Have you used Wikipedia to memorise more than 20 digits of an irrational number such as pi? (10)
... more than 100 digits? (100)
to memorise a word longer than 40 letters? (5)
... longer than 80 letters? (20)
... longer than 120 letters? (50)
Do you sometimes give "edit summaries" for your real-life actions? (20)
Do you ever tell your friends about Wikipedia? (100 and good job :D)
Since registering on Wikipedia have you often ran naked around the house singing
Traveling Wilburys songs? (-100; go find your pants)
Have you gone legally blind because of editing Wikipedia too much? (1000)
...did you start editing just so you could answer "yes" to this question? (-400, it's not our fault)
...did you really start editing right now and gone blind? (2000)
Social life
Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
Do you have a
Wikipedia T-shirt (or another Wikipedia product)? (905 because you have to give us money for it)
Did you like giving us money? (3000)
More than one? (70)
Do you at least want one? (30)
Has someone left you because of Wikipedia? (30)
Is something you have thought was important, such as a social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (50)
... have almost all of your friends and acquaintances complained you edit Wikipedia too much? (100)
Do you judge people you know in real life partly or fully on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (10)
Do you think quality of contributions to Wikipedia is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (45 and a crash course in dating)
Do you think the last two questions are unfair because you are too busy editing Wikipedia to have any friends in real life? (500)
...or because they promoted discrimination? (500, plus a peace prize)
Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are productive or useful, unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching sports? (10)
Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (2)
Have you ever met another Wikipedian in real life? (20)
Is one of your friends a Wikipedian? (10)
Have you ever attended a Wikipedia-Meeting in real life? (50)
Do you live with another Wikipedian? (40)
Are you in a relationship (boyfriend/girlfriend) with another Wikipedian? (30)
With a Wikipedia vandal/troll? (-100)
A banned user? (-500)
An administrator? (80)
Did you recruit them to Wikipedia by telling them how amazing it is? (50)
Have you chosen to edit Wikipedia instead of being intimate with your partner? (25, and professional help)
Has your partner expressed concern that you are cheating on them with the wiki? (30)
Did you take a language course just to edit Wikipedia in more languages, or to translate Wikipedia articles in other languages to English? (125)
Have you beaten someone up because they tried to prevent you from editing? (5)
Was the person an administrator? (-50)
Was the person close to you? (5)
Was he/she a friend of yours? (10)
Was he/she your spouse? (-30, a big boo to you)
Do you have more friends on Wikipedia than in real life? (80)
Do you get angry when others call Wikipedia worthless and say it's for geeks? (20)
...or do you not even care anymore and embrace your geekness? (40, Nice pocket protector)
Do you get upset when people call Wikipedia "Just an Encyclopedia" (5)
Have you encouraged people with recognized mental disorders or addictions to use WP, claiming its "therapeutic"?(50)
Have you offered to help such people with their WP article on themselves, claiming its "therapeutic"?(100)
Have you attempted to present a paper on the therapeutic effects of Wikipedia to a peer reviewed journal or conference?(200)
Is your Ph.D. thesis on the therapeutic effects of Wikipedia, despite your having recognized problematic behaviors related to (your) editing of Wikipedia?(1000, and revocation of license to practice psychotherapy in your state)
Computing habits
Do you have a Wikipedia keyword or search plugin for your browser? (2)
Have you ever spent more than 15 minutes making one edit? (5)
... more than 30 minutes? (10)
... more than an hour? (25)
... more than 2 hours? (75)
... more than 3 hours? (120)
... more than 5 hours? (300)
... more than 8 hours? (1200, learn to make up your mind.)
... more than 24 hours? (123456, Really. it takes that long to make 1 single edit?)
... did you get logged off? (30)
... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 5 hours making an edit? (-200, CHEATER!!)
... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 8 hours making an edit? (-1400, CHEATER!!!)
... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 24 hours making an edit? (-222222, CHEATER!!!!!)
...or do you argue that the above question is unfair because the link is dead? (15)
Do you use Wikimedia-related
IRC channels? (8 for each you frequent)
Have you ever signed a real e-mail, forum post, or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (10)
more than 50 times? (50)
... always? (180)
And the recipient wasn't irritated? (15)
... because they're Wikipedians also? (10)
Do you instinctively search for the "history" of a webpage to see recent changes? (10)
Have you actually written a
Greasemonkey script that transliterates those four successive tildes to assure to have a proper signature at least when mailing from your web based mail-service? (25)
Or do you sign your posts by hand, integrating your Wikipedia signature into the message? (10)
Were you angry that the forum or email did not support wiki syntax? (25)
Or even compiled your own version of
Firefox to do so? (36)
Are you opposed to Britannica and all other encyclopedias because Wikipedia is better? (8)
Are you in support of Britannica? (-10, TRAITOR!)
... but you think Wikipedia is better? (15)
Has your touch-typing improved due to Wikipedia? (5)
Has your typing rate at least doubled because of Wikipedia? (10)
Have you created a custom keyboard layout to make editing easier (such as to quickly type an
em dash)? (20)
Have you ever edited one of our
sister projects? (5 for each project)
Are you currently blocked on the project you vandalize? (-500)
Is that block indefinite? (-10000)
Are you an active contributor to that project? (10 for each project)
Are you an administrator on that project? (50 for each project)
Are you a bureaucrat on that project? (200 for each one)
Do you have accounts on at least 10 different wikis? (50)
Have you added
Leet spelling to articles, even if you are confused by it? (-1337, most of the world's population can't understand it)
Do you spend an inordinate amount of time trawling articles to ensure American spelling is only used in appropriate articles? (5)
Have you used Wikipedia so much that you've developed frequent headaches? (10)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a language that is not used in the country you live in? (10)
... in two or more? (20)
Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (12)
Have you ever submitted an assignment for work or school that cited Wikipedia? (6)
Despite being told not to use Wikipedia or not to use encyclopedias? (12)
Did it cite an article that you had edited? (10)
Did you make the edit after getting the assignment? (10)
... created? (25)
... more than 10 articles? (40)
And did the teacher give you a bad grade, because he/she is biased against Wikipedia? (10)
Do you think this unfair? (15)
Did you lobby the school administrators to change this? (20)
Did it successfully change? (100, and a pat on the back from several other students)
or do you use your school computer time to play games instead of research? (-30)
... even if most games are blocked? (-100)
... do you hack the school's censorship network to bypass the block and play games? (-200)
or is Wikipedia blocked? (10)
do you hang a huge banner with a Wikipedia logo on the wall of your classroom to protest this? (200)
do you hack into the censorship system to use Wikipedia? (100)
Or did he/she give you a good grade due to the quality of your content (50)
Have you ever used any of your non-Wikipedia work as a source in Wikipedia? (0 for vanity)
Was it a legitimate reliable source? (50)
Did that work cite the article in question? (0 for circular reference)
Did you invent a time machine to make the circular reference legit? (1000 plus a patent)
Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence)
do you become extremely excited when Wikipedia is mentioned on TV? (30)
Do you buy or borrow books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little about? (20)
Have you ever bought a CD, movie, video game, or other image or multimedia recording so you can write the article, scan the cover and upload it to Wikipedia? (10)
When you applied for community service, did you volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (15)
Have you ever thought about applying for community service to volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (20)
Have you tried to revert your actions, after you realized they were wrong, but found out it couldn't be reverted? (12)
Have you listed your work on Wikipedia on your curriculum vitae or résumé? (10)
Or will you do it when you apply for a job or university in the future? (8)
Did you put an edit summary on your résumé? (50)
Did you sign your résumé with ~~~~ at the end? (20)
Got turned down because of it? (30)
Got the job because of it? (45)
Because the job interviewer was a wikipedian himself? (50)
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)
Or do you think "They must be the type of people who vandalize Wikipedia"? (25)
Have you ever edited this test just to correct the grammar or put in a question with correct grammar? (35)
Have you ever recommended Wikipedia to any of your real family or friends? (4)
Did they join Wikipedia and contribute? (8 for each person)
Or do they vandalize abusively? (-20)
Did you revert their actions? (20)
Did they create an abusive system of sockpuppets? (-50)
Did you delete their vandal articles and/or block them? (40)
Do you argue that Wikipedia is your world? (5000 and a life)
Please round your score down to the nearest interval. Scores in red are negative, black is positive, green is zero. If you thought the red text signified broken links, and were about to attempt fixing them, add 100 to your score.
Score
Result
-∞ to -99,999
You are an extremely evil/abusive vandal/troll, a
wikiterrorist, a liar who calls him or her self "The Jimbo Wales", or you thought this test was a complete/total/utter waste of time.
A well-balanced attitude that may benefit by spending more time on Wikipedia.
1,500
You have normal experience with Wikipedia.
2,000
Congratulations, you are in the optimal range for editing with Wikipedia!
2,500
You are slightly overdoing yourself. Take a wikibreak for a few days.
3,000
You are addicted to Wikipedia.
3,500
You are highly addicted to Wikipedia. Please take a break.
4,000
You are heavily addicted to Wikipedia and are showing symptoms of Wikipediholism.
4,500
You are a Wikipediholic.
5,000
You are at the stage of advanced Wikipediholism. If you are not an Administrator, please become one now.
5,500
You are at the stage of severe Wikipediholism and may be having some symptoms of arthritis in both hands from editing Wikipedia. Please see a doctor.
6,000
A dialysis machine is ready to take out the overdose of wikipedihol from your body, please see a doctor immediately.
6,500
Warning, continuation of editing can cause some mental alterations. Please cease editing immediately.
7,000
The effects of Wikipediholism have begun manifesting into your brain. You are capable of making edits faster than a bot.
7,500
The effects of Wikipediholism are running through all your veins. Other users are mistaking you for a bot, trying to re-program you for other tasks. Watch yourself!
8,000
The effects of Wikipediholism have affected you spiritually. You incorporate Wikipedian standards... religiously.
9,000
Congratulations! You have somehow produced a wiki-like radiation field around you. Any unsuspecting people in range will instantly know about Wikipedia, granting them an immediate score of 250.
10,000
Oh my... You now reek from the effects of Wikipediholism. Anyone who comes near you will instantly feel the urge to run to the nearest computer and edit Wikipedia relentlessly, even if they haven't used it before. "Wiki-wiki wah wah!" is your slogan.
12,500
Please take the time from your busy edits to read the following, Don't forget: Breathing doesn't intrude on your ability to edit, so do so regularly to prevent fainting and reducing the amount of time you can spend on Wikipedia.
15,000
Only the world's best psychiatrist, physiologist and witch doctor combined can cure your Wikipediholism at this stage. Normally you would get off of Wikipedia and go find those people... Normally...
17,500
The effects of Wikipediholism at this stage cannot be cured. Please stop. If you continue to edit Wikipedia with such vigor, you will indirectly block others from editing.
30,000
A higher power has taken interest in your editing, and wishes to grant you an uncanny power to make all the edits you want to in the blink of the eye. You turn this down, claiming that it will make you redundant from making edits on Wikipedia.
50,000
You discover the cure for cancer, world peace and teleportation by making the right links through all of the edits that you have made. Unfortunately, this is original research, and you can't leave your computer to take the proper actions, so no one finds out about it.
500,000
You are the ultimate Wikipediholic! Congratulations! Now, get back to editing (What are you doing here? Work!)
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 an hour (1 hour and 30 minutes with the manual version) because there are more than 650 questions!
Depending on your browser, browsing away from the automated test page may cause you to lose all of your progress. But real Wikipediholics don't do that anyway. Come to think of it, actually they might, if they want to edit this article.
Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (6)
Do you feel guilty about editing Wikipedia too much? (40, plus maybe a
WikiBreak)
Have you been using (editing) Wikipedia for a day to a week? (4)
A week to a month? (5)
A month to four? (30)
Four months to a year? (78)
A year to two? (280)
Two years to four? (700)
More than four years? (1200)
More than 23 years, 193 days? (-3000, smartypants... literally...)
Do you have Wikipedia bookmarked? (4)
Did you just bookmark it for the points? (-150, desperate... but nice try.)
Is Wikipedia set as your home page? (15)
Is Wikipedia in your browser's search bar? (9)
Did a Wikipedia page end up in your "most visited pages" list? (10)
In the top rank? (50)
Was it your user page? (-10)
Was it a page in the Wikipedia, Template or Talk namespaces? (25)
Was it this page? (50)
Did you just refresh the page over and over again for those points? (-55, cheater)
Are you annoyed at having lost your check marks in the automated version because of having refreshed the page? (-100, sore loser)
Are ALL of your "most visited" slots Wikipedia pages? (100)
Did you just clear your history and then reload this page to do that? (-400, you should have learnt from 3 lines up)
Have you had Wikipedia open in more than one window/tab at a time? (4)
More than five? (11)
More than ten? (27)
More than thirty? (59)
More than fifty? (120, and problems....)
Have you used Wikipedia on more than one browser at a time? (16)
More than 5? (11)
Have you vandalized Wikipedia on one browser and then went on another browser to revert the edit? (-1000, YOU VANDAL, CHEATER, AND LIAR!!!!)
Have you ever made a sockpuppet of another account pretending to be them? (-2000, GET YOUR BUTT OUTTA HERE!!)
Have you ever made a sockpuppet and then keep warning them about unconstructive edits? (-99999999999999998888888888888888888888, YOU IDIOT!!!!!)
Have you ever used Wikipedia to further your work related projects. (10)
Where you use Wikipedia
Have you used Wikipedia from more than one computer in the past week? (5)
... more than five? (51)
... more than ten? (141)
... more than twenty? (331)
... did you edit Wikipedia on those computers? (10)
... all those computers? (200)
Have you edited Wikipedia from more than one operating system in the past week? (10)
Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (10)
Do you edit Wikipedia on a tablet computer? (35)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia from
the Moon? (-8000, LIAR!)
Did you really? (8000, plus an additional 4000 for each alien you convinced to join)
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)
Did you pick that restaurant because of the wireless connection? (5)
Have you ever paid for a wireless internet connection used to hit the wiki? (15)
In flight? (33)
Are you taking the test while in flight? (133)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (-100, LIAR! But, if you really did, -200 and a funeral service; Wikipedia doesn't need idiots like you!)
If you have any devices that run on
iPhone OS, do you own the Official Wikipedia app?(10)
Did you just buy an iPod Touch/
iPhone just to get the wiki app? (16 impressive)
While watching your favorite TV show? (20)
While watching TV, listening to music on the computer and two or more stereos and playing video games? (190 and an award for being a freakishly good multi-tasker)
While at a party or visiting a significant other, did you feel a need to check your watchlist? (20)
Did you ask somebody if you could use their computer to check Wikipedia? (40)
Did you leave the party/significant other so you could check it? (80)
Do you actually use Wikipedia at public computers, even if some pages advise you not to? (5)
Or do you uncheck the "Remember me" box when logging in? (15)
Do you usually uncheck that box anyway? (5)
Do you use Wikipedia when you are waiting for a flight? (20)
...when you should be on a flight? (50, you're a waster of money!)
Do you find yourself importing Wikipedia's reference, navigation, and infobox templates? (10)
Do you edit Wikipedia at work? (50, GET BACK TO WORK!!!)
Wait, do you mean that you edited from Earth, and that Earth is NOT your home planet? (10↑100, and welcome to Wikipedia, fellow sentient being! Jimmy Wales would like a word with you about creating new WP's for your species' culture(s). Be bold and create it/them!)
Mars? (60000000, wow! Any Martians?)
Jupiter? (-13500000000000, the radiation would have fried your laptop)
Saturn? (175000000000000000, please upload a picture of the rings NOW pleasepleaseplease)
Uranus? (600, not as bad as the others)
Neptune? (-7800000, liar again, you'd have been blown away)
Pluto? (-60000000000000, cheater, Pluto isn't a planet anymore!)
Do you argue that the above question is unfair as you didn't know that Pluto was demoted? (-100, and you call yourself a Wikipediholic)
Do you argue that it should be called 134340 Pluto? (134340)
Have you edited at your friends' house? (10)
At your BF/GF's House? (20)
At your parents' House? (10)
...because you live with your parents? (-40 for cheating the above question)
...but you think that the above question is unfair because you are still a minor? (40)
At your grandparent's house? (20)
When you use Wikipedia
Do you use the
shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3)
Have you gotten ideas about articles from your dreams? (10)
Have you edited from the previous evening until 1 o'clock in the morning (local time)? (50)
... until 4:00 AM? (120)
... until 7:00 AM? (250)
... until 10:00 AM? (400 and some sleeping pills)
Do you consume energizing drinks to keep you up? (5)
Do you hold Wikipedia nights, that is, nights when you intentionally go to bed late, after spending a certain number of hours editing Wikipedia? (20)
Do you get people to join you in such an event? (30)
Do you make it a party? (100)
... and continue in the morning, without any sleep, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (180)
Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (40)
Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other/parents/boss? (6)
Have you edited Wikipedia while engaging in
sexual intercourse? (2000, you're SICK!!)
... do you always do this? (30000, you have a case of wikiphilia)
while doing any other activity? (2000, plus 100 for each other activity. You get admission into mental hospital and a good multi-tasking award)
...always? (30000, plus 200 for each other activity. You get admission into mental hospital and a good multi-tasking award)
Have you edited Wikipedia while eating? (10)
... do you do this more than half the time? (20)
... always? (60)
Have you edited a Wikipedia article while listening to its
spoken format? (50)
Did you create that version of the spoken format? (250)
...while listening to a completely unrelated article? (100)
Did this make you accidentally enter irrelevant information into the article you are editing? (-120)
Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (10)
More than three? (20)
Are you breaking a rule now? (12)
Did you steal a computer just so you could use Wikipedia? (1000, and a prison sentence)
Have you ever used Wikipedia for a research project and found yourself sidetracked to other articles that interest you? (9)
Have you taken a
WikiBreak and you were "successful"? (-20)
... or did you come back immediately during your Wikibreak? (20)
... but pretended it still counted because you only checked your watchlist and did not edit? (-5)
... and made notes of what you would edit when you returned? (50)
... did you manage to stay away for over a month? (-50)
... completely? (-200 - Never hurts to check the watchlist for the worst of changes)
... or do you not know what a Wikibreak is? (-1; you don't want to)
... or is it impossible for you to take a Wikibreak? (100)
... or do you feel horrified when you see a Wikibreak template? (1 and a {{WikiCookie}})
Have you ever used the Javascript Wikibreak Enforcer, because you knew you wouldn't be able to stay away otherwise? (50)
Did you panic as soon as you hit the save key after setting it? (25)
or did you relax and not worry about it? (100, Good for you!)
Did you sneak back in using a doppelganger account to disable it? (-200, and Your keyboard gets hidden :)
Did you turn off Javascript to stop it working? (-500, That's naughty!!!)
Did you alter your system time so it wouldn't kick in? (-1000 - Now that's plain out of order! :O )
Have you ever attempted to leave Wikipedia for good? (-300, mean)
Did you fail? (45)
Have you reached your 50% of your previous number of edits per month? (-50, but it's probably for the best)
100%? (50)
200%? (500, and check to make sure your partner isn't packing their things)
300%? (5000, and check to make sure your partner isn't packing your things)
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, have more faith in the servers)
Have you not spoken/interacted with any family members for 1 month due to editing Wikipedia? (40)
2 months? (70)
3 months? (100)
6 months? (300)
You can't remember when due to editing Wikipedia (125)
Have you ever pulled your car up outside of a restaurant with wireless so that you could "borrow" their Internet for a quick peek at Wikipedia? (70)
... do you do this every day? (200)
When writing something for school or work, do you often start trying to add internal links (or other Wiki formatting code) to it? (50)
Copying and pasting? (-20, naughty shortcut)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia during a thunderstorm? (100, very risky though)
Were you ever struck by lightning while editing Wikipedia? (-500, LIAR!)
Were you really? (1000, you're dedicated to the cause)
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? (11)
are you upset because that one wasn't? (12)
Did you edit this test while taking it? (10)
...by increasing the points so you could get a higher score than you otherwise would have? (-100, cheat)
Did you vandalize this test while taking it? (-1000)
Did you follow a link on this test... (20)
and then edit it... (50)
enough to be a featured article? (2000)
Have you ever been in an edit conflict? (5)
... more than 25? (50)
... more than 100? (125)
... too many to count? (200)
... with yourself? (150)
... more than three times? (1000, woah.)
Do you look at the newspaper everyday at the recent deaths to see if a notable
living person has died, so you can put {{recentdeath}} and take off the BLP tag on the talk page? (10)
Have your edits caused major controversy? (-1)
Have these edits been vandalism? (-250)
Have you ever browsed through an article's page history just to see different versions of the page? (10)
Just to see who was the first person to start the article? (15)
Have your ever typed a taboo word on Wikipedia? (-20 FOR EVERY TABOO WORD YOU TYPED AND -30 FOR EVERY TABOO WORD YOU'LL TYPE IN THE FUTURE, YOU MOTHERF***ING @?!$≠≈§ W***E!!!)
... Or you typed it because it helped an article? (10 but it still doesn't change the fact that you're a MOTHERF***ING @?!$≠≈§ W***E!)
Special pages
Do you click on
Random article at least once a day (just because you're bored)? (4)
Do you check your watchlist more than ten times a day? (10)
More than 25 times a day? (20)
Is your watchlist your homepage? (20)
... do you check your watchlist more than any other page on the Internet? (100)
... more than 100 x more often than you check your email inbox? (120)
Do you not know what a watchlist is? (-10, and find out)
Do you have more than 30 items in your watchlist? (5)
... more than 100? (30)
... more than 500? (120)
... more than 2,000? (400)
... more than 5,000?! (901)
... more than 10,000?!?!?! (1802, you may need to remove some items from your watchlist.)
... do you look through your entire watchlist for any vandalism since the last time you checked it? (30)
... do you use popups for this purpose? (20)
... do popups freeze your computer sometimes? (30)
... do you close the window, go back to Wikipedia, and log back onto your watchlist everytime this happens? (50)
Have you had to change your watchlist edit threshold? (10)
To more than 1000 edits? (200)
Is this page on your watchlist? (34)
Did you just add it to increase your score? (-38)
Have you used more than 20 different special pages? (20)
Images
Have you ever uploaded a picture or photograph to Wikipedia? (11)
More than 1? (22)
More than 10? (75)
More than 50? (175)
Did you include the appropriate usage templates? (11)
Did you release all your self-created images into the public domain? (10)
Did you release all your self-created images under a
Creative Commons license? (20)
Did you upload copyrighted images and use false template to keep the picture from being deleted? (-666, naughty, naughty)
Did you upload an image and claim appropriate fair use and appropriately explained it? (31)
Have you put a fair use image in userspace? (-50)
Or do you not care one bit about fair use and don't know what it is? (-200)
Have you uploaded a picture you created, e.g. designed in an image editing program/vector drawing tool, not taken with a camera? (10)
Have you ever traveled for longer than thirty minutes out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (20)
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? (10)
Have you purchased 2–5 items? (20)
Or 5–50 items? (100)
More than 50 items? (300)
Did you plagiarize the content you had purchased, rather than following Wikipedia standards for using sources? (-900)
Do you justify the plagiarism because at least the content's creator made some money off your purchase? (-1203)
Have you ever taken a photograph, or produced a drawing or diagram that became
featured? (150)
2-5 pictures? (201)
6-15 pictures? (350)
16+ pictures? (600)
Have you ever gone to view a picture on Wikipedia and it caused a browser glitch? (1)
Caused your browser to freeze or crash? (10)
Caused your entire computer to freeze or crash? (100)
...and then you rebooted and went back to the picture that caused it? (1000)
... because you think that reverting vandalism and other quality edits are more important than your user page? (19)
Do you have a user subpage? (7)
2-5? (17)
6-10? (27)
11-20? (37)
21-35? (47)
36-50? (71)
More than 50? (97)
Do you use your user subpages to prepare a template? (15)
... to prepare an article? (25)
... an entire group of articles? (74)
... to improve or create a WikiProject? (75)
... more than 3? (200)
... has it existed for at least 6 months? (30)
... is it still active? (90)
Have you ever edited another user's user page (not vandalize)? (3)
Have you vandalized that user's page? (-125)
... do you have a complex network of sockpuppets to vandalise people's userpages? (-10000, and a ban)
... and told them, even though it's easy enough to find out already? (2, for bravery)
Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first)
Did you archive your talk page after 10 comments or fewer? (-50; -20 for cheating the above question, and -30 more for being too much of a neat freak to be a Wikipediholic)
Do you have a total of more than 100 posts on your talkpage? (5)
... more than 1000? (80)
Does your user page/subpage have userboxes? (1)
... more than 5? (25)
... more than 10? (45)
... more than 50? (175)
... more than 100? (275)
... more than 300? (485)
...a ton? (789)
...you have no idea due to the great number of them? (1000)
... way too many to count? (10000, you seem to love userboxes...)
Have you ever created a userbox? (10)
... more than 5? (50)
... more than 10? (150)
... more than 50? (300)
Have you ever seen a userbox you created on someone else's user page/subpage? (30)
... more than one on the same page/subpage? (100)
Have you gotten an award for having such a great userpage? (50)
... have you helped to design others' pages? (100)
Vandalism
Do you vandalize while under an IP? (-500000)
Do you vandalize while logged in? (-20000)
... on a non-primary account? (-5000... you think you're so smart, well
you're not...)
... only on your own user page, vandal boxes/pages, the sandbox, and
WP:EUI? (-20)
... do you place pornography on your userpage? (-50000,
pervert)
... on others' userpages/talkpages? (-5000000000000000000000, sicko)
Did you try to vandalize, but the
Abuse Filter stopped you? (-10000, Now don't hack to disable it...)
Have you never ever vandalized Wikipedia? (25)
Have you ever been blocked, and the block was not lifted until it expired? (-10)
Have you ever created a custom userspace template used to warn vandals? (50)
Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25)
Have you ever had a disgruntled vandal create a personal attack article named after you or your username that was speedily deleted as a personal attack? (30)
... has a person you know in real life vandalised your page or created a now-deleted article about you? (20)
... more than 10 times? (100)
Has a vandal ever vandalized your user page or user talk page? (5 points for each time)
Have you ever been impersonated by a vandal, troll, or abusive sockpuppet? (10)
Have you ever visited a Wikipedia-vandal in real life? (-10)
Did you yell at him? (20)
Did he/she kill you? (-2000000, LIAR!!!)
Was he/she still a vandal afterwards? (-5, try again)
Did he/she correct his vandalism afterwards all by himself, said sorry and promised never to do it again? (120 per vandal, thank you)
Did he/she do it again anyway? (-100)
Are you a rollbacker? (30)
You prefer to do it the old-fashioned way because it's more fun? (40)
Did you write a 500-page essay about why Wikipedia vandals should be arrested? (2000)
...did you just start writing one to get the points? (-750, good effort though)
Have you also written this as a Wikipedia article, but then it was deleted which you're really angry about? (-1000, you liar; if you really did, it would say "You are re-creating a page that was deleted" at "Why Wikipedia vandals should be arrested" or at "Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia vandals should be arrested".)
Have you actually created such a Wikipedia article, but it was deleted and you think the deletion log must be faulty? (500)
Are you going to try and fix this problem yourself? (300)
Are you also going to badger an administrator into bringing it back onto Wikipedia, or to at the very least upload it to
Deletionpedia[1]? (250)
Or are you an administrator and will do this yourself? (280)
If you're not, are you going to beg an administrator to make you one so you can do it yourself? (400)
Or do you own a bot and are going to force it to upload your article to Deletionpedia? (-200 for cruelty to bots)
If you don't, are you going to steal someone else's for the purpose? (-2000 and a prison sentence, for both theft and cruelty to bots - you're almost being as bad as the vandals you think should be arrested, botnapper)
Have you installed an Anti-Vandal tool? (25)
Are you still perplexed by Willy on Wheels? (5)
Did you actually find
this article? (50, and a congratulations on the detective work)
You're lying again aren't you? (-100, and set fire to your pants)
Do you already know those languages, and still wrote a bot in them? (20)
Do you now feel heavily prejudiced against, because you prefer to use the .NET languages, Java, C++, or another language? (30)
Do you want to run a bot? (5)
Have you ever suggested a job for a bot? (5)
Was it adopted? (20, and our congratulations!)
Have you ever knowingly run a bot without approval? (-50)
Are you a bot? (1000 to your creator for inventing a bot that can take tests)
... Or has anybody ever called you a bot? (500)
... because you are counting the bot's edits as your own? (-2000)
Do you have more edits than even some of the fairly active bots? (5000)
Do you think you're a bot? (5, and some hours at the psychologist)
Do you make so many edits that you feel like a bot? (50, and a pat on the back)
Does this constant bot feeling make you feel important knowing that some idiot is going to have do it eventually? (10, we feel for you)
Does that feeling keep you from screaming in frustration because you do feel like a bot and now you know why they have bots for the boring things? (25, and a good stress ball)
Are you aware of what syntax such as {{{2|foo}}} does in a template? (40)
Do you know what {{fullurl:Wikipedia|action=raw}}, {{ucfirst:{{padright:wikipedia|10|!}}}}, {{#ifexist:{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}||{{db-talk}}}}, and {{msgnw:Template:Disambig}} will produce? (30 for each one)
Have you written a helpful monobook script? (200)
Do you have two or more of these scripts in your own personal monobook? (30)
Have you ever used
api.php to find information about Wikipedia pages? (120)
Have you used
Wget to find information about Wikipedia pages? (-150, they removed it in the robots.txt!)
Did you write a script, and then analyzed the results? (50)
... and tell people experimenting in articles to use the sandbox instead? (10)
Do you understand what wfMsgWeirdKey( $wgRequest->getVal( 'msg' ) ) means? (100; don't worry if not, it doesn't really matter)
How Wikipedia has affected you
Physical behavior
Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (15)
Are you not eating because you are too busy taking this test? (15 and a feast that'll fill ten full-grown men for a month)
Are you never at the bathroom because you are too busy on Wikipedia? (5 that explains why you smell like
cow manure).
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? (10)
Did you become so engaged on Wikipedia you forgot to go back to bed? (30)
Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (50)
Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5)
... do you have sexual fantasies about other Wikipedians? (-10000, ew?!?)
... have you experimented with them? (-99999999999999999999998, UM, EWW!)
More than 50 times? (20)
...everyday? (300)
Have you woken up at night to realize you're at your computer editing Wikipedia? (80)
Have you woken up early in order to edit Wikipedia? (10, here kindly mention your local time)
Before 7 am? (20)
Before 5 am? (50)
Before 2 am? (150)
Before 11 pm? (2000, GO TO BED!!!)
Did you try but fail miserably, since you're not a morning person? (5, at least you tried)
Do you not care about your dental health because you are too into Wikipedia? (50)
Do you not visit the dentist, ever, because you are too busy editing Wikipedia? (100, go have a
Wikibreak now, and don't breathe over me!)
Do you neglect using the shower because your always on Wikipedia? (101 and some soap, because your odor is making my nose bleed!)
Do you experience clinical depression, withdrawal, or some other symptoms (albeit minor) when you are unable to use Wikipedia for the time of 7 days? (5)
5 days? (10)
3 days? (30)
a day? (80)
6 hours? (120)
When you are forced off the wiki for 24 hours, and you are in the process of making a major edit or checking your watchlist, or reading a page, do you experience extreme depression? (20)
for 6 hours? (50)
for an hour? (100)
for any amount of time, regardless of its length? (200)
instantly? (1250, get a doctor now)
Do you weep for half an hour or more? (100)
Do you freak out when the power goes out? (20)
... or do you "kill kittens" while on Wikipedia? (-100)
Have you ever been injured/sick and checked the cure for your injury/sickness on Wikipedia? (40)
More than once? (80)
More than ten times? (120)
More than 30 times? (280)
When facing endeavors in real life, do you think to yourself that "if other Wikipedians have done it, so can I", check the article, and do it as if it were for Wikipedia? (100)
... when you're depressed, do you edit Wikipedia to escape? (20)
... does editing make you high? (100)
Have you used Wikipedia to memorise more than 20 digits of an irrational number such as pi? (10)
... more than 100 digits? (100)
to memorise a word longer than 40 letters? (5)
... longer than 80 letters? (20)
... longer than 120 letters? (50)
Do you sometimes give "edit summaries" for your real-life actions? (20)
Do you ever tell your friends about Wikipedia? (100 and good job :D)
Since registering on Wikipedia have you often ran naked around the house singing
Traveling Wilburys songs? (-100; go find your pants)
Have you gone legally blind because of editing Wikipedia too much? (1000)
...did you start editing just so you could answer "yes" to this question? (-400, it's not our fault)
...did you really start editing right now and gone blind? (2000)
Social life
Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
Do you have a
Wikipedia T-shirt (or another Wikipedia product)? (905 because you have to give us money for it)
Did you like giving us money? (3000)
More than one? (70)
Do you at least want one? (30)
Has someone left you because of Wikipedia? (30)
Is something you have thought was important, such as a social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (50)
... have almost all of your friends and acquaintances complained you edit Wikipedia too much? (100)
Do you judge people you know in real life partly or fully on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (10)
Do you think quality of contributions to Wikipedia is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (45 and a crash course in dating)
Do you think the last two questions are unfair because you are too busy editing Wikipedia to have any friends in real life? (500)
...or because they promoted discrimination? (500, plus a peace prize)
Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are productive or useful, unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching sports? (10)
Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (2)
Have you ever met another Wikipedian in real life? (20)
Is one of your friends a Wikipedian? (10)
Have you ever attended a Wikipedia-Meeting in real life? (50)
Do you live with another Wikipedian? (40)
Are you in a relationship (boyfriend/girlfriend) with another Wikipedian? (30)
With a Wikipedia vandal/troll? (-100)
A banned user? (-500)
An administrator? (80)
Did you recruit them to Wikipedia by telling them how amazing it is? (50)
Have you chosen to edit Wikipedia instead of being intimate with your partner? (25, and professional help)
Has your partner expressed concern that you are cheating on them with the wiki? (30)
Did you take a language course just to edit Wikipedia in more languages, or to translate Wikipedia articles in other languages to English? (125)
Have you beaten someone up because they tried to prevent you from editing? (5)
Was the person an administrator? (-50)
Was the person close to you? (5)
Was he/she a friend of yours? (10)
Was he/she your spouse? (-30, a big boo to you)
Do you have more friends on Wikipedia than in real life? (80)
Do you get angry when others call Wikipedia worthless and say it's for geeks? (20)
...or do you not even care anymore and embrace your geekness? (40, Nice pocket protector)
Do you get upset when people call Wikipedia "Just an Encyclopedia" (5)
Have you encouraged people with recognized mental disorders or addictions to use WP, claiming its "therapeutic"?(50)
Have you offered to help such people with their WP article on themselves, claiming its "therapeutic"?(100)
Have you attempted to present a paper on the therapeutic effects of Wikipedia to a peer reviewed journal or conference?(200)
Is your Ph.D. thesis on the therapeutic effects of Wikipedia, despite your having recognized problematic behaviors related to (your) editing of Wikipedia?(1000, and revocation of license to practice psychotherapy in your state)
Computing habits
Do you have a Wikipedia keyword or search plugin for your browser? (2)
Have you ever spent more than 15 minutes making one edit? (5)
... more than 30 minutes? (10)
... more than an hour? (25)
... more than 2 hours? (75)
... more than 3 hours? (120)
... more than 5 hours? (300)
... more than 8 hours? (1200, learn to make up your mind.)
... more than 24 hours? (123456, Really. it takes that long to make 1 single edit?)
... did you get logged off? (30)
... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 5 hours making an edit? (-200, CHEATER!!)
... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 8 hours making an edit? (-1400, CHEATER!!!)
... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 24 hours making an edit? (-222222, CHEATER!!!!!)
...or do you argue that the above question is unfair because the link is dead? (15)
Do you use Wikimedia-related
IRC channels? (8 for each you frequent)
Have you ever signed a real e-mail, forum post, or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (10)
more than 50 times? (50)
... always? (180)
And the recipient wasn't irritated? (15)
... because they're Wikipedians also? (10)
Do you instinctively search for the "history" of a webpage to see recent changes? (10)
Have you actually written a
Greasemonkey script that transliterates those four successive tildes to assure to have a proper signature at least when mailing from your web based mail-service? (25)
Or do you sign your posts by hand, integrating your Wikipedia signature into the message? (10)
Were you angry that the forum or email did not support wiki syntax? (25)
Or even compiled your own version of
Firefox to do so? (36)
Are you opposed to Britannica and all other encyclopedias because Wikipedia is better? (8)
Are you in support of Britannica? (-10, TRAITOR!)
... but you think Wikipedia is better? (15)
Has your touch-typing improved due to Wikipedia? (5)
Has your typing rate at least doubled because of Wikipedia? (10)
Have you created a custom keyboard layout to make editing easier (such as to quickly type an
em dash)? (20)
Have you ever edited one of our
sister projects? (5 for each project)
Are you currently blocked on the project you vandalize? (-500)
Is that block indefinite? (-10000)
Are you an active contributor to that project? (10 for each project)
Are you an administrator on that project? (50 for each project)
Are you a bureaucrat on that project? (200 for each one)
Do you have accounts on at least 10 different wikis? (50)
Have you added
Leet spelling to articles, even if you are confused by it? (-1337, most of the world's population can't understand it)
Do you spend an inordinate amount of time trawling articles to ensure American spelling is only used in appropriate articles? (5)
Have you used Wikipedia so much that you've developed frequent headaches? (10)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a language that is not used in the country you live in? (10)
... in two or more? (20)
Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (12)
Have you ever submitted an assignment for work or school that cited Wikipedia? (6)
Despite being told not to use Wikipedia or not to use encyclopedias? (12)
Did it cite an article that you had edited? (10)
Did you make the edit after getting the assignment? (10)
... created? (25)
... more than 10 articles? (40)
And did the teacher give you a bad grade, because he/she is biased against Wikipedia? (10)
Do you think this unfair? (15)
Did you lobby the school administrators to change this? (20)
Did it successfully change? (100, and a pat on the back from several other students)
or do you use your school computer time to play games instead of research? (-30)
... even if most games are blocked? (-100)
... do you hack the school's censorship network to bypass the block and play games? (-200)
or is Wikipedia blocked? (10)
do you hang a huge banner with a Wikipedia logo on the wall of your classroom to protest this? (200)
do you hack into the censorship system to use Wikipedia? (100)
Or did he/she give you a good grade due to the quality of your content (50)
Have you ever used any of your non-Wikipedia work as a source in Wikipedia? (0 for vanity)
Was it a legitimate reliable source? (50)
Did that work cite the article in question? (0 for circular reference)
Did you invent a time machine to make the circular reference legit? (1000 plus a patent)
Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence)
do you become extremely excited when Wikipedia is mentioned on TV? (30)
Do you buy or borrow books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little about? (20)
Have you ever bought a CD, movie, video game, or other image or multimedia recording so you can write the article, scan the cover and upload it to Wikipedia? (10)
When you applied for community service, did you volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (15)
Have you ever thought about applying for community service to volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (20)
Have you tried to revert your actions, after you realized they were wrong, but found out it couldn't be reverted? (12)
Have you listed your work on Wikipedia on your curriculum vitae or résumé? (10)
Or will you do it when you apply for a job or university in the future? (8)
Did you put an edit summary on your résumé? (50)
Did you sign your résumé with ~~~~ at the end? (20)
Got turned down because of it? (30)
Got the job because of it? (45)
Because the job interviewer was a wikipedian himself? (50)
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)
Or do you think "They must be the type of people who vandalize Wikipedia"? (25)
Have you ever edited this test just to correct the grammar or put in a question with correct grammar? (35)
Have you ever recommended Wikipedia to any of your real family or friends? (4)
Did they join Wikipedia and contribute? (8 for each person)
Or do they vandalize abusively? (-20)
Did you revert their actions? (20)
Did they create an abusive system of sockpuppets? (-50)
Did you delete their vandal articles and/or block them? (40)
Do you argue that Wikipedia is your world? (5000 and a life)
Please round your score down to the nearest interval. Scores in red are negative, black is positive, green is zero. If you thought the red text signified broken links, and were about to attempt fixing them, add 100 to your score.
Score
Result
-∞ to -99,999
You are an extremely evil/abusive vandal/troll, a
wikiterrorist, a liar who calls him or her self "The Jimbo Wales", or you thought this test was a complete/total/utter waste of time.
A well-balanced attitude that may benefit by spending more time on Wikipedia.
1,500
You have normal experience with Wikipedia.
2,000
Congratulations, you are in the optimal range for editing with Wikipedia!
2,500
You are slightly overdoing yourself. Take a wikibreak for a few days.
3,000
You are addicted to Wikipedia.
3,500
You are highly addicted to Wikipedia. Please take a break.
4,000
You are heavily addicted to Wikipedia and are showing symptoms of Wikipediholism.
4,500
You are a Wikipediholic.
5,000
You are at the stage of advanced Wikipediholism. If you are not an Administrator, please become one now.
5,500
You are at the stage of severe Wikipediholism and may be having some symptoms of arthritis in both hands from editing Wikipedia. Please see a doctor.
6,000
A dialysis machine is ready to take out the overdose of wikipedihol from your body, please see a doctor immediately.
6,500
Warning, continuation of editing can cause some mental alterations. Please cease editing immediately.
7,000
The effects of Wikipediholism have begun manifesting into your brain. You are capable of making edits faster than a bot.
7,500
The effects of Wikipediholism are running through all your veins. Other users are mistaking you for a bot, trying to re-program you for other tasks. Watch yourself!
8,000
The effects of Wikipediholism have affected you spiritually. You incorporate Wikipedian standards... religiously.
9,000
Congratulations! You have somehow produced a wiki-like radiation field around you. Any unsuspecting people in range will instantly know about Wikipedia, granting them an immediate score of 250.
10,000
Oh my... You now reek from the effects of Wikipediholism. Anyone who comes near you will instantly feel the urge to run to the nearest computer and edit Wikipedia relentlessly, even if they haven't used it before. "Wiki-wiki wah wah!" is your slogan.
12,500
Please take the time from your busy edits to read the following, Don't forget: Breathing doesn't intrude on your ability to edit, so do so regularly to prevent fainting and reducing the amount of time you can spend on Wikipedia.
15,000
Only the world's best psychiatrist, physiologist and witch doctor combined can cure your Wikipediholism at this stage. Normally you would get off of Wikipedia and go find those people... Normally...
17,500
The effects of Wikipediholism at this stage cannot be cured. Please stop. If you continue to edit Wikipedia with such vigor, you will indirectly block others from editing.
30,000
A higher power has taken interest in your editing, and wishes to grant you an uncanny power to make all the edits you want to in the blink of the eye. You turn this down, claiming that it will make you redundant from making edits on Wikipedia.
50,000
You discover the cure for cancer, world peace and teleportation by making the right links through all of the edits that you have made. Unfortunately, this is original research, and you can't leave your computer to take the proper actions, so no one finds out about it.
500,000
You are the ultimate Wikipediholic! Congratulations! Now, get back to editing (What are you doing here? Work!)