Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test

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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 hours and 30 minutes with the manual version) because there are more than 537 questions!

Don't want it to take that long? Then use the automated version!

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.
The lowest score possible from checking boxes is -1001010148 at last count, which was counted by Lyoko is Cool.
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.

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The test

How often 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)
Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (10)
- ... 70% to 80%? (20)
- ... 80% to 95%? (45)
- ... 95%? (90)
- ... less than 10%? (-10... and you call yourself a Wikipediholic)
- ... 0%, except for taking this test? (-500; What are you doing here?)
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)
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 four? (25)
- Four months to nine? (60)
- 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)
- More than ten years? (-10000 liar)
  - Only to vandalize? (-900, and a block)
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 thirty? (30)
- More than fifty? (50)
- Enough to crash your browser? (50)
- Enough to crash your computer? (50)
Have you used Wikipedia on more than one browser at a time, to see if a graphical layout looked fine for all viewers? (15)

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)
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)
Are you on Lufthansa flight 411D, which has wireless access to the Internet during flight? (25)
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)
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)
  - Or was that party/significant other just lame? (-25)
    - Or was the party/significant other lame because there was no Wikipedia involved? (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)

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)
Do you consume energizing drinks to keep you up? (4)
- ...or do you stay up late to edit without the help of drinks? (4)
- 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)
    - ... and continue in the morning, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (80)
      - Has such behavior made you nocturnal? (150)
  - 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)
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...)
Have you ever attempted to leave Wikipedia for good? (-300)
- ...but failed miserably because you were so addicted to this site? (400)
(for people who attend school, college or have a job) Are you so addicted to this site that you forgot to (or don't want to) do your homework or skip school, or go to work? (140 + 15 * the number of days skipped)
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)
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)

What you do on Wikipedia

Editing

Did you edit a page before creating an account? (2)
Have you started new articles? (3)
- ... 6–10 articles? (5)
- ... 26–50 articles? (25)
- ... more than 100 articles? (400)
Do you make redirect pages? (1)
- Have you made more than 10? (3)
- ... more than 100? (10)
- ... more than 1000? (80)
- ... and use the proper redirect templates to indicate their type? (10)
- ... do you do this more than 50% of the time? (30)
- ... more than 75% of the time? (60)
- ... always? (100)
Have you ever edited one page so much you think it's your own page, even though you didn't create it? (-100)
Have you made more than 1,000 edits on Wikipedia? (15)
- ... more than 4,000? (50)
- ... more than 10,000? (150)
- ... more than 25,000? (300)
- ... more than 300,000?!? (3000)
  - ... because you're a bot? (-5000)
Have you made more than 1,000 edits in a single calendar month? (50)
- ... more than 2,000? (100)
- ... more than 4,000? (200)
- ... more than 7,000? (350)
Do you comment on articles or engage in discussions? (20)
Do you wander on Wikipedia looking for something to contribute to? (15)
Do you request that articles be created, improved, expanded, deleted, etc.? (5)
Do you actually do so? (20)
Have you, in your impatience for others to edit an article, brought an article all the way from a sub-stub 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 wished the Wikipediholism RFE was fulfilled? (5)
- Do you wish that it were not fulfilled, because that would interfere with your editing? (5)
Have you ever wanted to edit someone else's, or your own, edit summaries? (10)
- Are you really, really happy that Wikipedia finally allows you to preview your edit summaries? (4)
- Do you try to put an edit summary on ALL of your edits? (3)
  - Have you enabled "prompt me when leaving a blank summary"in your preferences? (15)
Have you ever moved a page? (5)
- ... more than 10? (10)
- ... more than 100? (30)
- To 'ON WHEELS'? (-300)
  - Do you realize that there are in fact legitimate uses for pages "on wheels"? (2)
Do you have a text file filled with Wikipedia templates? (15)
- Do you not have to because you have all your templates on userpage subpages? (5)
- Do you just know most of the user warning templates? (30)
Have you ever uploaded a picture or photograph to Wikipedia? (10)
- Was it a picture with a free license? (-5, upload it to Commons under the same name and tag the Wikipedia version with {{subst:ncd}})
- More than 1? (10)
- More than 10? (25)
- More than 50? (75)
- 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)
  - 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? (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? (3)
- ... with a value of more than USD 10? (12)
- ... with a value of more than USD 50? (50)
- 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 taken a photograph, or produced a drawing or diagram that became featured? (30)
- 2-5 pictures? (50)
- 6-15 pictures? (200)
- 16+ pictures? (500)
Have you ever contributed significantly to an article in order to make it featured, and succeeded? (50)
- 2-4 articles? (100)
- 5-10 articles? (200)
- 11-19 articles? (500)
- 20+ articles? (1000)
  - Did you create that/those article(s)? (25 per article)
Do you hate to do "serious" research on Wikipedia because it's more fun to edit it? (10)
Do you regularly participate in XFDs (articles, categories, redirects, templates, user categories, images, stub types, miscellaneous)? (50)
Do you regularly participate in deletion review? (50)
Do you belong to a WikiProject? (8)
- 2 or more? (16)
- 5 or more? (40)
- 10 or more? (80)
Have you ever created a WikiProject? (25)
- ... more than 3? (100)
- Has it existed for at least 6 months and is active? (50)
Have you ever nominated an article for speedy deletion? (5)
- More than 10? (20)
- More than 100? (80)
  - Is it because you are a new page patroller? (20)
  - Have you memorized all of the CSD criteria? (75)
  - Or just a handful? (10)
  - Or do you not know any of them? (-1)
When you see an article that needs to be wikified, do you place the {{wikify}} tag on it, and hope somebody else will get around to it? (5)
- Did you appropriately date it? (5)
- Or did you wikify it yourself? (25)
Have you ever de-orphaned an article? (5)
- More than 50? (50)
Have you ever proposed an article for deletion with the prod template? (5)
- More than 100? (80)
- Were any of the prods contested? (1)
  - Did you then list the article for AFD? (10)
Have you ever contested a prod on an article you created? (5)
Have you ever contested a prod on an article you had nothing to do with, but disagree with the prod? (10)
Have you ever support a prod using the prod2 template? (10)
- More than 100? (80)
Have you ever participated in an WP:RFA? (5)
- More than 25? (30)
- Do you include reasons for your vote? (10)
  - Or do you just go with the flow and cause snowballs? (-5)
Have you ever requested a page to be semiprotected in response to heavy vandalism? (8)
- Or do you request page protection because you don't want anybody to edit "your article"? (-15)
  - Did that article you requested get protected because of the reason above? (1)
  - Or was it unprotected because isn't a good reason to protect the page? (-1)
Do you edit articles in foreign languages? (100)
- Even if you don't understand them? (50 for trying)
  - Do you use babel fish for your edit summaries? (50)
Have you edited in Portal:Current events? (10)
Have you gone to Wikipedia:Reward board or Wikipedia:Bounty board? (5)
- Completed a request on one of the boards? (10)
  - Both of the boards? (20)
Have you ever requested a Peer review? (1)
- Have you ever reviewed a Peer review? (20)
- 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)
Did you edit this test while taking it? (10, so did I)
- Did you follow a link on this test... (20)
  - and then edit it... (50)
    - enough to be a featured article? (500)

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)
- More than 10? (500 + a job as a translator)
- 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)? (4)
- Is the wikipedia "Random article" your home page? (25)
- Have you ever clicked "Random article" and gotten an article you have already edited? (5)
  - Has this happened several times? (12)
  - Several times a day? (70)
  - So often you're starting to get annoyed? (500)
Do you check "Recent changes" almost every day? (2)
- Do you check Recent changes more than ten times a day? (7)
- Do you have Recent changes bookmarked? (1)
- Do you have it open and told your browser to refresh it every 5 seconds (12)
Do you manage to get the same list of changes on Recent changes twice? (2)
- ... because of a database lockdown? (1)
Do you check your watchlist almost every day? (1)
- Do you check your watchlist more than ten times a day? (9)
Do you have more than 30 items in your watchlist? (2)
- ... more than 100? (8)
- ... more than 500? (35)
- ... more than 1,500? (80)
- ... more than 5,000? (150)
- ... more than 10,000?! (250)
Is this page on your watchlist? (4)

Who you are

Do you have a user account on Wikipedia? (2)
Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (5)
Did you start editing before turning 17? (5)
- ... 15? (25)
- ... 13? (40)
- ... 11? (100)
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)
Do you sometimes forget to think twice before you say something to real people, but often re-check what you have typed in a dozen times before posting your comment to a talk page? (5)
Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7)
Have you ever requested to be a sysop? (15)
Have you been nominated by someone else for adminship? (15)
Are you a sysop? (75)
- Did you become a sysop before turning 25? (15)
  - ... 20? (20)
  - ... 16? (50)
- Do you actually have sysop powers on more than one Wikipedia? (20 points more for each one)
Have you ever requested to be a bureaucrat? (20)
Are you a bureaucrat? (75)
- Did you become a bureaucrat before turning 25? (25)
  - ... 20? (40)
  - ... 18? (100)
Are you a steward? (100)
Did you translate system messages of Wikipedia software? (20)
Did you program part of it? (40)
Have you argued with your sock puppets on talk pages? (7)
- ... and lost? (3)
Have you ever been the first to update a biography article with the date of the person's death after hearing its announcement on the news? (40)
- ..removed the {{blp}} template from the talk page? (20)
- ... have you cursed other Wikipedians because, no matter how fast you are, the article is always already updated with the breaking news? (10)
  - ... out loud on the IRC channel? (10)
  - Is it the same with the scores of sports events like the FIFA World Cup? (5)
Are you a member of Harmonious editing club? (10)
Were you a member of Esperanza? (10)
- Even though it doesn't exist anymore do you still consider yourself a proud Esperanzian? (6)
  - Or do you think that Esperanza was a failure? (6, just to maintain NPOV)
Were you previously a member of Concordia? (Even though it's gone now?) (9)
Were you previously a member of the Wikipedia Youth Foundation even if it's gone now? (9)
Are you a member of the Kindness Campaign? (9)
Are you a member of Adopt-a-User? (12)
Do you help out on the reference desk on a regular basis? (15)
Are you on the Mediation Cabal? (10)
- Did you immediately think of answering TINC for the last question? (5)
  - ... or were you outraged that someone is revealing the cabal? (5)
Are you on the Mediation Committee? (50)
Are you on the Arbitration Committee? (100 — why are you reading this? Go arbitrate!)
Do you have an award (including a barnstars)? (10)
- Do you have 2-4? (15)
- Do you have 5-9? (25)
- Do you have 10-19? (40)
- Do you have 20-49? (60)
- Do you have more than 50? (100)
Have you ever given someone a barnstar? (5)
- More than one? (1 point for each one)
Have you given yourself a barnstar? (-15)
- ... for the purpose of raising your score? (-20)
Have you ever had an editor review? (6)
- Did you listen to the suggestions made by others? (10)
  - Or dismiss it as nonsense? (-20)

User pages

Do you have your own User page? (2)
- Do you edit it at least once a month? (3)
  - ... at least once a week? (5)
  - ... at least once a day? (8)
  - ... never? (-10)
    - ... because you think that reverting vandalism and other quality edits is more important than your user page? (18)
Do you have a user subpage? (3)
- 2-5? (10)
- 6-10? (20)
- 11-20? (30)
- 21-35? (40)
- 36-50? (50)
- More than 50? (65)
- Do you use your user subpages to prepare a template? (15)
- ... to prepare an article? (25)
  - ... an entire group of articles? (100)
- ... to improve a WikiProject? (10)
Have you ever edited another user's user page (not vandalize)? (2)
- Have you vandalized that user's page? (-15)
Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first)
Does your user page/subpage have userboxes? (1)
- ... more than 5? (5)
- ... more than 10? (10)
- ... more than 50? (15)
- ... more than 100? (20)
Have you ever seen a userbox you created on someone else's user page/subpage? (5)
- ... more than one on the same page/subpage? (10)
Do you have a userbox on your user page? (5)
- ...more than 5? (10)
- ...more than 10? (15)
- ...more than 20? (15)
- ...more than 50? (20)
- ...more than 100? (40)
- ...a ton? (45)
- ...you have no idea due to the great number of them? (55)

Vandalism

Do you vandalize while under an IP? (-50)
Do you vandalize while logged in? (-200)
- ... on a non-primary account? (-5... you think you're so smart)
- ... only on your own user page or vandal boxes/pages? (10)
Have you never vandalized Wikipedia? (100)
- Do you know what Willy on Wheels did? (5)
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)
Have you ever reverted vandalism? (5)
- ... more than twice? (10)
- ... more than 10 times? (50)
- ... more than 50 times? (150, and a barnstar)
- ... more than 100 times? (200)
- ... more than 300 times? (400 + 2 barnstars)
- ... more than 700 times? (600)
- ... more than 1000 times (800 + 3 barnstars)
- Are you on some sort of vandalism patrol? (25)
- Do you warn the vandals appropriately? (10)
- Have you ever reported a vandal to WP:AIV? (5)
  - More than 50? (30)
- Do you use tools like VandalProof, MWT, or Twinkle to do so? (40)
Have you ever created a custom userspace template used to warn vandals? (50)
Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25)
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 had a disgruntled vandal create an Personal attack article named after you or your username that was speedily deleted as a personal attack? (30)
Has a vandal ever vandalized your user page or user talk page? (5 points for each time)

Bots

Do you run a bot? (30 per bot)
- Do you think that last question is unfair because your bot does the work of many? (30)
- Are/Is your bot(s) running right now? (10 for each)
- Did you properly request bot status before running it? (5)
Have you written a bot? (10 for each)
- Do other people use your bot software to run their own bots? (20)
Did you learn the Python programming language just to be able to write Wikipedia bots? (20)
- What about Perl? (20)
  - 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 or C++? (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? (-5)

Technical stuff

Do you know how to make italic and bold text? (1)
Can you use LaTeX syntax with ease? (50)
Are you aware of what syntax such as {{{2|foo}}} does in a template? (30)
Do you know what {{fullurl:Wikipedia|action=raw}}, {{ucfirst:{{padright:wikipedia|10|!}}}}, {{#ifexist:{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}||{{db-talk}}}}, and {{msgnw:Template:Disambig}} will produce? (40 for each one)
Have you ever used api.php or query.php to find information about Wikipedia pages? (150)
Have you used Wget to find information about Wikipedia pages? (150)
- Did you write a script that either, and then analyzed the results? (50)
  - Was this script a bot? (50)
  - Was this a user script, written in JavaScript? (50)
    - Did you have so many queries per minute, that there was a server error? (-30)
Do you know the difference between substitution and transclusion? (25)
Are you cognizant of the default thumbnail image width for all users? What is it in pixels? (30)
- Do you know where can this thumb width value be changed? (30)

How Wikipedia has affected you

Physical behavior

Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (12)
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)
- Did you become so engaged on Wikipedia you forgot to go back to bed? (10)
Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (3)
- Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (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)
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 but fail miserably, since you're not "a morning person"? (-6)
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 experience withdrawal, clinical depression, uncontrollable weeping, or some other affliction (however minor) 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)
        6 hours? (128)

Social life

Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
Do you have a Wikipedia T-shirt (or another Wikipedia product)? (10)
- More than one? (20)
- Do you at least want one? (50)
Is something you have thought was important, such as a 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 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? (15 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)
Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are "productive" or "useful" - unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching football? (10)
Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (2)
Have you ever met another Wikipedian in "real life"? (20)
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 you chosen to edit Wikipedia instead of being "intimate" with your partner? (15)
Do you promote Wikipedia in person or by mentioning it on Usenet, IRC, forums or message boards, web pages, mail signatures, etc.? (10)
Do you use terms like "dab", "sp", "revert", "blanking", "content", "NPOV", "vanity page", "minor edit", "vandal", "troll", "developer", "double brackets", "diff", "hist", "watchlist", "wikitext", or other terms in their Wikipedia sense in unrelated contexts? (5)
Did you take a language course just to edit Wikipedia in more languages, or to translate Wikipedia articles in other languages to English? (125)

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)
Do you subscribe to a Wikipedia mailing list? (15 for each one)
- Do you actually read the posts to that mailing list? (2)
Have you donated money to Wikipedia? (40)
- Have you wanted to, but been too young or poor to do so? (20, it's the thought that counts.)
Have you ever thought about editing a non-Wikipedia webpage? (4)
- Have you ever looked for the edit button? (7)
  - Did you actually find it? (10)
    - Because you switched back to Wikipedia without noticing? (20)
      - Or because it was another wiki? (15)
Do you save offline copies of long pages (i.e., WP:AN, WP:RFAR, WP:MAGIC) or the mailing list so you can read them later when you are offline? (5)
Are you often wary of red links on websites other than Wikipedia, before realizing that red is the normal link color? (2)
Do you have the Wikipedia widget on your Dashboard, or on a Google desktop? (20)
Do you do use Wikimedia-related IRC channels? (8 for each you frequent)
Have you ever signed a real e-mail or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (10)
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? (5)
Has your touch-typing improved due to Wikipedia? (5)
Have you ever edited one of our sister projects? (5 for each project)
- Are you a vandal on sister projects? (-1000)
  - 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)

The rest of the world

Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a country that you don't live in? (10)
- ... in two or more? (20)
Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (2)
- Did you throw away that encyclopedia? (6)
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)
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 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)
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? (8)
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 for each person)

Wikipedia knowledge and opinion

Do you know who Jimbo Wales is? (2)
- 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 a Jimbo Wales, just 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? (2)
- 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 think you diserve to be labled a Wikiholic just for taking the half an hour to take this test? (100)
- Do you know approximately how often a new user account is created? (5)
Have you ever made up a name for wikipedia users? (10)
Have you memorized all of the articles and their content on Wikipedia? (∞, and get a life)
Have you had a chip installed in your brain so you could edit Wikipedia articles ? (∞^∞)
Have you considered commiting suicide if your surgeon refused to do the above? (googol)

Interpreting your score

Score range in (red) are negative, black is positive. If you think it is a broken link and you attempt to fix it, add 100 to your score :)

Score	Result
(-∞) – (-100000)	You are an extremely evil/abusive vandal/troll, a wikiterrorist, or you thought this test was a complete/total/utter waste of time.
(-100000) – (-2000)	You are a really evil vandal.
(-2000) – (-1000)	You are an evil vandal.
(-1000) – 0	You are a vandal or you have no intention of helping Wikipedia.
0–500	You are a newbie or you have never edited.
500–750	You are an IP address user or a sock puppet with few edits.
750–1000	You are an average new contributor.
1000–1500	A well-balanced attitude that may benefit by spending more time on Wikipedia.
1500–1750	You have normal experience with Wikipedia.
1750–2000	This is the optimal, most productive range.
2000–2500	You are slightly overdoing yourself. Take a wikibreak for a few days.
2500–3000	You are addicted to Wikipedia.
3000–3250	Scores in this range are occasionally fatal.
3250–4000	You are really overdoing yourself.
4000–5000	You are editing too much! Get a real life!
5000–5500	You are at the stage of advanced Wikipediholism.
5500–6000	Go see a doctor NOW!
6000–6500	Seriously, you need a doctor.
6500–7000	You are in very serious trouble. It is very rare to turn away from Wikipedia at this range.
7000–7500	Your chances of turning away from Wikipedia are slim to none.
7500–8000	You need a month long wikibreak.
8000–9000	You really need to understand that you need help.
9000–10000	Seriously, you really need to listen to the advice given above this field.
10000–12500	Chance of turning away from Wikipedia: less than 0.001% – You need to find a psychiatrist now!
12500–15000	Very few psychiatrists can even start to cure people at this range.
15000–17500	Only the the world's best psychiatrist can cure you at this range.
17500–20000	Wikipediholism is practically impossible to cure at this range. No therapist can save you now.
20000–1000000	You are a total maniac. You will die while editing Wikipedia. You are the ultimate Wikipediholic. Congratulations! Now, get back to editing!
1000000–∞	You are Jimbo Wales.
∞–∞^∞	Please edit this page in your sleep only.

You can use the {{User Wikipediholic}} template to display your score on your user page. ({{User Wikipediholic|score|-}})

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Fighting Wikipediholism	Recovering from Wikipediholism Wikipatch Wikipediholics in denial Clinic for Wikipediholics Confessed Wikipediholics Wikipediholic user warning templates Taking a Wikibreak
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