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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 619 questions!

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

  • 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

  1. Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a week? (2)
  2. Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a day? (20)
  3. Do you typically use Wikipedia for more than an hour a day? (41)
    • ... more than two hours? (60)
    • ... more than four hours? (100)
    • ... more than six hours? (151)
    • ... more than nine hours? (300)
    • ... more than twelve hours? (500)
    • ... more than eighteen hours? (1111)
    • ... 24 hours a day, and a lot of coffee? (2000)
  4. Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (10)
    • ... 70% to 80%? (21)
    • ... 80% to 95%? (45)
    • ... 95%? (90)
    • ... less than 10%? (-10... and you're trying to pass yourself of as a Wikipediholic!!!)
    • ... 0%, except for taking this test? (-500; What are you doing here?)
  5. Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's bandwidth? (7)
    • Do you think you use more than 80 kb of wikipedia's bandwith a day(about this much data)? (10)
  6. Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (5)
    • Do you feel guilty about editing Wikipedia too much? (100, plus maybe a WikiBreak)
  7. Have you been using (editing) Wikipedia for a day to a week? (3)
    • A week to a month? (5)
    • A month to two? (20)
    • Two months to four? (51)
    • Four months to nine? (200)
    • Nine months to a year? (300)
    • A year to two? (750)
    • Two years to three? (1260)
    • Three years to four? (3000)
    • Four years to five? (8000)
    • More than five years? (10000)
    • More than ten years? (-1000000, liar)
      • Only to vandalize? (-900, and a block)
  8. Do you have Wikipedia bookmarked? (3)
  9. Is Wikipedia set as your home page? (10)
  10. Is Wikipedia in your browser's search bar? (8)
  11. Have you had Wikipedia open in more than one window/tab at a time? (2)
    • More than five? (6)
    • More than ten? (10)
    • More than thirty? (30)
    • More than fifty? (50)
    • Enough to crash your browser? (80)
  12. 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

  1. Have you used Wikipedia from more than one computer in the past week? (5)
    • ... more than five? (51)
    • ... more than ten? (100)
    • ... more than twenty? (200)
    • ... did you edit Wikipedia on those computers? (21)
  2. Have you used Wikipedia from more than one operating system in the past week? (5)
  3. Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (10)
  4. Do you hook up to Wikipedia over a wireless Internet connection? (2)
  5. Have you ever paid for a wireless internet connection used to hit the wiki? (15)
    • In flight? (25)
      • Are you taking the test while in flight? (100)
      • Are you currently on Lufthansa flight 411D? (200)
        • ... are you on another number, but same plane because you forgot to get off, due to editing Wikipedia? (600, and you might need to take out that MasterCard)
    • 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)
    • Do you edit on a dial-up or DSL connection? (1000 and some new Internet service!)
  6. 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, if you want to damage your hardware also)
  7. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on a Wii? (50)
  8. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on a PSP? (50)
  9. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on a Nokia 770, N800, or N810? (50)
  10. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on an iPhone? (50)
  11. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS? (50)
  12. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on an Amazon Kindle? (50)
  13. Have you ever edited Wikipedia on a mobile phone? (75)
    • not using Opera Mini? (20)
  14. While watching your favorite TV show? (50)
  15. 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)
  16. Do you use wikipedia when you are waiting for a flight? (20)
    • ...when you should be on a flight? (- [1 + the cost of your ticket in $US])
      • ...or did you miss a flight with a wireless connection, just because you could not stand the amount of time off wikipedia? (+4000+ the cost of your ticket in $US)
        • ... was it was a transcontinental flight? (6000 + [cost of ticket in USD] x 2 )
  17. Do you like Wikipedia? (10)
    • Do you love it? (51)
      • Only because you can vandalize it? (-10000)
    • Do you not know what it is? (-100000)
  18. You edit your work's wiki? (20)
    • Your work's wiki uses MediaWiki? (30)
      • You installed and maintain your work's copy of MediaWiki? (200)
    • You follow WP:MoS on your work's wiki? (60)
      • You make sure everyone else follows WP:MoS too? (80)
    • You find yourself importing Wikipedia's reference, navigation, and infobox templates? (10)

When you use Wikipedia

  1. Do you use the shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3)
  2. Have you gotten ideas about articles from your dreams? (40)
  3. Have you edited until 1 o'clock in the morning? (here kindly mention your local time) (6)
    • ... until 4:00 AM? (15)
    • ... until 7:00 AM? (30)
    • ... until 10:00 AM? (60)
  4. 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)
      • 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)
  5. Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (75)
  6. Do you make edits while drunk or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes? (3)
  7. Have you not answered an e-mail or instant message on time because you were browsing Wikipedia? (5)
  8. Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other/parents/boss? (6)
  9. Do you edit Wikipedia while engaging in sexual intercourse? (5000; get therapy)
  10. Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (6)
    • More than three? (10)
      • Are you breaking a rule now? (12)
  11. Did you steal a computer just so you could use Wikipedia? (1000, and a prison sentence)
    • Or did you kill someone to use their computer for Wikipedia? (1000, and another prison sentence or a sentence to death; recommended not to do so)
      • Did you break out of jail just to use Wikipedia? (1000, and another prison sentence)
  12. Have you ever used Wikipedia for a research project and found yourself sidetracked to other articles that interest you? (6)
  13. 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)
  14. 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? (25)
      • ... and made notes of what you would edit when you returned? (50)
    • ... or do you not know what a Wikibreak is? (10, trust me, you don't want to...)
    • ... or do you feel horrified when you see a Wikibreak template? (1 and a {{WikiCookie}})
  15. Have you ever attempted to leave Wikipedia for good? (-300)
    • ...but failed miserably because you were so addicted to this site? (400)
  16. (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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. When writing something for school or work, do you often start trying to add internal links (or other Wiki formatting code) to it? (50)
    • Do you go back and manually remove all the [[ and ]] from it, and it doesn't lower your opinion of Wikipedia in any way? (25)
  20. When talking about websites and webpages, do you refer to them as articles? (10)

What you do on Wikipedia

Editing

  1. Did you edit a page before creating an account? (3)
    • ...because you didn't care about Privacy? (1)
      • ...Or because you couldn't stop yourself from correcting something? (20)
  2. Have you started new articles? (3)
    • ... 5-24 articles? (6)
    • ... 25-99 articles? (25)
    • ... more than 100 articles? (400)
  3. Do you make redirect pages? (1)
    • Have you made more than 10? (4)
    • ... 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)
  4. Have you ever edited one page so much you think it's your own page, even though you didn't create it? (-100)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
    • ... more than 10,000? (999)
  7. Do you comment on articles or engage in discussions? (20)
  8. Do you wander on Wikipedia looking for something to contribute to? (16)
  9. Do you request that articles be created, improved, expanded, deleted, etc.? (5)
  10. Do you actually do so? (20)
  11. 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)
  12. Have you requested a new software feature, or reported a bug, in the last few weeks? (2)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
    • When changing your preferences, do you tend to prepare an edit summary, only to find out there isn't a place to type it in? (15)
  15. Have you ever moved a page? (5)
    • ... more than 10? (11)
    • ... more than 100? (30)
      • ... so you could use its move log to say that you created it, even though you didn't? (-50)
    • To "ON WHEELS"? (-300)
      • Do you realize that there are in fact legitimate uses for pages "on wheels"? (2)
      • ... and do you want your points back that we stole because you moved it with a legitimate reason? (250)
  16. Do you have a text file filled with Wikipedia templates? (15)
    • To prepare an article offline? (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)
  17. Have you ever uploaded a picture or photograph to Wikipedia? (11)
    • 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? (11)
    • More than 10? (25)
    • More than 50? (75)
    • Did you include the appropriate usage templates? (11)
    • 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? (31)
      • Have you put a fair use image in userspace? (-50)
  18. Have you uploaded a picture you created, e.g. designed in an image editing program/vector drawing tool, not taken with a camera? (10)
  19. Have you ever traveled for longer than thirty minutes out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (20)
  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 US$10? (12)
    • ... with a value of more than US$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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. Do you hate to do "serious" research on Wikipedia because it's more fun to edit it? (11)
  24. Do you regularly participate in XFDs (articles, categories, redirects, templates, user categories, images, stub types, miscellaneous)? (50)
  25. Do you regularly participate in deletion review? (50)
  26. Do you belong to a WikiProject? (8)
    • 2 or more? (16)
    • 5 or more? (40)
    • 10 or more? (81)
  27. Have you ever created a WikiProject? (25)
    • ... more than 3? (100)
    • Has it existed for at least 6 months and is active? (50)
  28. 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)
      • Is it because you created it as a test? (-30)
      • Have you memorized all of the CSD criteria? (75)
      • Or just a handful? (10)
      • Or do you not know any of them? (-1)
  29. 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)
  30. Have you ever de-orphaned an article? (6)
    • More than 50? (50)
  31. 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)
  32. Have you ever contested a prod on an article you created? (5)
  33. Have you ever contested a prod on an article you had nothing to do with, but disagree with the prod? (10)
  34. Have you ever support a prod using the prod2 template? (10)
    • More than 100? (80)
  35. 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)
    • Are you planning to put in your own RFA? (10)
      • Are you going to put in your request as soon as you finish this test? (5)
      • Are you going to stop taking this test right now to put in your RFA? (15)
      • Are you putting in your request just because it's cool to be an admin/sysop and you want to show off to your friends? (-100 and a smack in the face.)
      • Are you putting in your request just because you want to misuse your powers and vandalize wikipedia's main page? (-10000 and 3 smacks in the face.)
  36. 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)
  37. 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)
  38. Have you edited in Portal:Current events? (10)
  39. 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)
  40. 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)
  41. Did you edit this test while taking it? (10, so did some random person who added this, everything but the "10" in this bracket)
    • ...solely to gain more points? (-50, cheater!)
    • Did you vandalize this test while taking it? (-50)
    • Did you follow a link on this test... (20)
      • and then edit it... (50)
        • enough to be a featured article? (500)
  42. Have you ever been in an edit conflict? (5)
    • ... more than 25? (30)
    • Have you even been in (a) database lockdown(s) while editing? (10)
    • With yourself? (10)
    • Do you indicate on discussions such as RfAs, RefDesks, RfFs, etc, that you've had an edit conflict? (5)
  43. 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? (45)
  44. You cannot type a single '[' any more, your fingers make it always double ('[[') (3)

Translations and interwiki

  1. Have you ever translated an article into another language? (100)
    • More than 1? (200)
    • More than 5? (400)
    • More than 20? (800)
    • More than 50? (1600)
  2. Have you ever translated a template, or something other than an article, into a foreign language? (80)
    • More than 1? (133)
    • More than 5? (600)
    • More than 20? (1400)
    • More than 50? (3000)
  3. Do you know how to add a foreign language interwiki link to a page? (10)
  4. Have you ever followed a foreign language interwiki link to figure out what that word was in another language? (15)
  5. 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.)
  6. 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)
  7. Have you found out that {{babel}} works in almost any language? (25)
  8. Have you translated an article into a nonreal language? (100)
    • Elvish? (5000)
    • Klingon? (10000, get a life!)
  9. Have you ever edited the Wikipediholic 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

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
    • Is Recent changes your homepage? (20)
    • Do you have it open and told your browser to refresh it every 5 seconds? (12)
  3. Do you manage to get the same list of changes on Recent changes twice? (2)
    • ... because of a database lockdown? (1)
  4. Do you check your watchlist almost every day? (1)
    • Do you check your watchlist more than ten times a day? (10)
    • Is your watchlist your homepage? (20)
    • Do you not know what a watchlist is? (-10, and find out)
  5. 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)
  6. Have you had to change your watchlist edit threshold? (10)
    • To more than 1000 edits? (20)
  7. Is this page on your watchlist? (4)
    • Did you just add it to increase your score? (-20)

Who you are

  1. Do you have a user account on Wikipedia? (2)
  2. Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (5)
  3. Did you start editing before turning 17? (5)
    • ... 15? (25)
    • ... 13? (40)
    • ... 11? (100)
    • ... 9? (300)
    • ... 7? (500)
    • ... 2? (1000, and the title of Child prodigy)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7)
  7. Have you ever requested to be a sysop? (15)
    • Just for more points on this test? (-20)
  8. Have you been nominated by someone else for adminship? (15)
  9. 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)
    • Do you hate sysops because they block you whenever you vandalise Wikipedia? (-150)
  10. Have you ever requested to be a bureaucrat? (20)
  11. Are you a bureaucrat? (75)
    • Did you become a bureaucrat before turning 25? (25)
      • ... 20? (40)
      • ... 18? (100)
  12. Are you a steward? (100)
  13. Did you translate system messages of Wikipedia software? (20)
  14. Did you program part of it? (40)
  15. Have you argued with your sock puppets on talk pages? (7)
    • ... and lost? (3)
  16. 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)
  17. Are you a member of Harmonious editing club? (10)
  18. 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)
  19. Were you previously a member of Concordia? (Even though it's gone now?) (9)
  20. Were you previously a member of the Wikipedia Youth Foundation even if it's gone now? (9)
  21. Are you a member of the Kindness Campaign? (9)
  22. Are you a member of Adopt-a-User? (12)
  23. Do you help out on the reference desk on a regular basis? (15)
  24. 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)
  25. Are you on the Mediation Committee? (50)
  26. Are you on the Arbitration Committee? (100 — why are you reading this? Go arbitrate!)
  27. Do you have an award (including a barnstar)? (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)
  28. Have you ever given someone a barnstar? (5)
    • More than one? (1 point for each one)
  29. Have you given yourself a barnstar? (-15)
    • ... for the purpose of raising your score? (-20)
  30. Have you ever had an editor review? (6)
    • Did you listen to the suggestions made by others? (10)
      • Or dismiss it as nonsense (unless it really was nonsense)? (-20)

User pages

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. Have you ever edited another user's user page (not vandalize)? (2)
    • Have you vandalized that user's page? (-30)
      • ... and told them, even though it's easy enough to find out already? (2, for bravery)
  4. Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first)
  5. Does your user page/subpage have userboxes? (1)
    • ... more than 5? (5)
    • ... more than 10? (10)
    • ... more than 50? (50)
    • ... more than 100? (100)
    • ... more than 200? (200)
    • ... more than 300? (300)
    • ...a ton? (500)
    • ...you have no idea due to the great number of them? (1000)
  6. 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)

Vandalism

  1. Do you vandalize while under an IP? (-500000)
  2. Do you vandalize while logged in? (-2000000)
    • ... on a non-primary account? (-5000... you think you're so smart)
    • ... only on your own user page or vandal boxes/pages? (10000)
  3. Have you never never vandalized Wikipedia? (100)
    • Do you know what Willy on Wheels did? (50)
      • Did you check out the link so you could answer yes to the last question to get more points? (-75, cheater!)
  4. Have you been banned? (-1000)
    • Because you've requested it? (1000)
      • Because you couldn't sustain your wikibreak? (50)
  5. Is your main goal in life to vandalize Wikipedia? (-100000)
  6. Have you ever made nonsensical edits to pages that no one will ever see anyway just because you can? (-10)
    • Have you ever reverted those changes out of guilt? (3)
      • ... and then reverted them back (and maybe back again) to increase your edit count? (-600)
  7. 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)
      • If these tools don't run on your current operating system, do you use them on VMWare, Virtual PC and the like? (50)
        • If you are using Windows under virtualization, do you use a pirated version? (-100, and the cops are going to knock on your door soon)
          • Only because it is for a good cause! (0, it's still no excuse!)
  8. Have you ever created a custom userspace template used to warn vandals? (50)
  9. Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. Has a vandal ever vandalized your user page or user talk page? (5 points for each time)
  13. Have you ever visited a wikipedia-vandal in real life? (10)
    • Did you yell at him? (10)
    • Did you hit him with a blunt object? (15)
      • ..one time? (5)
      • ..twice? (8)
      • ..three times or more? (10)
    • Was he still a vandal afterwards? (-5, try again)
    • Did he correct his vandalism afterwards all by himself, said sorry and promised never to do it again? (120 , thank you)
  14. Have you installed an Anti-Vandal tool?(25)
    • 2 or more?(50)
    • 3 or more?(100)
      • And hated them?(-500)
        • ..a little?(450)
        • ..definite but not a lot?(300)
        • ..hated them so much you never wanted to have anything to do with them afterwards?(-10000 and an anti-vandal barnstar taken)

Bots

  1. 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)
  2. Have you written a bot? (10 for each)
    • Do other people use your bot software to run their own bots? (20)
  3. 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)
  4. Do you want to run a bot? (5)
  5. Have you ever suggested a job for a bot? (5)
    • Was it adopted? (20, and our congratulations!)
  6. Have you ever knowingly run a bot without approval? (-5)
  7. Are you a bot? (1000 to your creator for inventing a bot that can take tests)

Technical stuff

  1. Do you know how to make italic and bold text? (1)
  2. Can you use LaTeX syntax with ease? (50)
  3. Are you aware of what syntax such as {{{2|foo}}} does in a template? (30)
  4. 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)
  5. Have you ever used api.php or query.php to find information about Wikipedia pages? (150)
  6. 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)
  7. Do you know the difference between substitution and transclusion? (25)
  8. 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

  1. Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (12)
  2. 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)
  3. Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (3)
    • Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5)
  4. Have you woken up at night to realize you're at your computer editing Wikipedia? (80)
    • ...more than once? (40 more for each occurence)
  5. 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, at least you tried)
  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)
  7. 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)

Social life

  1. Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia T-shirt (or another Wikipedia product)? (10)
    • More than one? (20)
    • Do you at least want one? (50)
  3. Has someone left you because of Wikipedia? (100)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are productive or useful - unlike wasting time playing games or watching football? (10)
  7. Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (2)
  8. Have you ever met another Wikipedian in real life? (20)
  9. Do you live with another Wikipedian? (40)
  10. Are you in a relationship (boyfriend/girlfriend) with another Wikipedian? (20)
    • Did you recruit them to Wikipedia by telling them how amazing it is? (50)
  11. Have you chosen to edit Wikipedia instead of being intimate with your partner? (15)
  12. Has your partner expressed concern that you are cheating on them with the wiki? (30)
  13. Do you promote Wikipedia in person or by mentioning it on Usenet, IRC, forums or message boards, web pages, mail signatures, etc.? (10)
  14. 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)
  15. Did you take a language course just to edit Wikipedia in more languages, or to translate Wikipedia articles in other languages to English? (125)
  16. Have you beaten someone up because they tried to block you from editing? (5)
    • Was the person an administrator (-50)
    • Was the person close to you? (3)
      • Was he/she a friend of yours? (5)
      • Was he/she your spouse? (15, a big boo to you)
      • Was he/she your parents? (25 for being unfilial, and a greater boo)

Computing habits

  1. Do you have a Wikipedia keyword or search plugin for your browser? (2)
  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)
      • ... Did you leave your computer so you could come back and say you spent 5 hours making an edit? (-2500, CHEATER!!)
  3. Do you subscribe to a Wikipedia mailing list? (15 for each one)
    • Do you actually read the posts to that mailing list? (2)
  4. Have you donated money to Wikimedia Foundation? (40)
    • Have you wanted to, but been too young or poor to do so? (20, it's the thought that counts.)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. Do you know what WP:AYAWH stands for? (10)
  8. Are you often wary of red links on websites other than Wikipedia, before realizing that red is the normal link color? (2)
  9. Do you have the Wikipedia widget on your Dashboard, or on a Google desktop? (20)
  10. Do you do use Wikimedia-related IRC channels? (8 for each you frequent)
  11. Have you ever signed a real e-mail or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (10)
    • And the recipient wasn't irritated? (15)
    • 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 even compiled your own version of Firefox to do so? (30)
  12. 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)
  13. Has your touch-typing improved due to Wikipedia? (5)
  14. Have you created a custom keyboard layout to make editing easier (such as to quickly type an em dash)? (20)
  15. 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

  1. Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a language that is not used in the country you live in? (10)
    • ... in two or more? (20)
  2. Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (2)
    • Did you throw away that encyclopedia? (6)
    • Did you burn that encyclopedia? (50)
      • Did you accidentally burn a building down doing that? (-90)
        • Or was it not an accident? (-5000, and expect to be in handcuffs soon for arson)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence)
  6. Do you buy or borrow books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little about? (20)
  7. 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)
  8. When you applied for community service, did you volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (15)
  9. Have you tried to revert your actions, after you realised they were wrong, but found out it couldn't be reverted? (12)
  10. 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)
  11. Do you believe that nearly all of your success in your workplace or school comes from information gained on Wikipedia? (4)
  12. When you see vandalism in real life, do you think "These must be the type of people that vandalize Wikipedia"? (2)
  13. 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

  1. 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 10000000 points? (5)
  2. Do you know where the Wikimedia Foundation is based? (10)
  3. Do you know when Wikipedia was founded? (2)
  4. Do you know who founded wikipedia? (200) (-200 for the wrong answer)
    • Did you correct the score above because the date was incorrect? (20)
  5. Did you discover Wikipedia from Larry Sanger's message? (40)
    • Do you know what this refers to? (50)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. Do you consider Wikipedia to be the closest thing to a precursor for "the computer" in Star Trek? (5)
  9. Do you ever use Wikipedia to resolve a dispute? (41)
  10. Have you ever cheered out loud when you look at the updates on the Wikipedia Awareness Statistics? (5)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. Do you think you deserve to be labeled a Wikiholic just for taking the two hours needed 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 had a chip installed in your brain so you could edit Wikipedia articles ? (10000)
    • Have you considered committing suicide if your surgeon refused to do the above? (-9999, get help)
    • Do you consider yourself beyond help? (100 and a trip to the mental institution)


Meta

    • Are you at all depressed that your score is so low? (1000, recursively)

Interpreting your score

Please round your score down to the nearest interval. Scores in red are negative, black is positive. If you think the red text is a broken link and you attempt to fix it, add 100 to your score.

Score Result
∞ - 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.
100,000 You are a really evil vandal.
2,000 You are an evil vandal.
1,000 You are a vandal or you have no intention of helping Wikipedia.
0 This score is not actually possible, seeing as how you have used Wikipedia at least once. Congratulations!
1 You are a newbie or you have never edited.
500 You are an IP address user or a sock puppet with few edits.
750 You are an average new contributor.
1,000 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.
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 dilation machine is ready to take out the overdose of wikipediholic from your body, please see a doctor immediately.
6,500 Warning, continuation of editing can cause some mental alterations. Please cease from 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 peoples 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 can cure your Wikipediholism at this range. Normally you would get off of Wikipedia and go and find that person... Normally...
17,500 The effects of Wikipediholism at this range cannot be cured. Please stop. If you continue to edit Wikipedia with such vigor, you will indirectly block others from editing.
500,000 You are a total maniac. This makes you the ultimate Wikipediholic! Congratulations! Now, get back to editing (What are you doing here? Work!)
1,000,000 You are Jimbo Wales! We love you man!

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

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