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 hour and 30 minutes with the manual version) because there are more than 650 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. Come to think of it, actually they might, if they want to edit this article.

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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? (11)
Do you typically use Wikipedia for more than an hour a day? (40)
- ... more than two hours? (50)
- ... more than three hours? (60)
- ... more than four hours? (80)
- ... more than six hours? (150)
- ... more than eight hours? (275)
- ... more than twelve hours? (400)
- ... more than eighteen hours? (600)
- ... 24 hours a day? (-1000, you liar!)
  - ... really 24 hours a day? (2000, and how long have you been on wikipedia?!)
- ... 27 hours a day (-1000, idiot, only 24 hours in a day!)
Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (30)
- ... 70% to 80%? (40)
- ... 80% to 95%? (90)
- ... 95%? (100)
- ... All of your time? (-200 you liar!! Oh, come on you at least check your e-mail once in a while and what about your job...?)
- ... less than 10%? (-10, and you're trying to pass yourself off as a wikipediholic?!?!)
- ... 0%, except for taking this test? (-2000; What the heck are you doing here?!?!)
Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's bandwidth? (12)
- Do you think you use more than 80 kB of Wikipedia's bandwidth a day? (40)
- ... 180 kB? (60)
- ... 280 kB? (80)
- ... 1080 kB? (200)
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, 310 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)
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)
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!!)

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)
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!)
Have you ever edited Wikipedia on a non-computer device, such as a Wii, PS3, PSP, DS or mobile phone? (50 for each)
- 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!!!)
Have you edited Wikipedia on a SmartBoard? (90)
Have you edited from your phone? (25)
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)
- 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)
      - Has such behavior made you nocturnal? (150)
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, get therapy)
- ... 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 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)
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)
- 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)

What you do on Wikipedia

Editing

Have you started new articles? (3)
- ... 5-24 articles? (6)
- ... 25-99 articles? (30)
- ... more than 100 articles? (300)
- ... more than 500 articles? (1000, insane dude.)
- ... exactly 6,912,832 articles? (-10000, LIAR!)
  - ...Really? (15000, REALLY insane.)
Do you make redirect pages? (1)
- Have you made more than 10? (11)
  - ... more than 100? (111)
  - ... more than 1000? (191)
  - ... more than 1000000? (-2000, yeah right!)
- ... and use the proper redirect templates to indicate their type? (10)
Have you made more than 1,000 edits on Wikipedia? (30)
- ... more than 4,000? (150)
- ... more than 10,000? (350)
- ... more than 25,000? (900)
- ... exactly 1,253,618,711? (-10000, FAIL)
Have you made more than 1,000 edits in a single calendar month? (200)
- ... more than 2,000? (350)
- ... more than 4,000? (500)
- ... more than 8,000? (800, are you serious?!?)
- ... more than 10,000?? (-1000, pop go the servers)
Do you comment on articles or engage in discussions? (20)
Do you wander on Wikipedia looking for something to contribute to? (16)
Do you request that articles be created, improved, expanded, deleted, etc.? (5)
Do you actually do these yourself? (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? (750)
Have you requested a new software feature, or reported a bug, in the last few weeks? (2)
Do you try to put an edit summary on ALL of your edits? (3)
- Do you freak out when you realise you've forgotten your edit summary? (50)
- 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)
  - Do you try to put an edit summary on every single website, such as a blog, that you can edit, but realise there isn't a place to type it in? (50)
Have you ever moved a page? (5)
- ... more than 10? (11)
- ... more than 100? (50)
- ... more than 500? (100)
- ... you can't remember, due to having moved so many? (300)
Have you ever contributed significantly to an article in order to make it featured, and succeeded? (77)
- 2-4 articles? (130)
- 5-10 articles? (400)
- 11-19 articles? (999, and a barnstar)
- 20+ articles? (1500, and two more barnstars)
  - Did you create that/those article(s)? (50 per article)
Do you hate to do "serious" research on Wikipedia because it's more fun to edit it? (11)
Do you regularly participate in XFDs (articles, categories, redirects, templates, user categories, images, stub types, miscellaneous)? (50)
Do you regularly participate in deletion review? (70)
Do you belong to a WikiProject? (8)
- 2 or more? (16)
- 5 or more? (40)
- 10 or more? (85)
Have you ever created a WikiProject? (25)
- ... more than 3? (100)
- ... more than you have fingers? (250)
- ... do you have less than 1 finger? (-257 for cheating the above question)
- Has it existed for at least 6 months and is active? (30 per WikiProject)
Have you ever nominated an article for speedy deletion? (5)
- More than 10? (25)
- More than 100? (150)
  - Is it because you are a new page patroller? (50)
  - Is it because you created it as a test? (-30)
  - Have you memorized all of the CSD criteria? (75)
  - Or just a handful? (10)
If you're an administrator, have you ever uploaded a deleted article to Deletionpedia? (30)
- More than 10? (50)
- More than 50? (100)
- More than 100? (200)
  - Had you deleted any of those articles? (10 for each one)
  - Had you created any of those articles? (-20 for each one - as an administrator, you should be setting a good example)
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? (10)
- Or did you wikify it yourself? (21)
Have you ever de-orphaned an article? (5)
- More than 50? (75)
Have you ever proposed an article for deletion with the prod template? (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 supported a prod using the prod2 template? (10)
- More than 100? (123)
Have you ever participated in an WP:RFA? (5)
- More than 25? (50)
- Do you include reasons for your vote? (10)
  - Or do you just go with the flow and cause snowballs? (-5)
Have you ever been offered a nomination for adminship by another editor? (100)
- - By yourself? (-10)
  - Did you turn it down? (-5)
    - To focus on editing for real content? (50)
    - To avoid losing your job and/or significant other? (-100, but it was worth it)
Have you ever been the subject of an RfA? (50)
- - Did you accept to gain social standing? (20)
  - Did you accept to gain specific tools? (40)
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"? (-30)
  - Did that article you requested get protected because of the reason above? (1)
  - Or was it not protected because it wasn't a good reason to protect the page? (-10, good)
Do you edit articles in foreign languages? (100)
- Even if you don't understand them? (-20)
  - 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 won or given more than 10 barnstars and/or more than $50 from the boards? (100)
Have you ever requested a Peer review? (1)
- Have you ever reviewed a Peer review? (20)
  - 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)
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 you memorized all of the Criteria for speedy deletion and their numbers? (50)

Special pages

Do you click on Random article at least once a day (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? (100)
  - Has this happened several times? (200)
  - Several times a day? (1000)
  - So often you're starting to get annoyed? (5000)
  - So often you've lost faith in the number of articles on Wikipedia? (-10000, I find your lack of faith disturbing!)
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? (3)
- Is Recent changes your homepage? (5)
- Do you have it open and told your browser to refresh it every 5 seconds? (100)
  - do you check every edit in recent changes for possible vandalism? (300)
  - ... are you on the recent changes patrol? (180)
  - do you do the same with new pages? (100)
  - Do you not know what recent changes is? (-10, and find out)
Do you manage to get the same list of changes on Recent changes twice? (20)
- ... because of a database lockdown? (1)
Do you check your watchlist almost every day? (2)
- 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)
- ... 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)

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)
  - ... at least 25 times a day? (70)
    - ... have you edited it more than 100 times? (10)
    - ... more than 1000 times? (200)
  - ... never? (-5)
    - ... 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)
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)
Do you upload pornography onto your user page? (-200, pervert)

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)
Have you never ever vandalized Wikipedia? (25)
Have you ever been blocked, and the block was not lifted until it expired? (-10)
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!)
  - Do you think that the question above is unfair because by clicking on the links, you can't find out anything on what he did? (20)
Have you been banned or blocked indefinitely? (-1000)
- Because you've requested it? (1000)
- ... were you blocked unfairly, and later unblocked? (1000)
  - Because you couldn't sustain your wikibreak? (100)
Is your main goal in life to vandalize Wikipedia? (-500000000000)
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? (-1000, get a life)
Have you ever reverted vandalism? (3)
- ... more than 20? (5)
- ... more than 60 times? (30)
- ... more than 100 times? (90)
- ... more than 500 times? (350)
- ... more than 4000 times? (2500, and a life.)
- Are you on some sort of vandalism patrol? (25)
- Do you warn the vandals appropriately? (10)
Is your main goal on Wikipedia to revert vandalism? (1200, and maybe edit Wikipedia in some other way?)
- - ... have you warned more than 50 vandals? (50)
- Do you use hand-written text to warn vandals to make it more specific to the vandal? (30)
  - ... has this made you a vandal/troll's target? (40)
- Have you ever reported a vandal to WP:AIV? (5)
  - More than 50? (30)
- Do you use tools like Huggle, 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)
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 s/he 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)

Bots

Do you run a bot? (50 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? (20 for each)
- Did you properly request bot status before running it? (5)
Have you written a bot? (10 for each)
- does your bot have more than 100,000 edits? (500)
- Do other people use your bot software to run their own bots? (30)
- You're lying aren't you? (-100, get a book and start studying!)
Did you learn the Python programming language just to be able to write Wikipedia bots? (20)
- What about Perl? (20)
  - 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)
Do you know what ClueBot is? (5)
- Did you know without clicking the link? (2)
- Or did you cheat? (-10, and you call yourself a wikipediholic...)
- Do you race ClueBot to revert vandalism? (15)
  - Do you beat it? (5)
    - Every time? (7)
  - Or do you wish to beat it, but it's too fast for you? (3)
- Have you beaten ClueBot without the use of tools? (20)
- Did you write ClueBot? (400)

Technical stuff

Do you know how to make italic and bold text? (1)
- Do you use <b> and <i>? (-3, this is why we use wiki software)
  - How about <img>? (-5, upload that image first)
  - <a href ... >? (-10, are you attempting to spam?)
Can you use LaTeX syntax? (10)
- With ease? (60)
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)
  - 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? (20)
Are you cognizant of the default thumbnail image width for all users? What is it in pixels? (30)
- Are you aware of the recent errors resulting from the use of px in images? (10)
- Do you know where this thumb width value can be changed? (30)
Do you use the sandbox to test formatting? (2)
- ... 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)
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)
  - 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 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)
    - 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)? (50)
- 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)
- 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)
Do you promote Wikipedia in person or by mentioning it on Usenet, IRC, forums or message boards, web pages, mail signatures, etc.? (10)
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)

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)
  - ... 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!!)
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 Wikimedia Foundation? (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)
  - Or did you not find it because it was labeled change instead? (-10)
    - Because you switched back to Wikipedia without noticing? (20)
      - Or because it was another wiki? (15)
      - ... a blog? (-1)
        ... or do you argue that you haven't edited your blog in over a year because you're so busy editing Wikipedia? (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)
Have you ever looked for the edit button upon seeing red letters on a VCR/DVD player's display? (15)
Do you have the Wikipedia widget on your Dashboard, or on a Google desktop? (20)
- ...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)
- 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)
- poor posture? (15)
- ... are these headaches severe? (50)
- ... do you have one right now? (30)
- Does this image depress you? (20)

The rest of the world

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)

Wikipedia knowledge and opinion

Do you know who Jimbo Wales is? (15)
- If you don't, did you just look for his article? (5)
- ... do you argue that his name is really Jimmy "Jimbo" Donal Wales? (10)
- Has he ever talked to you on your user talk page? (6)
  - Or are you a Jimbo Wales, just not the Jimbo Wales? (25)
    - ... because you changed your legal name to that of your idol? (-100)
    - ... since you want to be like him someday? (110, Good luck)
    - ... or ARE you THE Jimbo Wales? (-200000, poser!)
      - ... really, are you? (500000!)
  - Or are you a Jumbo Whale because you never get any exercise because you are always on Wikipedia? (100)
Do you know where the Wikimedia Foundation is based? (10)
Do you know when Wikipedia was founded? (2)
Do you know who founded Wikipedia? (20)
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 outside of Wikipedia? (40)
- Did you lose because your information was incorrect or not from a verifiable source? (-40)
  - Did you go back and correct the article? (50)
  - ... do you realise this question makes no sense? (1)
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? (300)
- ... and written an article about that book? (30, but check WP:COI)
  - ... then had someone correct a slip you made in the article? (5)
- Did you call the book Main Page? (-60 for making disambiguation a mess)
- Are you really mad about the fact that you wrote an entire book about Wikipedia yet got only 300 points? (100)
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 deserve to be labeled a Wikipediholic just for taking the hour needed to take this test? (10)
- Did you edit the test? (50)
  - Solely for more points? (-300)
    - ... or because someone requested it? (30)
- Did you click on any wikilinks while taking this test? (1 each)
  - Did you improve any of those wikilinks? (5 each)
  - Did you vandalize any of those wikilinks? (-100 each)
  - Did you vandalize this test? (-10000)
- Do you know approximately how often a new user account is created? (5)
- Have you ever made up a name for Wikipedia users? (10)
  - a song? (20)
    - ... is this song stuck in your head and you have no idea where the tune came from? (40)
Is Wikipedia the best source of info you know? (10)
Do you support Wikipedia in all situations? (10)

Interpreting your score

Please round your score down to the nearest interval. Scores in red are negative, black is positive (with the exception of 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.
-10,000	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 actually possible even though some Wikipedians might disagree.
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. 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!)
1,000,000	Jimbo! We love you, man!
1,000,000,000,000,000	You liar! Go back where you belong!

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

v t e Wikipediholism
Identification	Signs of Wikipediholism Wikipediholism test legacy modern Wikipediholic userbox 1 Wikipediholic userbox 2
Analysis and symptoms	Who, why? Wikipedihol Wikipedia is an MMORPG Editcountitis Editsummarisis Articlecountitis Barnstaritis Adminitis Templatitis Watchlistitis Userboxitis Talk page stalking WikiProphecy
Fighting Wikipediholism	Recovering from Wikipediholism Wikipatch Wikipediholics in denial Clinic for Wikipediholics Confessed Wikipediholics Wikipediholic user warning templates Taking a Wikibreak
Wikipediholics listed by...	Number of edits page 2 Number of recent edits (inactive) Active editing streak Number of manual edits Article count page 2 Featured article nominations Good article nominations Thanks received User page watchers Bot edits