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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.

Give yourself at least 15 to 20 minutes, because there are about 550 questions!

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

  • If you check off all the boxes, you will receive a very large negative score — no more than - -13629.474060480845 at last count (unless you check the 'I am Jimbo Wales' box, then 986370.5259395193). (Yes, this is true!)
  • 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? (0.5)
  2. Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a day ? (1)
  3. Do you have Wikipedia bookmarked? (3)
  4. Is Wikipedia set as your homepage? (5)
  5. Do you typically use Wikipedia for more than an hour a day? (1.5)
    • ... more than two hours? (2)
    • ... more than four hours? (4)
    • ... more than six hours? (6)
    • ... more than ten hours? (10)
    • ... more than twelve hours? (12)
  6. Have you used Wikipedia for a full twenty-four hour stretch? (25)
    • ... more than twenty-four? (25 plus 1 for each hour over 24 hours)
    • ... without breaks to eat? (50)
    • ... or drink? (75)
    • ... or to sleep? (100)
    • ... or to go to the toilet? (100)
      • ... because you edit Wikipedia on the toilet? (101)
      • ... because you wear a youth or adult diaper? (150)
  7. Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (10)
    • ... more than 70%? (20)
    • ... more than 80%? (30)
    • ... more than 90%? (40)
    • ... more than 95%? (50)
    • ... more than 99.9%? (59.88)
    • ... 100%? (100)
    • ... just slightly less than 100% solely to look up information to add to Wikipedia? (50)
    • ... less than 10%? (-10... and you call yourself a Wikipediholic)
    • ... less than 0.01%? (-100; you may leave now)
  8. Have you been using Wikipedia for so long you forgot today is your day off? (5)
  9. Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's bandwidth? (5)
  10. Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (5)

Where you use Wikipedia

  1. Have you used Wikipedia from more than one computer in the past 30 days? (10)
    • ... more than five? (25)
    • ... more than ten? (40)
  2. Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (1)
    • Did your laptop's fan go on by itself while you were at Wikipedia? (2)
    • Did your laptop melt (or show serious signs of melting) while you were editing Wikipedia? (100 bonus points, a new computer fan, and a wikibreak)
  3. Do you browse Wikipedia on a cell phone, PDA, PlayStation Portable (or any other mobile gadget) browser? (5)
    • Do you edit Wikipedia on that browser? (10)
    • Do you do anything other than Wikipedia on that browser? (-20)
  4. If you use dial-up, is your phone bill larger than before you discovered Wikipedia? (2)
    • Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia while paying long distance charges to connect to the Internet? (5)
  5. Do you hook up to Wikipedia over a wireless Internet connection? (2)
    • Do you edit Wikipedia articles while over such a connection? (4)
    • Is that connection in a restaurant? (6)
    • Are you on a date in this restaurant? (50)
    • Did you pick that restaurant because of that? (5)
    • Do you ever go to other restaurants? (-8)
    • Do you edit Wikipedia while waiting for your meal? (8)
      • ... during your meal? (20)
      • ... while eating? (25)
      • ... with one hand on the keyboard, and one on your food? (50)
      • ... with one foot on the food and two hands on the keyboard? (100)
      • ... with four limbs on the keyboard and your head in your food? (125, plus the dexterity award)
      • Did you do all of the above, then get annoyed because it was so difficult to edit Wikipedia properly, and therefore throw your meal out of the window? (150)
      • Do you stop eating to edit Wikipedia and then throw your meal away, because it is spoiled? (another 50 — you're a junkie)
  6. Are you on Lufthansa flight 411D, which recently added wireless access to the Internet during flight? (25)
    • Are you eating your meal on said flight while taking this test or writteing an article? (50)
    • Did you choose this flight over another because of the access to Wikipedia? (100 plus a point for every $10 more you paid for this flight than the one you would have taken)
  7. Have you ever edited Wikipedia while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (5)
  8. Do you actually have a home, or do you just live on Wikipedia? (100, and a spot on CNN tomorrow night)
    • Did you realize that you receive 100 points if you have just one or the other? (5)
    • Have you tried to get in touch with an admin to demand your spot on CNN tomorrow night? (1)
    • Have you taken this quiz so many times that you no longer want that spot on CNN tomorrow night? (10)
    • Are you disappointed that the last three follow-up questions were worth 85 points fewer than the original question? (0.235711131719)
      • Did you notice that the last three questions were only 84 points fewer than the original question? (1.4856)
  9. Do you work on Wikipedia in almost zero light because of an electrical power failure? (20)
    • Did you immediately just try to think of ways to get on Wikipedia with no electricity after you read the last question? (15)
    • Does it not matter because your home is off the grid? (50)

When you use Wikipedia

  1. Do you use the shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3)
  2. Do you edit articles in your dreams while sleeping? (17)
  3. Do you edit articles in your dreams while awake (daydreaming)? (20)
  4. Do you curse out loud upon waking and realizing that you have to make all those edits over again? (2 points more)
  5. Or are the edits actually still there...? (100 bonus points, plus the Randi prize)
  6. Have you edited before 6:30 in the morning? (6)
    • ... until 2:00? (1)
    • ... until 4:00? (2)
    • ... until 6:00? (4)
    • ... until 8:00 or later? (7)
      • Did you give yourself 14 points since it is always 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, or 8:00 somewhere? (3 points for cleverness :) )
        • ... or did you just assume it meant UTC? (1)
          • ... even though you are not in a UTC time zone yourself? (3)
  7. Do you edit Wikipedia at night (i.e. after midnight) consuming drinks to keep you up? (2)
    • 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? (10)
        • ... and continue in the morning, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (100)
          • Has such behavior made you nocturnal? (150)
      • Do you hold Wikipedia break nights, that is, nights when you intentionally try and tear yourself away from Wikipedia to go to bed early, for the sake of your health/career/relations with your significant other/etc? (15)
        • Do you still find yourself on past midnight, anyway? (20)
  8. Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (80)
  9. Do you make edits while drunk or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes? (1)
  10. Are you drunk right now? (100)
    • Do you want to protest that last question because you are under 21? (50)
      • ... or are you under 21 and drunk right now anyway? (-100; no points for lawbreakers)
        • ... did you realize how US-centric that question is? (17.76)
  11. Have you not answered an e-mail or instant message on time because you were browsing Wikipedia? (5)
  12. Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other? (5)
  13. Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (6)
  14. Have you ever used Wikipedia for a research project and found yourself sidetracked to other articles that interest you? (5)
  15. 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)
  16. Do you edit wikipedia on friday nights? (10)

What you do on Wikipedia

Editing

  1. Did you edit a page before creating an account? (1)
  2. Have you started new articles? (2)
    • ... 1 or 2 articles? (1)
    • ... 3–5 articles? (2.5)
    • ... 6–10 articles? (5)
    • ... 10–25 articles? (10)
    • ... 26–50 articles? (25)
    • ... 51–100 articles? (50)
    • ... more than 100 articles? (100)
  3. Do you make redirect pages? (1)
    • ... and use the proper redirect templates to indicate their type? (10)
  4. Have you made more than 1,000 edits on wikipedia? (20)
    • ... more than 2,000? (25)
    • ... more than 3,000? (30)
    • ... more than 4,000? (35)
    • ... more than 5,000? (40)
    • ... more than 7,500? (80)
    • ... more than 10,000? (200)
    • ... more than 25,000?!? (400)
    • Do you want to protest the above questions because you think they promote editcountitis? (50)
      • ... or because you have a smaller edit count, despite the fact that you've been here longer than the users with high edit counts? (100)
  5. Do you have an urge to edit this nonexistent article? (1)
    • Did you immediately try to edit the above nonexistent article? (10)
  6. Do you comment on articles or engage in discussions? (2)
  7. Do you wander on Wikipedia looking for something to contribute to? (5)
  8. Do you request that articles be created, improved, expanded, deleted, etc.? (1)
  9. Do you fulfill such requests? (2)
  10. Have you, in your impatience for others to edit an article, brought an article all the way from a substub or stub to featured article status? (10 and a barnstar)
  11. Have you requested a new software feature, or reported a bug, in the last few weeks? (2)
  12. Have you ever wished the Wikipediholism RFE was fulfilled? (5)
  13. Have you ever created a new article with over five internal links to articles that you have edited at some point or another? (2)
    • Were all these articles ones that you not only edited, but created? (2)
    • Did you read the last question and think it should have a score of –2 for creating walled gardens? (3)
  14. Have you ever wanted to edit someone else's edit summaries? (1)
    • Have you ever wanted to edit your own edit summaries? (2)
      • Have you ever wanted to preview your edit summaries? (4)
    • Do you try to put an edit summary on ALL of your edits? (3)
      • Do you get upset if you don't do so? (5)
    • Do you try to summarize edits on something outside Wikipedia? (7.5)
      • In real life?!? (10.3753)
  15. Do you have a text file filled with Wikipedia templates? (4)
    • Do you not have to because you have all your templates on userpage subpages? (5)
    • Do you just know all of the Wikipedia templates? (10)
  16. Have you ever travelled more than two miles (three kilometres) out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (2)
    • ... more than 10 miles (16 km)? (4)
    • ... more than 25 miles (40 km)? (10)
    • ... to another country? (75)
      • ... whose border is less than 25 miles (40 km) away? (10)
    • ... to another continent? (100)
      • ... to another century? (350, and a contract with Sony, department for Timemachines)

====Special pages====

  1. Do you click on "Random article" at least once a day (or just because you're bored)? (2)
    • When you click "Random article", do you, more often than not, find an article you have edited? (30)
      • ... written? (100)
      • ... and it is featured? (250)
    • Have you ever gotten the same random article twice in a row? (50)
      • ... three times in a row? (80, and add 25 more for each random page you have gotten in a row)
    • Have you ever got more than two articles in a row that are both about a person or people? (10)
      • Three? (20)
      • Four or more? (40)
    • Do you hit Alt-X (or its equivalent on your keyboard) more than any other shortcut key? (3)
      • ... do you do this often just because you get bored? (3 more, and the Boredom Award)
  2. Do you check "Recent changes" almost every day? (2)
    • Do you check Recent changes more than ten times a day? (5)
    • Do you have Recent changes bookmarked? (1)
    • Do you have Recent changes set as your start page? (11)
  3. Do you manage to get the same list of changes on Recent changes twice? (2)
    • ... or is it because you have two windows open at the same time? (5 plus the Master Nerd Prize)
  4. Do you check your watchlist almost every day? (1)
    • Do you check your watchlist more than ten times a day? (4)
    • Do you have your watchlist bookmarked (favorite)? (1)
    • Do you have your watchlist set as your start page (home)? (8)
  5. Did you just bookmark any of the above pages just so you could get the extra points? (7)
    • ... set any one of them as your home page? (15)
  6. Do you have more than 50 items in your watchlist? (1)
    • ... more than 100? (5)
    • ... more than 500? (10)
    • ... more than 1,000? (20)
    • ... more than 10,000? (49.1)
      • Were you upset that you didn't get 0.9 more points on the above question? (0.8)
  7. Is this page on your watchlist? (2)
    • Do you check daily to see if this test has changed? (50)
      • ... and retake the whole test if it has? (50)
  8. Have you memorized all of the keyboard shortcuts? (15)
    • ... or don't bother to because you don't use Monobook? (17)

Who you are

  1. Do you have a user account on Wikipedia? (1)
  2. Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (3)
  3. Did you edit before turning 18? (2.5)
    • ... 16? (12.5)
    • ... 13? (25)
    • ... 10? (50)
    • ... 4? (100)
  4. Are you under 18? (5)
    • ...13? (10)
    • ...10? (20)
    • ...7? (40)
    • ...4? (100)
  5. Are you upset about the above age questsions because you were over 18 when you first discovered Wikipedia and you feel it is agist? (10)
    • ...and did you discover Wikipedia from Larry Sanger's message? (40)
      • ...do you know what this refers to? (100)
  6. 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? (15)
    • ... or for some other reason, such as picking it up where you left it so many years ago? (2)
  7. Do you forget to think twice before you say something to real people, but re-check a hundred times what you have typed in before posting your comment in a talk page? (5)
  8. Do you have a Ph.D. that you use to contribute to Wikipedia? (30)
  9. Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7)
  10. Are you an ambassador for Wikipedia? (2)
  11. Are you an ambassador for more than one Wikipedia? (2 points more)
  12. Have you ever requested to be a sysop? (2)
  13. Are you a sysop? (2)
    • Did you become a sysop before turning 25? (12.5)
      • ... 20? (12.5)
      • ... 15? (50)
      • ... 11? (100)
      • ... before you were born?! (900)
    • Do you actually have sysop powers on more than one Wikipedia? (2 points more for each one)
  14. Have you ever requested to be a bureaucrat? (3)
  15. Are you a bureaucrat? (3)
    • Did you become a bureaucrat before turning 25? (25)
      • ... 20? (25)
      • ... 15? (100)
      • ... 11? (150)
      • ... before you were born?! (1800)
  16. Are you a steward? (25)
  17. Did you translate the Wikipedia software? (5)
  18. Did you program part of it? (100)
  19. Have you argued with your sock puppets on talk pages? (5)
    • ...and lost? (12)
  20. 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? (2)
    • ... have you cursed other Wikipedians because, no matter how fast you are, the article is always already updated with the breaking news? (3)
      • The same with sports events like the FIFA World Cup? (2.5)
      • ... out loud on the IRC channel? (3)
  21. Are you a member of Esperanza? (9)
  22. Are you a member of Concordia? (9)
  23. Do you help out on the reference desk on a regular basis? (10)
  24. Are you on the Mediation Cabal? (5)
    • Did you immediately think of answering TINC for the last question? (10)
      • ... or were you outraged that someone is revealing the cabal? (15)
        • ... and did you think of editing out this question so it would stay a "secret"? (20)
  25. Are you on the Mediation Committee? (10)
  26. Are you on the arbitration committee? (15 — why are you reading this? Go arbitrate!)

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? (4)
      • ... at least once a day? (7.5)
      • ... more than once a day? (11.625)
      • ... never? (-10)
  2. Do you have user subpages? (10)
    • More than 1? (2)
    • More than 5? (4)
    • More than 10? (8)
    • Do you use your user subpages to prepare a template? (15)
    • ...to prepare an article? (25)
      • ...an entire group of articles? (100)
        • ...an entire namespace?!? (1000)
    • ...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? (-22)
      • Have you vandalized other user's pages? (-222)
  4. Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first)
  5. Does your user page have userboxes? (1)
    • ... more than 5? (5)
    • ... more than 10? (10)
    • ... more than 50? (50)
    • Have you memorized the number of userboxes on your user page? (3)
      • ... because you have none? (10)
  6. Have you ever seen a userbox you created on someone else's user page? (5)
    • ... two userboxes on the same page? (10)
    • ... three? (20)
    • ... four or more? (30 and the Userbox Skills award)
    • ... or do you not know what userboxes are? (-5)

Vandalism

  1. Do you vandalize while under an IP? (-50)
  2. Do you vandalize while logged in? (-250)
    • ... on a non-primary account? (-5... you think you're so smart)
    • ... only on your own user page? (260)
      • ... with a sock puppet? (10)
  3. Are all of your contributions vandalism? (-100)
    • ... more than half? (-50)
  4. Are you the Communism vandal? (-1000. That's it, you lose.)
  5. Are you Willy on Wheels? (-2000)
  6. Have you been banned? (-100)
  7. Is your main goal in life to vandalize Wikipedia? (-5000)
    • Would you rather die than not vandalize Wikipedia? (-20000)
  8. Have you ever made nonsensical edits to pages that no one will ever see anyway just because you can? (1)
    • Have you ever reverted those changes out of guilt? (3)
      • ... and then reverted them back (and maybe back again) to increase your edit count? (6)
        • Did you just regret making those changes because you know they'll show up on Recent Changes? (1)
          • ... or did you regret them because you'll violate 3RR? (1)
            • ... or did you not care because 3RR states that self-reversions are allowed? (2)
  9. Have you ever reverted vandalism? (25)
    • Are you on some sort of vandalism patrol? (25)
    • Do you use tools like VandalProof to do so? (25)
      • ... or do it by hand because you don't use Windows? (30)
      • ... or do you vandalize with them instead? (-30 and removal from the permissions list)
  10. Do you ever dream nightmares about vandals? (25.01)

Bots

  1. Do you run a bot? (1 per bot)
    • Do you think that last question is unfair because your bot does the work of three? (10)
    • Is your bot running right now? (2 for each)
    • Did you properly request bot status before running it? (5)
  2. Have you written a bot? (2 for each)
  3. Has a sysop ever requested that your (human) account be flagged as a bot? (10)
  4. Do you even know what a bot is? (1)

How Wikipedia has affected you

Physical behavior

  1. Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (9)
  2. Are you sleeping in after 8:00 because you edited Wikipedia overnight? (5)
  3. 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? (2)
    • Does that work? (4)
  4. Do you lose sleep because you think you may have misspelled a word like "mispelled" on some talk page? (5)
  5. Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (3)
    • Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5)
    • Do you wake up in the night in a cold sweat wondering whether your latest submission was truly written from the NPOV? (6)
    • Do you have nightmares about vandalism? (7)
  6. Have you been forced to switch your mousing hand because your shoulder/arm was in terrible pain from using Wikipedia all day? (3)
    • ... and did you have to switch back because you screwed up the other arm too? (5)
      • Did you need arm/shoulder surgery shortly after that? (20% of the cost of the surgery in United States dollars divided by 9.99)

Influence of Social life

  1. Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5)
  2. Did that ruin your social life? (15)
  3. Do you have a Wikipedia T-shirt? (10)
  4. Is something you have thought was important, such as social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (10)
  5. Do you judge people you know in "real life" partly on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (6)
    • ... fully on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (30)
      • Do you think quality of contributions to Wikipedia is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (15 and a crash course in dating)
  6. Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are "productive" or "useful" - unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching football? (8)
    • Did you feel the need to disambiguate the link to football in the last question? (10)
      • ... or did you not because you knew someone from across the pond would just change it? (5)
  7. Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (1)
  8. Have you ever met another Wikipedian in "real life"? (2)
  9. Do you live with another Wikipedian? (35)
  10. Are you "in a relationship" (boyfriend/girlfriend) with another Wikipedian? (15)
  11. Are you engaged with another Wikipedian? (25)
  12. Have you married another Wikipedian? (30)
    • Do you have Wikipedian children? (60)
    • Did you divorce him/her because of disagreement on Wikipedia policies? (35)
      • ... then reconcile with him/her through talk page discussions? (25)
  13. Are you dating a non-Wikipedian? (-40)
    • Do you have NPOV issues with the negative score attributed to the previous question? (5)
  14. Have you told your significant other something from Wikipedia while on the phone? (10)
    • Was he or she impressed? (7.5)
    • ... or bored? (-5)
  15. Do you promote Wikipedia in person or by mentioning it on Usenet, IRC, forums or message boards, web pages, mail signatures, etc.? (2)
    • ... practically every day? (5)
    • ... for more than 2 hours a day? (5)
    • ... so often that others are fed up hearing about it? (10)
  16. Have you ever been banned from an IRC channel for linking to Wikipedia too many times? (5)
    • Banned from an entire network? (50)
  17. When people ask you questions, is your answer invariably a wiki link? (3)
  18. Has your constant Wikipedia use scared off your friends? (25)
    • ... your family? (55)
    • ... your cat? (75, and $20 to go get a life)
      • Are you upset that you don't get 20 points for the last question instead? (20)
      • Do you find the feline-centric nature of the last question abhorrent and demand 75 points and $20 for scaring off any pet? (80)
  19. Do you have more Wikipedia articles open than pictures of your spouse/family? (3 points for each one)
  20. Do you use terms like "dab", "lk", "sp", "revert", "blanking", "content", "NPOV", "vanity page", or other terms in their Wikipedia sense in unrelated contexts? (2)
  21. Could you take an expensive language course just to edit wikipedia in more languages? (75)
    • Did this cost more than 100$ (25)
      • More than 250? (50)
        • More than 500$? (100)
          • More than the worth of US Treasury? (350)
  22. Would you risk your family's life just because you want to edit an article? (100)
      • Have you done it? (100)
        • Did they actualle DIE???? (350, and an automaticly generated message to US Police)
    • Have you ever referred to alter egos outside of Wikipedia, online or otherwise, as "sock puppets"? (1)
      • Did you just discover for the first time that alternate accounts are not called "sock puppets" on non-Wikipedia sites by reading the line above? (3)
  23. Do you just have no social life because you're too tired from editing on Wikipedia? (50)

Computing habits

  1. Do you have a Wikipedia keyword or search plugin for your browser? (2)
  2. Do you type in wiki markup code? (10)
    • ... talk in wiki markup code? (25)
    • Have you typed a report in wiki markup code? (30 and a bad grade)
    • Have you installed your own wiki? (50)
      • ... so that you could rewrite Wikipedia articles? (5)
      • ... or implemented the same markup from scratch on your own website? (50)
        • ... and then release a plugin for others to use? (10)
  3. Have you ever tried to transclude a template into a plain old text file? (5)
    • Have you done so successfully (without copying and pasting)? (100)
  4. Do you subscribe to Wikipedia-L or any other Wikipedia mailing list? (2)
    • Do you actually read the posts to that mailing list? (2)
    • Do you find yourself refreshing the mailing list, hoping that something new has arrived? (5)
      • ... or do you have an automatic notifier, and laugh because you only have to refresh whenever the notifier tells you to? (7)
        • If you have one, did you make it yourself specifically for the Wikipedia mailing lists? (10)
  5. Did you buy a second monitor so you could devote an entire display to Wikipedia? (10% of the cost of the second monitor in United States dollars)
  6. Have you donated money to Wikipedia? (3)
    • Have you wanted to, but been too young to do it? (5)
  7. Have you ever thought about editing a normal webpage? (3)
    • Have you ever looked for the edit button? (5)
  8. Do you try to provide edit summaries when filling out forms on non-Wiki web sites? (5)
  9. Have you ever instinctively reached for the edit link to correct an unfortunate wording while reading a newspaper or book? (4)
  10. Do you save offline copies of long pages (i.e., WP:AN, WP:RFAR) or the mailing list so you can read them later when you are offline? (5)
  11. Do you classify links as internal and external on other sites (of course wrongly!) based on the color in your Wikipedia skin? (2)
  12. Have you made "Wikipedia" the name of a MUD character? (5 points)
  13. Are you surprised when you click on a normal link and it doesn't take you to a Wikipedia article? (1)
  14. Are all of your bookmarks Wikipedia-related? (8)
  15. Have you installed the Wikipedia Firefox extension? (5)
    • Have you installed the extension but found you never ever use it because you know all the details of Wikimarkup by heart anyway? (10)
    • Have you installed it, realized it doesn't work as intended, and fixed it on your computer? (3)
      • Did you submit the fix back to the mycroft project? (10)
        • Are you upset that they still haven't posted your fix? (2)
    • Did you just realize said extension existed, stop the test to install it, and continue where you left off? (4)
      • After trying to install it, did you find out that it didn't work with Firefox 1.5, cursed, and continue with the quiz? (4)
  16. Do you have the Wikipedia widget on your Dashboard? (5)
  17. Have you ever wanted to edit a chat or IRC message you just sent? (5)
    • Was that in a Wikipedia-related channel? (3)
  18. Have you ever signed a real e-mail or any other message not associated with Wikipedia with ~~~~? (1)
  19. Have you joined a Wikipedia community on a non-Wikipedia website? (3)
  20. Do you refuse to use social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace because your Wikipedia user page is "better than that crap"? (8)

The rest of the world

  1. Did you scoff at this header because Wikipedia is the world? (5)
  2. Have you ever edited Wikipedia in a country that you weren't born in? (10)
  3. Are you currently in a Wikipedia cult/clan? (20)
    • ... that wars with other encyclopedia clans? (50)
      • ... with another Wikipedia clan? (75)
    • Did anyone in your cult/clan tragically die in a clan war? (125 and a free grave, plus $50 off the cost of the headstone)
  4. Did you stop using your expensive CD-ROM encyclopedia and use Wikipedia for everything instead? (2)
    • Did you throw away that encyclopedia? (2)
    • Or did you keep that encyclopedia to cite as a source in Wikipedia articles? (10)
      • ... and did so correctly? (5)
    • ... or went ahead and added the material without providing a source? (-15)
  5. Have you ever submitted an assignment for work or school that cited Wikipedia? (5)
    • Did it cite an article that you had edited? (10)
    • ... created? (20)
  6. Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence)
  7. Have you written your Wikipedia username as your name on homework assignments? (10)
    • ... because your username is your real name? (7)
  8. Do you take out library books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little about? (4)
  9. Did you use Wikipedia to memorize pi?
    • ... more than 30 digits only with Wikipedia? (31.4)
    • ... more than 100 digits only with Wikipedia? (314 plus 2 for each additional digit)
  10. Have you ever bought a CD, movie, video game, book or other media product so you can write the article, scan the cover and upload it to Wikipedia? (5)
    • Did you pay full price for it? (5)
      • ... or even more? (10)
  11. Have you ever considered running a wiki version of your school's site? (2)
    • Have you ever done so? (5)
  12. When you applied for community service, did you volunteer to "revert vandalism"? (5)
  13. Have you listed your work on Wikipedia on your curriculum vitae or resumé? (3)
  14. Do you believe that nearly all of your success in your workplace or school comes from information gained on Wikipedia? (4)
  15. Have you committed a crime because someone got between you and Wikipedia? (713 and a life sentence)
    • ... then broken out of prison to get back to Wikipedia? (714 and a death sentence)
  16. When you see vandalism in real life, do you think "These must be the type of people that vandalize Wikipedia"? (2)
  17. Have you ever recommended Wikipedia to any of your real family or friends? (4)
    • Have they joined Wikipedia and contribute? (8)
      • Have they become Wikipediaholics? (12)

Wikipedia knowledge and opinion

  1. Do you know who Jimbo Wales is? (10)
    • If you don't, did you just look for his article? (5)
    • Has he ever talked to you on your user talk page? (5)
      • ... or are you Jimbo Wales? (1000000)
        • Did you lie to the above question to win the test? (-1000003)
        • ... and do you talk to yourself on your user talk page anyway? (5)
  2. Do you know where the Wikimedia Foundation is based? (10)
  3. Do you know when wikipedia was founded? (20.010115)
  4. 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)? (20)
  5. Do you think Wikipedia will be better than every other encyclopedia soon? (3)
  6. Do you think it is already better than every other encyclopedia? (2)
    • ... because you can change the spelling of the last word in the last question to "encyclopædia"? (2)
  7. Do you consider Wikipedia to be the closest thing to a precursor for "the computer" in Star Trek? (5)
  8. Do you honor Wikipedia like it is king? (45)
  9. Have you ever cheered out loud when you look at the updates on the Wikipedia Awareness Statistics? (5)
  10. Have you ever written a book about Wikipedia? (100)
    • ... and written an article about that book? (10)
      • ... then had someone correct a slip you made in the article? (2)
    • Are you really mad about the fact that you wrote an entire book about Wikipedia yet got only 100 points? (5)

Meta-questions

  1. Have you ever taken this quiz more than once simply to correspond with the most recent version? (2)
  2. Have you cheated on this test? (20)
    • ... to get into the Top 20 below? (5)
    • Were you surprised that cheating was worth 20 points? (2.5)
  3. Did you immediately think of ways to improve this test, or adjust the scores so that they neatly add up to 100? (3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944)
    • ... such as changing the score of the previous question to π? (1.61803398875)
    • Do you remember when the scores actually added up to 100 and laugh now that there are more questions than that on the test? (57.30)
      • Do you find it funny that all of these scores are mathematically-important numbers? (6.67E-34)
  4. Have you edited this test? (15)
    • ... and then taken it again? (4)
    • ... so you could remain in denial about your affliction? (8)
    • ... or so you could claim bragging rights? (12)
    • ... totally reorganized this test, because you were sick of using automated tests and wanted to fix counting it by hand once and for all? (55)
  5. Do you think your score is too high and maybe you'll do something about it after "a few more edits"? (6)
    • ... or are you so proud of it that you retake the test every month to see how much more addicted you've become? (10)
  6. Have you ever clicked back in order to score a question because you forgot it? (1)
  7. Did you notice that there is a different number of questions in the automated version? (2)
    • Were you annoyed to find out you didn't have to be adding up your score manually? (2)
      • Were you then relieved to find that the automated version wasn't working? (2)
        • ... then check back again and find that it had been fixed? (1)
    • Did you read through all of these questions without keeping total and find relief that there was an automated page? (1)
      • Did you do this test with a calculator or paper because you didn't know there was an automated version? (10)
        • ... or did know but added your score manually anyway? (40)
          • ... without a calculator? (30)
            • ... even though there was one right in front of you? (5)
              • ... Will you put a calculator in front of you the next time you take this test, so you can get those 5 points? (5)
          • ... solely in your head? (125)
          • ... then checked by adding again from bottom to top? (0.01)
            • ... in fear that you might be challenged on your statement of score at some future ArbCom hearing? (23)
        • ... or do you have parental controls on your browser that don't allow you to take the automated version? (50)
      • Did you take both tests, compare the scores, and see which one gives you more points? (4)
  8. If you have a web page, do you proudly display your score from this test on it? (5)
    • Did you notice that your user page could technically be your web page, and are displaying the score there to get 5 extra points? (30)
      • Have you ever not updated your user page Wikipediholic test score because it had gone down? (50)
        • Did you purposefully retake the test, letting your score fall, so that you could add 50 points to it by answering yes to the last question? (-51 — that is just sad)
  9. Did you realize you've just read — with academic interest! — a list of hundreds of questions and added up your score? (2)
    • ... and ignore the fact that the open nature of this quiz prevents your score from ever being objective? (2)
    • ... or did you create an automated version of this test so you wouldn't have to add up your score? (100)
  10. Upon seeing the top 20 scores at the bottom there, did you go back into the test to see if you could squeeze more points from it? (15)
    • ...did you realize that since this test is dynamic and ever-changing, it really doesn't matter? (1)
      • ...and did you not care? (5)
  11. Were you extremely addicted early on (score above 300 in your first three months)? (39.93)
  12. Did you delay taking this test because you were too busy editing other Wikipedia article(s)? (5)
  13. Have you wanted to move this page to conform to Wikipedia's naming conventions? (5)
    • ...have you done so? (15)
    • ...did you just check to see if there was a redirect? (2)
  14. Have you added together all of the point values on this test just to see how many points are possible? (5)
    • Do you know the number off the top of your head? (40)
    • Are you going to do this after you finish? (2)
    • Do you get upset because people cause the maximum score to change often? (2)
  15. Do you have something you should be doing, and are procrastinating by reading all of these questions? (20)

Bonus questions

You don't get many points for these questions, since they may be redundant or not provide a good measure of current addiction. However, the answers may provide useful information for your health worker:

  1. Do you vigorously complain that articles are not from the NPOV? (0.203)
  2. Have you ever requested an image of a chemical compound?(0.5)
  3. Do you know what Larry Sanger did?(1)
  4. Have you ever argued with Larry Sanger?(1)
  5. Have you edited/created pages in three or more different language Wikipedias?(0.5)
  6. ...FIVE or more different language Wikipedias?(0.6)
  7. Have you used a web translation tool to translate an other-language article on your favourite topic, decide that it is incoherent rubbish and replaced it with a web translation tool version of "your" article?(0.06 just to be mean)
  8. Have you ever removed outdated questions from this test?(0.2315)
  9. Have you ever neglected to maintain personal hygiene in favor of Wikipedia?(1)
  10. Have you ever broken up with a significant other, because they didn't think the wiki was "all that"?(0.9)
  11. Have you ever had an edit conflict - with yourself? (0.5 and a psychiatrist's session)
  12. Do you read non-Wikipedia webpages using red hyperlinks by default and click on them, thinking "I could write an article on that!"?(0.5)
  13. Do you create your own Wikipedia neologisms?(0.5)
  14. Are you upset that you wrote the article Wikipediaddiction and someone said it sounded "like the grammar and speech patterns of a Wikipedian?"(0.324876)
  15. ... and then it got deleted by VfD?(0.1, you should have expected it)
  16. Have you created a page full of red links, and then made a decision to put everything else on hold until you could (a) either fill in all the (red) blanks or (b) until your body could take it no further or (c) your computer couldn't?(1.293510723460528416E-153863)
  17. Have you added RAM to your machine so you could copy more text to the clipboard? (0.0101110101)
  18. ...Edit long pages?(0.1)
  19. ...Load pages faster?(0.2)
  20. ...Open multiple pages at the same time?(0.3)
  21. ...while transwikiing content?(0.4)
  22. ...to read talk and article at the same time?(0.5)
  23. ...to copy content to or from other articles?(0.6)
  24. ...to keep an eye out for vandalism while writing new articles?(0.7)
  25. Do you have other pages open right now editing them?(0.8)
  26. Do you use tabbed browsing to open multiple wiki pages at the same time?(0.9)
  27. Have you edited Wikipedia pages during intermittent power outages?(0.12354)
  28. Are you considering the purchase of an uninterruptible power supply solely because you 'lost a good edit' while doing so?(0.2)
  29. Did you actually buy it?(0.3452)
  30. The best one you could afford?(1)
  31. Are you eager to add questions to this list?(0.4)
  32. Are you proud to be a Wikipediholic?(0.34521277653423)
  33. Do you sometimes perspire profusely when editing talkpages?(0.139794235 and a chill pill)
  34. When you type a URL for a non-Wikipedia website into your web browser's address bar, do you habitually start typing "en.wikipedia.org" and correct yourself?(0.32)
  35. Did you interrupt taking this quiz in order to click on any of the interspersed links?(0.1023)
  36. ... or finish this quiz and scrolled back through the page to go to all of those links?(0.00001)
  37. ... or open the links in background tabs or windows?(0.032)
  38. Do you keep track of every vandal you catch?(0.5)
  39. HAVE YOU LOST ALL TRACES OF SANITY BECAUSE OF OVEREXPOSURE TO WIKIPEDIA? (1)
  40. Do you use an Internet browser to contribute? (0.0000000000000000000...01)
  41. Have you ever paid a pastatute to suitly emphazi you? (0.42)
    • Did you know what the terms in the above question meant without looking them up? (7)
      • Did you at least know how to pronounce them? (3)
        • Did you at least think you knew how to pronounce them? (1)
  42. When you show off your knowledge of something, do you give credit to Wikipedia (as an attempt to get people interested), even though you learned the facts from elsewhere? (2)
  43. Did you take this test, lose the results, and took the test again despite its lengthiness? (5)
  44. Did you actually take the whole test without scrolling to the bottom to see how many questions there were? (5)
  45. Have you ever had so many wikipedia background tabs open that the x button was partially hidden on firefox? (5)
  46. Did you ever add up all the points to see what the highest posible score is? (10)
    • Then find that your result is different than the one at the bottom of this page and then change it so it matches your result? (2)
  47. If one of your medieval game addicted friends mentions the "WoW is awesome" are you ready to fight? (0.253647)
  48. Do you use the sandbox even though you're not a newbie? (5)
    • ...just so you can have something to do on Wikipedia? (7)
      • ...after finishing your normal Wikipedia stuff? (5)
        • ...or before doing so? (-2)
          • Do you want to protest the above question because you spend your time at the sandbox checking whether someone has removed the sandbox heading? (9.05)
            • Do you readd the heading? (15)
              • Even though you know that a bot readds it every so often? (25)
                • Because you're getting rid of vandalism? (33.3)
  49. Do you refuse to answer these questions because they originally had no point values? (30)
  50. Did you try to increase the point values to increase your score? (5)
  51. Want to get more points just to be able to take a vacation? (-350)
    • Or was it because you want to be a famous Wikipedian!? (250)

Interpreting your score

–∞ – 100 You are a clueless newbie or a vandal.
101 – 250 You are an IP address user or a sock puppet.
251 – 400 A well-balanced attitude that may benefit by spending more time on Wikipedia.
401 – 650 This is the optimal, most productive range.
651 – 800 You are slightly overdoing yourself. Take a wikibreak for a couple of days.
801 – 1000 You are addicted to Wikipedia.
1001 – 1250 Scores in this range are commonly fatal.
1251 – 1500 You are really overdoing yourself.
1501 – 2000 You are editing too much! Get a life!
2001 – 2500 Go see a Wikidoctor NOW!
2501 – 5000 You are in serious trouble. It is very rare to turn away from Wikipedia at this range.
5001 – ∞ Your chances of turning away from Wikipedia are lower than slim to none. As a result, you are now listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Congratulations.

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

Top 20 scores

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The Top 20 Club has its own userbox: add {{User top20}} to your user page. Posting fake scores is punishable by crushing by elephant.

Ranking Score User Name Comment(s)
1st 1002206.505 Cute 1 4 u I can't believe it! I thought I was addicted but not this addictied. Wow! Very spooky.lol
2nd 7514.516277785591 Kschwerdt514 I took the automated version of this test, and I was amazed by the results. Mom always said I'd turn out well... (I retook the test... ssssh! Don't tell!)
3rd 7483.606710428974 BratX Perfectly true result of mine... i took it in the automated version and was amazed.... love to take it again sometime soon..
4th 5618.011957144904 PHDrillSergeant I answered this test honestly. Now I think I'm going to take vacation.
5th 5521.756 352 774 ish alerante Tested on revision 70124745. Disclaimer: I've edited completely reorganized the test.
6th 4530 Shreshth91 (talk) I think I'll just curl up and... make a few more edits
7th 3773.4974417855938 — [Mac Davis] (talk) I <33 Wikipedia.
8th 3475.9211225191543 Tyman 101 Well..... no wonder I have so high marks in school! :')
9th 3471.1751325191526 AmiDaniel (talk) Automated version, first time I took it. How sad.
10th 3285.5073067855933 GrimRepr I keep retaking it to see how good i do.
11th 3242.559197550593 Kedi the tramp Automated version. First time. Registrated 4 days ago before years of lurking. I'm telling you, Wikipedia is just the direction my internet addiction has taken. God, give me some life!
12th 3011.412985643906 NapoleonAlanparte I lost my score, however, I retook the the test, but lost it again. I know it was around the number that is my score now.
13th 2805.8496685191817 DemosDemon For real, took the automated quiz, and did not lie or cheat (automated version) - someone remove my user box if I ever get pushed off please (even though this page is now on my watch list and I will check it prob every five minutes)
14th 2794.425567430125 the wub This is for real on the automated test, but I'm worried that such a ridiculous number has no citations of reliable sources.
15th 2748.11 Essjay User:Essjay/Wikiholism
16th 2654.301265550593 Bleeding Span Next Wikipediholic Test score. Amazing!!!
17th 2343 Whopper Wow, I think I'm too addicted, I won lots of "free stuff, and got a fuzzy feeling inside
18th 2324.7130975505934 digital_me(TalkˑContribs) I do this when I'm bored--and I find I'm more addicted every day!
19th 2308.075451131719 American Patriot 1776 So that's why my computer's fan runs even when it's off...
20th 2263.514288143254 King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ In Soviet Russia, Are You a Wikipediholic Test overlinks you on wheels!
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipediholism_test&oldid=70970403

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