Difference between revisions 55302083 and 55318990 on enwiki{{humor|[[WP:WHT]]<br>[[WP:TEST]]<br>[[WP:AYAWH]]<br>[[WP:HOLICTEST]]}} [[Image:Star of life.svg|right|180px]] If you're not sure whether you are a [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|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 welcomed—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. NOTES: *GIVE YOURSELF AT LEAST 15–20 MINUTES! *The total point value on the test is currently over 10 000, but since this test is ever-changing, it doesn't really matter. ''Don't want it to take that long? Then use the [http://merphant.net/cgi-bin/wikiholic.cgi automated version]!'' ==The Test== ===How often you use Wikipedia=== # Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a week? (0.5) # Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a day ? (1) # 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? (6) # ... more than ten? (10) # ... more than twelve? (12) # 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) <!--I am amazed. ~~Fredil Yupigo--> # Did you answer No to the previous question because you edit Wikipedia on the toilet? (101) # Did you answer Yes to question #14 because you wear a [[GoodNites|youth]] or [[Depend (diaper)|adult]] [[diaper]]? (150) <!--I am not amazed at all. ~~Fredil Yupigo--> # 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) # ... less than 10%? (–10... and you considered taking this test...) # ... are you on Wikipedia less than 100% because you spend time on the rest of the internet solely to look up information to add to Wikipedia? (50) # ... less than 0.01%? (–100; you may now press the "Back" button on your browser) # Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's [[bandwidth]]? (5) # Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (5) ===Where you use Wikipedia=== # From how many locations have you visited Wikipedia in the past 30 days? (1 per machine) # 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]]) # Do you browse Wikipedia on a [[PlayStation Portable]] browser? (5) # Do you edit Wikipedia on that browser? (10) # Do you do anything other than Wikipedia on that browser? (-20) # 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) # 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'''? (Another 10) # Do you ever go to other restaurants? (-8) # Do you edit Wikipedia while ''waiting'' for your meal? (Another 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) # 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) # 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 <!-- do not correct -->writteing<!-- do not correct --> an article? (50) <!-- Did you immediately try to correct this misspelling of the word "writing"? (20) --> <!-- Do you leave "invisible" notes that can only be seen by other potential article editors? (20) --> <!-- Are you only going to take the Wikipediholic test by viewing its source now? (10) --> <!-- Did you stop using the automated version to do that? (15) --Based on the test version at 21:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC). My answers to the test in blue. ==The Test== ===How often you use Wikipedia=== # Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a week? (0.5) <font color=blue>Oh good God yes...</font> # Do you typically use Wikipedia at least once a day ? (1) <font color=blue>At least.</font> # Do you typically use Wikipedia for more than an hour a day? (1.5) <font color=blue>There are people who don't?</font> # ... more than two hours? (2) <font color=blue>Again, there are people who don't?</font> # ... more than four hours? (4) <font color=blue>Of course...</font> # ... more than six? (6) <font color=blue>Daily...</font> # ... more than ten? (10) <font color=blue>Usually...</font> # ... more than twelve? (12) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Have you used Wikipedia for a full twenty-four hour stretch? (25) <font color=blue>Quite frequently.</font> # ... more than twenty-four? (25 plus 1 for each hour over 24 hours) <font color=blue>Sure do.</font> # ... without breaks to eat? (50) <font color=blue>Yeah...</font> # ... or drink? (75) <font color=blue>Hello, fridge by the bed...</font> # ... or to sleep? (100) <font color=blue>Um, isn't that the point of "full 24-hour stretch"...</font> # ... or to go to the toilet? (100) <font color=blue>I'm not *that* bad.</font> # Did you answer No to the previous question because you edit Wikipedia on the toilet? (101) <font color=blue>Sadly, the wirless doesn't reach there.</font> # Did you answer Yes to question #14 because you wear a [[GoodNites|youth]] or [[Depend (diaper)|adult]] [[diaper]]? (150) <font color=blue>Give me a few years...</font> # Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Wikipedia? (10) <font color=blue>Where else...</font> # ... more than 70%? (20) <font color=blue>...</font> # ... more than 80%? (30) <font color=blue>There are other sites?</font> # ... more than 90%? (40) <font color=blue>Internet = Wikimedia, right?</font> # ... more than 95%? (50) <font color=blue>Where else would I go?</font> # ... more than 99.9%? (59.88) <font color=blue>This is getting old...</font> # ... 100%? (100) <font color=blue>Bingo!</font> # ... less than 10%? (–10... and you considered taking this test...) <font color=blue>Gah! Ban them on sight!</font> # ... are you on Wikipedia less than 100% because you spend time on the rest of the internet solely to look up information to add to Wikipedia? (50) <font color=blue>I don't have time to cite sources...There are vandals to catch!</font> # ... less than 0.01%? (–100; you may now press the "Back" button on your browser) <font color=blue>Range...block.</font> # Do you think you're using a significant portion of Wikipedia's [[bandwidth]]? (5) <font color=blue>They put in an extra server for me...</font> # Do you feel guilty about not having enough time to edit Wikipedia? (5) <font color=blue>Damn sleep...</font> <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 643.88'''</font> ===Where you use Wikipedia=== # From how many locations have you visited Wikipedia in the past 30 days? (1 per machine) <font color=blue>10...Three laptops at home, my office comp, Robbie's office, and several cafes.</font> # Do you edit Wikipedia on a laptop? (1) <font color=blue>Three laptops...</font> # Did your laptop's fan go on by itself while you were at Wikipedia? (2) <font color=blue>Does it count as "going on" if it never went off?</font> # 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]]) <font color=blue>I had a laptop replaced under warranty because of excessive use here...</font> # Do you browse Wikipedia on a [[PlayStation Portable]] browser? (5) <font color=blue>Um, why have video games, they take away from time editing...</font> # Do you edit Wikipedia on that browser? (10) # Do you do anything other than Wikipedia on that browser? (-20) # If you use dial-up, is your phone bill larger than before you discovered Wikipedia? (2) <font color=blue>Have been known to use dial-up to university comps when my wireless is down.</font> # Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia while paying long distance charges to connect to the Internet? (5) <font color=blue>Sadly, yes, while on vacation.</font> # Do you hook up to Wikipedia over a wireless Internet connection? (2) <font color=blue>Daily...I put wireless in my house *for* Wikipedia...</font> # Do you edit Wikipedia articles while over such a connection? (4) <font color=blue>Um, yeah, 13,000+ times...</font> # Is that connection in a restaurant? (6) <font color=blue>Frequently, yes.</font> # Are you on a date in this restaurant? (50) <font color=blue>Well, while out with Robbie, yes.</font> # Did you pick that restaurant '''because of that'''? (Another 10) <font color=blue>Of course...Why else would I go there?</font> # Do you ever go to other restaurants? (-8) <font color=blue>Only ones with wireless...</font> # Do you edit Wikipedia while ''waiting'' for your meal? (Another 8) <font color=blue>What else would I do?</font> # ... '''during''' your meal? (20) <font color=blue>Uh, yeah.</font> # ... '''while eating?''' (25) <font color=blue>Why not?</font> # ... with one hand on the keyboard, and one on your food? (50) <font color=blue>When I have something important to say...</font> # ... with one foot on the food and two hands on the keyboard? (100) <font color=blue>Ewwww.</font> # ... with four limbs on the keyboard and your head in your food? (125) <font color=blue>Two words: Feed bag.</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Actually, more often than I'd like to admit...</font> # Are you on [[Lufthansa]] flight 411D, which recently added wireless access to the Internet during flight? (25) <font color=blue>Not quite, but I have done offline Wikipedia work on a flight...</font> # Are you eating your meal on said flight while taking this test or <nowiki><!-- do not correct -->writteing<!-- do not correct --></nowiki> an article? (50) <nowiki><!-- Did you immediately try to correct this misspelling of the word "writing"? (20) --></nowiki> <font color=blue>Yes.</font> <nowiki><!-- Do you leave "invisible" notes that can only be seen by other potential article editors? (20) --></nowiki> <font color=blue>Not on this test...</font> <nowiki><!-- Are you only going to take the Wikipediholic test by viewing its source now? (10) --></nowiki> <font color=blue>Um, kinda the point of answering point by point...</font> <nowiki><!-- Did you stop using the automated version to do that? (15) --></nowiki> <font color=blue>No, I stopped because it's horribly out of date.</font></nowiki> # 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) # Have you ever edited Wikipedia while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (5) <font color=blue>Not quite...</font> # Did your computer/laptop get wet and short out when you were taking a bath? (25) # ... did it violently explode? (50) # ... if it did, are you now taking this test in a hospital? (50) # 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 less than the original question? (0.235711131719) # Did you notice that the last three questions were only 84 points less than the original question? (1.4856) # Do you work on Wikipedia in almost zero light because of an electical 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? (17) ===When you use Wikipedia=== # Do you use the shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3) # Do you edit articles in your dreams while sleeping? (17) # Do you edit articles in your dreams while awake (daydreaming)? (20) # Do you curse out loud upon waking and realizing that you have to make all those edits over again? (2 points more) # Or are the edits actually still there...? (100 bonus points, plus the [[James Randi#The $1 million challenge|Randi prize]]) # 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 timezone yourself? (3) # 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) # Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (80) # Do you make edits while [[drunkenness|drunk]] or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes? (1) # Have you not answered an e-mail or instant message on time because you were browsing Wikipedia? (5) # Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other? (5) # Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (6) ===What you do on Wikipedia=== ====Editing==== # Did you edit a page before creating an account? (0.1) # Did you edit a page after creating an account? (0.5) # Do you [[Help:Starting a new page|start]] new articles? (2) # Do you make [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] pages? (1) # Do you have an urge to edit [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|<span style="color: #cc2200">this nonexistent article</span>]]</span>? (1) # Did you immediately try to edit the above nonexistent article? (10) # Do you comment on articles or engage in discussions? (2) # Do you wander on WP looking for something to contribute to? (5) # Do you request that articles be [[Wikipedia:Requested articles|created]], [[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention|improved]], [[Wikipedia:Stub|expanded]], [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion|deleted]], etc.? (1) # Do you fulfill such requests? (2) # 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 points and a barnstar) # Have you ever edited a stub and made it a long article? (2) # Have you [[Wikipedia:Bug reports|requested]] a new software feature, or reported a [[computer bug|bug]], in the last few weeks? (2) # Have you ever wished [[MediaZilla:4900|the Wikipediholism RFE]] was fulfilled? (5) # 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 garden (wiki)|walled garden]]s? (3) # Have you ever wanted to edit someone else's [[Wikipedia:Edit summary|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 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) # 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) # Did you give yourself 75 points because you live near (25 miles/40 km) the border of another country? (10) ====Special pages==== # Do you click on "[[Special:Random|Random article]]" at least once a day (or just because you're bored)? (2) # When you click "[[Special:Random|Random article]]", do you, more often than not, find an article you have edited? (30) # ... written? (100) # 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) # Do you hit [[Alt key|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) # Do you check "[[Special:Recentchanges|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) # 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) # Do you check your [[Special:Watchlist|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) # 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) # 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) # Is this page on your watchlist? (2) ====Who you are==== # Do you have a [[Special:Userlogin|user account]] on Wikipedia? (1) # Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (3) # Did you edit before turning 18? (2.5) # ... 16? (12.5) # ... 13? (25) # ... 10? (50) # ... 7? (100) <!-- You are automatically my hero -Ilyanep --> # 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) # 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) # Do you have a [[Ph.D.]] that you use to contribute to Wikipedia? (30) # Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7) # Are you an ambassador for Wikipedia? (2) # Are you an ambassador for more than one Wikipedia? (2 points more) # Have you ever requested to be a [[Wikipedia:Administrators|sysop]]? (2) # 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) # Have you ever requested to be a bureaucrat? (3) # Are you a bureaucrat? (3) # Did you become a bureaucrat before turning 25? (25) <font color=blue>+100, see below.</font> # Did you realize that you receive 100 points if you have just one or the other? (5) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Sure have...</font> # Are you disappointed that the last three follow-up questions were worth 85 points less than the original question? (0.235711131719) # Did you notice that the last three questions were only 84 points less than the original question? (1.4856) # Do you work on Wikipedia in almost zero light because of an electical power failure? (20) <font color=blue>Extended batteries, candlelight, and dial-up.</font> # Did you immediately just try to think of ways to get on Wikipedia with no electricity after you read the last question? (17) <font color=blue>Didn't *have* to...</font> <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 510''' </font> ===When you use Wikipedia=== # Do you use the shortcut keys when using Wikipedia? (3) <font color=blue>Always...I do Ctrl-A-C-S-V so often I've grown another index finger...</font> # Do you edit articles in your dreams while sleeping? (17) <font color=blue>Sadly, yes.</font> # Do you edit articles in your dreams while awake (daydreaming)? (20) <font color=blue>Sometimes...</font> # Do you curse out loud upon waking and realizing that you have to make all those edits over again? (2 points more) <font color=blue>Not really...</font> # Or are the edits actually still there...? (100 bonus points, plus the [[James Randi#The $1 million challenge|Randi prize]]) <font color=blue>Uh, yeah, right.</font> # Have you edited before 6:30 in the morning? (6) <font color=blue>Every day...</font> # ... until 2:00? (1) <font color=blue>Daily...</font> # ... until 4:00? (2) <font color=blue>Always...</font> # ... until 6:00? (4) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # ... until 8:00 or later? (7) <font color=blue>Daily routine...</font> # Did you give yourself 14 points since it is always 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, or 8:00 somewhere? (3 points for cleverness) <font color=blue>Heh.</font> # ... or did you just assume it meant [[UTC]]? (1) <font color=blue>No...I assumed it meant local time...Why would I care if I was on at 2AM UTC (10PM local)?</font> # ... even though you are not in a UTC timezone yourself? (3) <font color=blue></font> # Do you edit Wikipedia at night (i.e. after midnight) consuming drinks to keep you up? (2) <font color=blue>Gotta love tea.</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Most nights...</font> # Do you get people to join you in such an event? (10) <font color=blue>God I love Robbie.</font> # ... and continue in the morning, sacrificing important daytime things to continue editing? (100) <font color=blue>Sadly, yes.</font> # Has such behavior made you nocturnal? (150) <font color=blue>Check my contribs...8PM-8AM.</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Sometimes.</font> # ''Do you still find yourself on past midnight, anyway?'' (20) <font color=blue>So what if I am?</font> # Do you wake up to find yourself editing Wikipedia? (80) <font color=blue>I wake up and find the comp still on...</font> # Do you make edits while [[drunkenness|drunk]] or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes? (1) <font color=blue>Uh, no.</font> # Have you not answered an e-mail or instant message on time because you were browsing Wikipedia? (5) <font color=blue>Oui.</font> # Have you ever browsed Wikipedia while on the phone with your significant other? (5) <font color=blue>Does every day count?</font> # Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Wikipedia? (6) <font color=blue>Not really...</font> <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 375''' </font> ===What you do on Wikipedia=== ====Editing==== # Did you edit a page before creating an account? (0.1) <font color=blue>No, actually.</font> # Did you edit a page after creating an account? (0.5) <font color=blue>About 14,000 times...</font> # Do you [[Help:Starting a new page|start]] new articles? (2) <font color=blue>Yes.</font> # Do you make [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] pages? (1) <font color=blue>Quite frequently.</font> # Do you have an urge to edit [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|<span style="color: #cc2200">this nonexistent article</font>]]</font>? (1) <font color=blue>Not really.</font> # Did you immediately try to edit the above nonexistent article? (10) <font color=blue>Been here, done that.</font> # Do you comment on articles or engage in discussions? (2) <font color=blue>Uh, yeah.</font> # Do you wander on WP looking for something to contribute to? (5) <font color=blue>Who has time?</font> # Do you request that articles be [[Wikipedia:Requested articles|created]], [[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention|improved]], [[Wikipedia:Stub|expanded]], [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion|deleted]], etc.? (1) <font color=blue>The words "lesser mortals" come to mind...</font> # Do you fulfill such requests? (2) <font color=blue>Check the delete log.</font> # 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 points and a barnstar) <font color=blue>Featuritis kills (friendships, mostly).</font> # Have you ever edited a stub and made it a long article? (2) <font color=blue>Oui.</font> # Have you [[Wikipedia:Bug reports|requested]] a new software feature, or reported a [[computer bug|bug]], in the last few weeks? (2) <font color=blue>Yep...I have brion's home number, for cripes sake.</font> # Have you ever wished [[MediaZilla:4900|the Wikipediholism RFE]] was fulfilled? (5) # Have you ever created a new article with over five internal links to articles that you have edited at some point or another? (2) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Were all these articles ones that you not only edited, but created? (2) <font color=blue>Not quite.</font> # Did you read the last question and think it should have a score of –2 for creating [[walled garden (wiki)|walled garden]]s? (3) # Have you ever wanted to edit someone else's [[Wikipedia:Edit summary|edit summaries]]? (1) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Have you ever wanted to edit your own edit summaries? (2) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Have you ever wanted to ''preview'' your edit summaries? (4) <font color=blue>Not really...</font> # Do you have a text file filled with Wikipedia templates? (4) <font color=blue>No, I have the signature extension...</font> # Do you not have to because you have all your templates on userpage subpages? (5) <font color=blue>Quite a few.</font> # Do you just know all of the Wikipedia templates? (10) <font color=blue>That too.</font> # Have you ever travelled more than two miles (three kilometres) out of your way just to take a photo for a Wikipedia article? (2) <font color=blue>Nope...But I've sent people on special missions.</font> # ... more than 10 miles (16 km)? (4) # ... more than 25 miles (40 km)? (10) # ... to another country? (75) # Did you give yourself 75 points because you live near (25 miles/40 km) the border of another country? (10) <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 32.5''' </font> ====Special pages==== # Do you click on "[[Special:Random|Random article]]" at least once a day (or just because you're bored)? (2) <font color=blue>If you have time to do that, you're not addicted.</font> # When you click "[[Special:Random|Random article]]", do you, more often than not, find an article you have edited? (30) # ... written? (100) # 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) # Do you hit [[Alt key|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) # Do you check "[[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]]" almost every day? (2) <font color=blue>There are people who don't?</font> # Do you check Recent changes more than ten times a day? (5) <font color=blue>Again...</font> # Do you have Recent changes bookmarked? (1) <font color=blue>Yes.</font> # Do you have Recent changes set as your start page? (11) <font color=blue>No, I have four watchlists and a talk page.</font> # Do you manage to get the same list of changes on Recent changes twice? (2) <font color=blue>Happens freqently if you patrol small wikis.</font> # ... or is it because you have two windows open at the same time? (5 plus the Master Nerd Prize) # Do you check your [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]] almost every day? (1) <font color=blue>"Almost"?</font> # Do you check your watchlist more than ten times a day? (4) <font color=blue>Ten...thousand...</font> # Do you have your watchlist bookmarked (favorite)? (1) <font color=blue>Yes, all of them.</font> # Do you have your watchlist set as your start page (home)? (8) <font color=blue>Four of them: wq, meta, commons, & cv.</font> # Did you just bookmark any of the above pages just so you could get the extra points? (7) <font color=blue>I don't have to cheat.</font> # ... set any one of them as your home page? (15) <font color=blue>Again, didn't have to.</font> # Do you have more than 50 items in your watchlist? (1) <font color=blue>50? Try 500.</font> # ... more than 100? (5) <font color=blue>Ahem.</font> # ... more than 500? (10) <font color=blue>Sure do.</font> # ... more than 1,000? (20) <font color=blue>Only if I don't clean it out every week.</font> # ... more than 10,000? (49.1) <font color=blue>Not quite. If I had time to have 10,000 articles on my watchlist...</font> # Were you upset that you didn't get 0.9 more points on the above question? (0.8) # Is this page on your watchlist? (2) <font color=blue>Actually, yes.</font> <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 62''' </font> ====Who you are==== # Do you have a [[Special:Userlogin|user account]] on Wikipedia? (1) <font color=blue>Yes...All projects.</font> # Do you have a user account on several Wikipedias? (3) <font color=blue>It's a requirement to be an admin on several...</font> # Did you edit before turning 18? (2.5) <font color=blue>Uh, kinda hard, since Wikipedia didn't exist...</font> # ... 16? (12.5) # ... 13? (25) # ... 10? (50) # ... 7? (100) <!-- You are automatically my hero -Ilyanep --> # 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) # 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) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Do you have a [[Ph.D.]] that you use to contribute to Wikipedia? (30) <font color=blue>Two.</font> # Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Wikipedia but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7) <font color=blue>Haven't we all?</font> # Are you an ambassador for Wikipedia? (2) # Are you an ambassador for more than one Wikipedia? (2 points more) # Have you ever requested to be a [[Wikipedia:Administrators|sysop]]? (2) <font color=blue>On five different projects...</font> # Are you a sysop? (2) <font color=blue>On four...</font> # Did you become a sysop before turning 25? (12.5) <font color=blue>Again, didn't exist...</font> # ... 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) <font color=blue>4...</font> # Have you ever requested to be a bureaucrat? (3) <font color=blue>Requisite to being one...</font> # Are you a bureaucrat? (3) <font color=blue>Ahem.</font> # Did you become a bureaucrat before turning 25? (25) <font color=blue>What's with the focus on 25? Some of us were 25 before Wikipedia existed.</font> # ... 20? (25) # ... 15? (100) # ... 11? (150) # ... before you were born?! (1800) # Are you a steward? (25 points) # Did you translate the Wikipedia software? (5) # Did you program part of it? (100) # Have you argued with your [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry|sock puppet]]s on talk pages? (5) # ...and lost? (12) <!-- I'm scared that your arguing skills are so bad. Fredil Yupigo--> # 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) # Are you a member of [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|Esperanza]]? (5)⏎ # Do you help out on the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|reference desk]] on a regular basis? (10) # Are you on the Meditation Committee? (10) # Did you answer yes to the previous question, then notice that there is no such thing as the Medi'''t'''ation commitee? (-10.1) # Are you on the [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|arbitration committee]]? (15 — why are you reading this? Go arbitrate!) ====User pages==== # Do you have your own [[Wikipedia:User page|User page]]? (2) # Have you ever edited ''another user's'' user page (not for vandalism)? (2) # Have you edited that user's page for vandalism? (-22) # Have you edited other user's pages for vandalism? (-222) # Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first) # 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) ====Vandalism==== # Do you vandalize while under an IP? (–50) # 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? (10) <font color=blue>I helped '''found''' it, before it went to hell.</font> # Do you help out on the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|reference desk]] on a regular basis? (10) <font color=blue>Once upon a time.</font> # Are you on the Mediation Committee? (10) <font color=blue>Chairman.</font> # Did you answer yes to the previous question, then notice that there is no such thing as the Medi'''t'''ation commitee? (-10.1) <font color=blue>Nope...I fixed the spelling as I went along...Part of the job of being chair.</font> # Are you on the [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|arbitration committee]]? (15 — why are you reading this? Go arbitrate!) <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 83''' </font> ====User pages==== # Do you have your own [[Wikipedia:User page|User page]]? (2) <font color=blue>Several.</font> # Have you ever edited ''another user's'' user page (not for vandalism)? (2) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Have you edited that user's page for vandalism? (-22) # Have you edited other user's pages for vandalism? (-222) # Does your talk page have an archive? (5, plus 1 for each archive after the first) <font color=blue>30.</font> # Have you ever seen a userbox you created on someone else's user page? (5) <font color=blue>Most of the ones that were originally popular were stolen from me.</font> # ... two userboxes on the same page? (10) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # ... three? (20) <font color=blue>Freqently.</font> # ... four or more? (30 and the Userbox Skills award) <font color=blue>Thanks.</font> <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 104''' </font> ====Vandalism==== # Do you vandalize while under an IP? (–50) <font color=blue>Block.</font> # Do you vandalize while logged in? (–250) <font color=blue>Indefblock.</font> # ... on a non-primary account? (–5... you think you're so smart) <font color=blue>Not so smart I won't catch you.</font> # ... only on your own user page? (10) # ... with a sock puppet? (5) # Are you [[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Wikipedia is Communism|the Communism vandal]]? (–1000. That's it, you lose.) # Are you [[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Willy on Wheels|Willy on Wheels]]? (-2000 <!--PLEASE do not add commas! They mess up the automated version. ~~Fredil Yupigo-->, but thanks for telling us) # Have you been banned (<!-- -10 -->0<!-- 0 for editing while banned.) -->) # 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) ⏎ ====Bots==== # 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)<font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 0''' </font> ====Bots==== # Do you run a bot? (1 per bot) <font color=blue>MediationBot is on it's way.</font> # Do you think that last question is unfair because your bot does the work of three? (10) <font color=blue>Heh.</font> # Is your bot running right now? (2 for each) # Did you properly request bot status before running it? (5) <font color=blue>I *grant* bot status.</font> # Have you written a bot? (2 for each) # Is it [[free software]] or [[open source]]? (10) # ... on [[SourceForge]] or [[BerliOS]]? (5) # Do other people use your bot software to run their own bots? (20) # Has a sysop ever requested that your (human) account be flagged as a bot? (10)⏎ <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 0, ATM.''' </font> ===How Wikipedia has affected you=== ====Physical behavior==== # Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (9)⏎ # Are you sleeping in after 8:00 because you edited Wikipedia overnight? (5) # 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) # Do you lose sleep because you think you may have misspelled a word like "mispelled" on some talk page? (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 [[WP:NPOV|NPOV]]? (6) # Do you have nightmares about vandalism? (7) # 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 cents divided by 999) ====Social life==== # Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5) # Do you have a [[m:Wikipedia T-shirts|Wikipedia T-shirt]]? (10) # Is something you have thought was important, such as social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (10) # Do you judge people you know in "real life" partly 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) # 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) # Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (1) # Have you ever met another Wikipedian in "real life"? (2, what's "real life"?) # Do you live with another Wikipedian? (35) # Are you engaged with another Wikipedian? (25) # Have you ''married'' another Wikipedian? (30) # Did you divorce him/her because of disagreement on Wikipedia policies? (35) # ... then reconcile with him/her through talk page discussions? (25) # Are you dating a non-Wikipedian? (–40) # Do you have [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|NPOV]] issues with the negative score attributed to the previous question? (5) # Have you told your significant other something from Wikipedia while on the phone? (10) # Was he or she impressed? (7.5) # ... or bored? (–5) # Do you promote Wikipedia in person or by mentioning it on [[Usenet]], [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]], [[Internet forum|forums]] or message boards, [[World Wide Web|web pages]], mail [[signature]]s, etc.? (2) # When people ask you questions, is your answer almost invariably a wiki link? (3) # Has your constant Wikipedia use scared off your friends? (25) # ... your family? (55) # ... your cat? (75, and $ome money to go get a new cat) <font color=blue>Sleep?</font> # Are you sleeping in after 8:00 because you edited Wikipedia overnight? (5) <font color=blue>How about going to bed after 8...</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Implies sleeping during the night...</font> # Does that work? (4) <font color=blue>No.</font> # Do you lose sleep because you think you may have misspelled a word like "mispelled" on some talk page? (5) # Have you ever dreamed about Wikipedia? (3) <font color=blue>Often.</font> # Have you ever dreamed about other Wikipedians? (5) <font color=blue>Sure have.</font> # Do you wake up in the night in a cold sweat wondering whether your latest submission was truly written from the [[WP:NPOV|NPOV]]? (6) # Do you have nightmares about vandalism? (7) <font color=blue>Occasionally.</font> # Have you been forced to switch your mousing hand because your shoulder/arm was in terrible pain from using Wikipedia all day? (3) <font color=blue>No comment.</font> # ... 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 cents divided by 999) <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 31''' </font> ====Social life==== # Have you ever told someone about your countless edits? (5) <font color=blue>I have it *on my userpage*...</font> # Do you have a [[m:Wikipedia T-shirts|Wikipedia T-shirt]]? (10) <font color=blue>Attention all dorks...</font> # Is something you have thought was important, such as social life, career or studies, suffering because you spend so much time on Wikipedia? (10) <font color=blue>Not really...I have tenure.</font> # Do you judge people you know in "real life" partly on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (6) <font color=blue>Robbie doesn't contribute much.</font> # ... ''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) <font color=blue>Met him before I met Wikipedia.</font> # Do you argue that contributions to Wikipedia are "productive" or "useful" - unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching [[football]]? (8) <font color=blue>Ew. Football.</font> # 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) # Have you ever phoned another Wikipedian? (1) <font color=blue>Not just a Wikipedian, but a reporter...</font> # Have you ever met another Wikipedian in "real life"? (2, what's "real life"?) <font color=blue>Convenient to have a partner with an account...</font> # Do you live with another Wikipedian? (35) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Are you engaged with another Wikipedian? (25) <font color=blue>Descrimination based on sexual orientation...</font> # Have you ''married'' another Wikipedian? (30) <font color=blue>Ahem.</font> # Did you divorce him/her because of disagreement on Wikipedia policies? (35) # ... then reconcile with him/her through talk page discussions? (25) # Are you dating a non-Wikipedian? (–40) # Do you have [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|NPOV]] issues with the negative score attributed to the previous question? (5) # Have you told your significant other something from Wikipedia while on the phone? (10) <font color=blue>Daily.</font> # Was he or she impressed? (7.5) <font color=blue>Long ago..</font> # ... or bored? (–5) <font color=blue>Not really.</font> # Do you promote Wikipedia in person or by mentioning it on [[Usenet]], [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]], [[Internet forum|forums]] or message boards, [[World Wide Web|web pages]], mail [[signature]]s, etc.? (2) <font color=blue>I'm an IRC *Group Contact*.</font> # When people ask you questions, is your answer almost invariably a wiki link? (3) <font color=blue>[[Heh]].</font> # Has your constant Wikipedia use scared off your friends? (25) <font color=blue>I have a nice social life.</font> # ... your family? (55) # ... your cat? (75, and $ome money to go get a new cat) <font color=blue>Only when I get mad at people...</font> # Are you upset that you don't get some points for the last question instead? (23.2178246245) # Do you find the feline-centric nature of the last question abhorrent and demand 75 points and money for scaring off ''any'' pet? (80) # Did you realize that the use of [[United States dollar]]s is both irrelevant and a product of [[Systemic bias]]? (20) # Do you have more Wikipedia articles open than pictures of your spouse/family? (3 points for each one) # 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) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Have you ever referred to alter egos outside of Wikipedia, online or otherwise, as "sock puppets"? (1) <font color=blue>Heh.</font> # 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) # Do you just have no social life because you're too tired from editing on Wikipedia? (50) #Have you ever referred to yourself as 'this user' in "real life"? (2) ⏎ ====Computing habits==== # Do you have a Wikipedia keyword or search plugin for your browser? (2) # Do you type in wiki markup code? (10)<font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 306.5''' </font> ====Computing habits==== # Do you have a Wikipedia keyword or search plugin for your browser? (2) <font color=blue>Several.</font> # Do you type in wiki markup code? (10) <font color=blue>Sadly.</font> # ... 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? (10) <font color=blue>A couple.</font> # ... 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) # 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) # Do you subscribe to [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists|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) # 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) # Have you donated money to Wikipedia? (3) # Have you wanted to, but been too young to do it? (5) # Have you ever donated one cent to Wikipedia just for fun? (0.01) # Have you ever thought about editing a normal webpage? (3) # Have you ever '''looked''' for the edit button? (5) # Do you try to provide edit summaries when filling out forms on non-Wiki web sites? (5) # Have you ever instinctively reached for the ''edit'' link to correct an unfortunate wording while reading a newspaper or book? (4) # 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) # Do you classify links as internal and external on other sites (of course wrongly!) based on the color in your Wikipedia [[meta:Help:Preferences|skin]]? (2) # Have you made "Wikipedia" the name of a [[MUD]] character? (5 points) # Are you surprised when you click on a normal link and it doesn't take you to a Wikipedia article? (1) # Are all of your bookmarks Wikipedia-related? (8) # Have you installed the Wikipedia [[Mozilla Firefox|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) <font color=blue>12...And admin one.</font> # Do you actually read the posts to that mailing list? (2) <font color=blue>All 12.</font> # Do you find yourself refreshing the mailing list, hoping that something new has arrived? (5) <font color=blue>Who has time?</font> # ... or do you have an automatic notifier, and laugh because you only have to refresh whenever the notifier tells you to? (7) <font color=blue>Thunderbird...</font> # If you have one, did you make it yourself specifically for the Wikipedia mailing lists? (10) # 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) <font color=blue>Hello...Two laptops...</font> # Have you donated money to Wikipedia? (3) <font color=blue>Quite a bit.</font> # Have you wanted to, but been too young to do it? (5) # Have you ever donated one cent to Wikipedia just for fun? (0.01) # Have you ever thought about editing a normal webpage? (3) <font color=blue>Occasionally.</font> # Have you ever '''looked''' for the edit button? (5) <font color=blue>*blush*</font> # Do you try to provide edit summaries when filling out forms on non-Wiki web sites? (5) # Have you ever instinctively reached for the ''edit'' link to correct an unfortunate wording while reading a newspaper or book? (4) <font color=blue>Yes.</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Do you classify links as internal and external on other sites (of course wrongly!) based on the color in your Wikipedia [[meta:Help:Preferences|skin]]? (2) # Have you made "Wikipedia" the name of a [[MUD]] character? (5 points) # Are you surprised when you click on a normal link and it doesn't take you to a Wikipedia article? (1) # Are all of your bookmarks Wikipedia-related? (8) <font color=blue>Most of them.</font> # Have you installed the Wikipedia [[Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]] extension? (5) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Have you installed the extension but found you never ever use it because you know all the details of Wikimarkup by heart anyway? (10) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # 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 [http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ 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) # Do you have the Wikipedia [http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/wikipedia.html widget] on your [[Dashboard (software)|Dashboard]]? (5) # Have you ever wanted to edit a chat or IRC message you just sent? (5)⏎ # Was that in a Wikipedia-related channel? (3) # Have you ever signed a real e-mail with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>? (1) # Have you joined a Wikipedia community on a non-Wikipedia website? (3) <font color=blue>Yep.</font> # Was that in a Wikipedia-related channel? (3) <font color=blue>There are others?</font> # Have you ever signed a real e-mail with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>? (1) <font color=blue>Oh god yes.</font> # Have you joined a Wikipedia community on a non-Wikipedia website? (3) <font color=blue>Oui.</font> # Do you refuse to use social networking sites like [[Facebook (website)|Facebook]] or [[MySpace]] because your Wikipedia user page is "better than that crap"? (8)⏎ <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 88''' </font> ====The Rest of the World==== # Did you scoff at this header because Wikipedia ''is'' the world? (5) # Are you currently in a Wikipedia cult/clan? (20) <font color=blue>TINC.</font> # ... 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) # ...or did they die of something else while in the clan war? (-30, you can't fool us.) # 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) # 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) <font color=blue>I've had students submit assignments to me...</font> # Did it cite an article that you had edited? (10) <font color=blue>...that cited my work here...</font> # ... created? (20) <font color=blue>...yep, even that.</font> # Have you ever seen some of your work from Wikipedia published in a newspaper or other form of press? (50 points for each occurrence) # Have you written your Wikipedia username as your name on homework assignments? (10) # ... because your username is your real name? (7) # Do you take out library books to help you write or edit articles on subjects you know very little of? (4) (contracted; show full) # Do you believe that nearly all of your success in your workplace or school comes from information gained on Wikipedia? (4) # 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) # When you see vandalism in real life, do you think "These must be the type of people that vandalize Wikipedia"? (2) ⏎ ===Wikipedia knowledge and opinion=== # 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)<font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 61''' </font> ===Wikipedia knowledge and opinion=== # Do you know who [[Jimbo Wales]] is? (10) <font color=blue>Who doesn't?</font> # If you don't, did you just look for his article? (5) # Has he ever talked to you on your user talk page? (5) <font color=blue>...and email...and IRC...</font> # ... or are '''you''' Jimbo Wales? (10000) # ... and do you talk to yourself on your user talk page anyway? (5) # Do you know where the Wikimedia Foundation is based? (10) <font color=blue>St. Pete</font> # Have you ever thought about the [[social impact]] of Wikipedia? (10) # Do you think Wikipedia will be better than every other encyclopedia soon? (3) # 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) # Do you consider Wikipedia to be the closest thing to a precursor for "the computer" in ''[[Star Trek]]''? (5) # Do you honor Wikipedia like it is king? (45) <font color=blue>Ad majorem gloriam Jimbo.</font> # Have you ever cheered out loud when you look at the updates on the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Awareness statistics|Awareness Statistics]]? (5) # 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=== # Have you ever taken this quiz more than once simply to correspond with the most recent version? (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) # Did you immediately think of ways to improve this test, or adjust the scores so that they neatly add up to 100? (3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197) # ... such as changing the score of the previous question to π? (1.61803399) # 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) # 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)<font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 82''' </font> ===Meta-questions=== # Have you ever taken this quiz more than once simply to correspond with the most recent version? (2) <font color=blue>Doing it now...</font> # Have you cheated on this test? (20) <font color=blue>Why?</font> # ... to get into the Top 20 below? (5) # Were you surprised that cheating was worth 20 points? (2.5) # Did you immediately think of ways to improve this test, or adjust the scores so that they neatly add up to 100? (3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197) <font color=blue>They haven't added up to 100 in months...</font> # ... such as changing the score of the previous question to p? (1.61803399) # 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) <font color=blue>See above.</font> # Do you find it funny that all of these scores are mathematically-important numbers? (6.67E-34) # Have you edited this test? (15) <font color=blue>Yes.</font> # ... and then taken it again? (4) <font color=blue>...</font> # ... so you could remain in denial about your affliction? (8) # ... or so you could claim bragging rights? (12) <font color=blue><tt>:D</tt></font> # ... 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) <!-- yes I am cheap -Ilyanep || No, you're not. I get 55 points now! — alerante --> # Did you ever take the old test? (10 plus whatever your score was on the old test) # 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 more addicted you've become? (10) # Have you ever clicked back in order to score a question because you forgot it? (1) # Did you notice that there is a different number of questions in the automated version? (2) <font color=blue>Yes, hence why I stopped using it...</font> # Were you annoyed to find out you didn't have to be adding up your score manually? (2) <font color=blue>Out of date...</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Heh.</font> # ... without a calculator? (30) # ... even though there was one right in front of you? (5) # ... solely in your head? (125) # ... then checked by adding again from bottom to top? (1) # ... in fear that you might be challenged on your statement of score at some future ArbCom hearing? (23) <font color=blue>Point of this page...</font> #... or do you have parental controls on your browser that your parents set up that doesn'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) # If you have a web page, do you proudly display your score from this test on it? (5) <font color=blue>Userpage...</font> # 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) <font color=blue>Heh.</font> # 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) # Did you realize you've just read — with academic interest! — a list of almost 500 questions and added up your score? (2) <font color=blue>500?</font> # ... 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) # 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) # Were you extremely addicted early on (score above 300 in your first three months)? (39.93) <font color=blue>Quite possibly.</font> # Did you delay taking this test because you were too busy editing other Wikipedia article(s)? (5) # Have you wanted to move this page to conform to Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Lowercase second and subsequent words|naming conventions]]? (5) # ...have you done so? (15) # ...did you just check to see if there was a redirect? (2) # 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) <!-- ... or do you actually know it's infinity? (5) --> # Do you have something you should be doing, and are procrastinating by reading all of these questions? (20)⏎ ⏎ ===[[Image:Toolbar.png]]=== # Can you memorize the '''Bold Formatting''' Wiki markup? (1) # ... the ''Italic'' markup? (1) # ... the [[internal link]] markup? (1.5) <font color=blue>Haven't checked the watchlist yet...</font> <font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 297.73''' </font> ===[[Image:Toolbar.png]]=== # Can you memorize the '''Bold Formatting''' Wiki markup? (1) <font color=blue>?</font> # ... the ''Italic'' markup? (1) <font color=blue>??</font> # ... the [[internal link]] markup? (1.5) <font color=blue>Are we in kindergarten here?</font> # ... the [http://www.factbug.org/cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1176876 external link] markup? (1.5) # ... the Level 2 Headline markup? (0.25) # ... the Level 3 Headline markup? (0.25) # ... the Level 4 Headline markup? (0.25) # Do you think that there is a level 5 Headline markup? (0.25) <!-- You are correct if you do, my friend. ~~Fredil Yupigo--font color=blue>Hello...</font> # Can you memorize the embedded image Wiki markup? (2) # ... the media file link markup? (2.5) # ... the Mathematical Formula markup? (2.5) # ... the nowiki markup? (3) # ... the Signature with timestamp markup? (.00002) # ... the Horizontal Line markup? (2) # Can you recall what it says after the text "Horizontal Line" if you move your mouse over that section of the toolbar? (5) # Did you check it just now? <font color=white>(-5)</font> (5, just for being clever) # Finally, can you memorize the Redirect Page markup? (3) # Did you realize that the above is actually a question? (50) ⏎ ===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 science|health worker]]: # Do you vigorously complain that articles are not from the [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|NPOV]]? (0.213) # Have you ever [[Wikipedia:Requested pictures|requested]] an image of a chemical compound?(0.5) # Do you know what [[Larry Sanger]] did?(1) # Have you ever argued with Larry Sanger?(1) # Have you edited/created pages in three or more different language Wikipedias?(0.5) # ...FIVE or more different language Wikipedias?(0.6) # 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) # Have you ever removed outdated questions from this test?(0.2315) # Have you ever neglected to maintain personal hygiene in favor of Wikipedia?(1) # Have you ever broken up with a significant other, because they didn't think the wiki was "all that"?(0.9) # Have you ever had an edit conflict - '''with yourself'''?(0.5 and a psychiatrist's session) # 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) # Do you create your own Wikipedia [[neologism]]s?(0.5) # 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) # ... and then it got deleted by VfD?(0.1, you should have expected it) # When reading the "Series of Unfortunate Events" novels by Lemony Snicket, do you just KNOW that the mysterious acronym VFD stands for "Votes for Deletion?"(0.01213) # 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) # Have you added RAM to your machine so you could copy more text to the clipboard? (0.0101110101) # ...Edit long pages?(0.1) # ...Load pages faster?(0.2) # ...Open multiple pages at the same time?(0.3) # ...while transwikiing content?(0.4) # ...to read talk and article at the same time?(0.5) # ...to copy content to or from other articles?(0.6) # ...to keep an eye out for vandalism while writing new articles?(0.7) # Do you have other pages open ''right now'' editing them?(0.8) # Do you use tabbed browsing to open multiple wiki pages at the same time?(0.9) # Have you edited Wikipedia pages during intermittent power outages?(0.12354) # Are you considering the purchase of an uninterruptible power supply solely because you 'lost a good edit' while doing so?(0.2) # Did you actually buy it?(0.3452) # The best one you could afford?(1) # Are you eager to add questions to this list?(0.4) # Are you ''proud'' to be a Wikipediholic?(0.34521277653423) # Do you sometimes [[Sweating|perspire]] profusely when editing talkpages?(0.139794235 and a chill pill) # 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) # Did you interrupt taking this quiz in order to click on any of the interspersed links?(0.1023) # ... or finish this quiz and scrolled back through the page to go to all of those links?(0.00001) # ... or open the links in background tabs or windows?(0.032) # Do you keep track of every vandal you catch?(0.5) # '''HAVE YOU LOST ALL TRACES OF SANITY BECAUSE OF OVEREXPOSURE TO WIKIPEDIA?''' (1) # Do you use an Internet browser to contribute? (0.0000000000000000000...01) # 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) # 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) # Did you take this test, lose the results, and took the test again despite its lengthyness? (5) # Did you acually take the whole test without scrolling to the bottom to see how many questions there were? (5) ===Interpreting your score=== Edited becuase... it just wasn't right. {| style="background-color: transparent" |- |style="text-align: right"|–∞ |– |style="text-align: right"|100 |style="padding-left: 2em"|You are a [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|clueless newbie]] or a vandal. |- |style="text-align: right"|101 |– |style="text-align: right"|200 |style="padding-left: 2em"|You are an IP address user or a sock puppet. |- |style="text-align: right"|201 |– |style="text-align: right"|375 |style="padding-left: 2em"|A well-balanced attitude that may benefit by spending more time on Wikipedia. |- |style="text-align: right"|376 |– |style="text-align: right"|600 |style="padding-left: 2em"|This is the optimal, most productive range. |- |style="text-align: right"|601 |– |style="text-align: right"|800 |style="padding-left: 2em"|You are slightly overdoing yourself. Take a wikibreak for a couple of days. |- |style="text-align: right"|801 |– |style="text-align: right"|1025 |style="padding-left: 2em"|You are addicted to Wikipedia. |- |style="text-align: right"|1026 |– |style="text-align: right"|1250 |style="padding-left: 2em"|Scores in this range are commonly fatal. |- |style="text-align: right"|1251 |– |style="text-align: right"|1499.999999999... |style="padding-left: 2em"|You played a major part in creating Wikipedia or are a ghost. Good job.... |- |style="text-align: right"|1500 |– |style="text-align: right"|∞ |style="padding-left: 2em"|Congratulations. You are now listed in the [[Guinness Book of Records]]. |} == Top 20 scores == If you get in, along with the score, add <nowiki>{{Top20}}</nowiki> to your page. It will come out as {{Top20}}{{-}} {| border="1" cellpadding="1" class="wikitable" |'''Ranking''' |'''Score''' |'''User Name''' |'''Comment(s)''' |- |1st | 5618.011957144904 |[[User: PHDrillSergeant|PHDrillSergeant]] |I answered this test honestly. Now I think I'm going to take vacation. |- |2nd |2800 <!-- Actual figure: 2802.207528775311--> |[[User:Shreshth91|Shreshth91]] ([[User talk:Shreshth91|talk]]) |I think I'll just curl up and... make a few more edits |- |3rd |2472.<small>257 303 785 309 ish</small> |[[User:Alerante|alerante]] |Tested on <span class="plainlinksneverexpand">[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test|oldid=50655505}} revision 50655505]</span>. Disclaimer: I've <del>edited</del> completely reorganized the test. |- |4th |2343 <!-- Actual figure is 2343.3067578900004 --> |[[user:Whopper|Whopper]] |Wow, I think I'm too addicted, I won lots of "free stuff, and got a fuzzy feeling inside |- |5th |2046.6019539077613423 <!-- Actual figure: 2031.010001 --> |[[User:Jorcoga|Jorcoga]]([[User talk:Jorcoga|talk]]) |I'm stuck to my computer chair! |- |6th |2031 <!-- Actual figure: 2031.010001 --> |[[User:Klassykittychick|Releeshan]]([[User talk:Klassykittychick|talk]]) |I think I first knew I was addicted when mold started growing on my fingers.... |- |7th |1984.8018166435897 |[[User:The Gerg|The]] [[User_talk:The_Gerg|Gerg]] |Victory is Mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |- |8th |1911.247239 |[[User:Zappa.jake|zappa]] |Revision #47893023 - 6th place and still no administrator nominations... |- |9th |1847.6737836535894 |[[User:Pronoun|Pronoun]] |All I want to say is that I really like to waste away on Wikipedia. |- |10th |1801 |[[User:SushiGeek|SushiGeek]] |I'm determined to stay on this score list...this time I didn't take the automated version! :-P |- |11th |1777.47563754378 (first three months!) |'''[[User:Fredil Yupigo|Fr]][[User:Fredil Yupigo/Esperanza|<font color="green">e</font>]][[User Talk:Fredil Yupigo|<font color="#009ACD">ddie</font>]]''' |Automated version. Second Top20 test and I'm higher by 400. Wow, I've gotta take a Wikibreak! Like [[User:Alerante|alerante]], I've also totally reorganized the test. |- |12th |1656+ε |[[User:Sj|Sj]] |(denying the life sentence question) |- |13th |1555.7710219915505 |[[User:Computerjoe|Computerjoe]] |Could have scored worse... |- |14th |1549.837611 |[[User:Jaxl|Jaxl]] |Took it again manually, with a [[TI-83 series#TI-83 Plus|TI-83 Plus]] calculator. |- |15th | 1544.7085215619433 |[[User:Adolphus79|Adolphus79]] |Automated version... think it may be broken, I can't be that addicted... |- |16th |1518.94 |[[User:Sceptre|Sceptre]] |I retake it, and I'm doubly addicted :( |- |17th |1418.38 |[[User:Ian13|Ian13]] |Yes, all those crazy numbers somehow cancelled out! I'm very scared... ([{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test|oldid=55258636}} rev#]) |- |18th |1400 <!--Actual score:1397.86--> |[[User:Weirdy|Weirdy]] |Cheated by using a calculator |- |19th |1369.57264804578 |[[User:IAMTHEEGGMAN|IAMTHEEGGMAN]] |Haha... 2nd time around I'm higher... by alot... (by hand) |- |20th |1347.154368532753 |[[User:^demon|^demon]] |I took the automated version. Cuz I rock like that. |} {{Wikipediholicism}} <br> *[[MediaZilla:4900|Bug 4900: Wikipediholic reminder user CSS/JavaScript]], referenced above *{{tl|Wikipediholic}} -- Usage: <nowiki>{{Wikipediholic|(your score here)}}</nowiki> *{{tl|User Wikipediholic}} — an alternative template about the size of a [[Wikipedia:Babel|Babel]] box *[http://merphant.net/cgi-bin/wikiholic.cgi Automated version] *[http://merphant.net/wikiholic Wikiholic, a script to generate the automated test] *[[Media:Wikitest.html|Copy of Wikitest.html]] [[Category:Wikipediholics| ]] <!-- interwiki --> [[cs:Wikipedie:Jste wikipediholik?]] [[de:Wikipedia:あなたはウィキペディア中毒でしょうかテスト]] [[es:Wikipedia:¿Eres un wikiadicto?]] [[fr:Wikipédia:Test : Êtes-vous wikipédiholique ?]] [[hu:Wikipédia:Wikifüggés]] [[hr:Wikipedia:Jesam li wikiholičar?]] [[it:Wikipedia:Scherzi e STUBidaggini/Wikidipendenza]] [[ja:Wikipedia:あなたはウィキペディア中毒でしょうかテスト]] [[pl:Wikipedia:Czy jesteś wikipedioholikiem]] [[sk:Wikipédia:Ste wikipediholik?]] [[sv:Wikipedia:Wikiholism]] [[th:วิกิพีเดีย:แบบทดสอบอาการติดวิกิพีเดีย]] [[zh:Wikipedia:测试:您是维基百科狂吗?]]<font color=blue>'''Subtotal: 71.50''' </font> ---- <font color=blue><big>'''Total: 2748.11'''</big></font> All content in the above text box is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license Version 4 and was originally sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=55318990.
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