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If you're not sure whether you are a Wikipediholic or are unsure about the amount of Wikipedihol you took, then you should take this test. Be prepared to take at least 17.5 minutes because there are about 200 questions. 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 Wikipedihol you had! 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 Wikipediholism can be cured, or at least controlled to some degree. New questions should be added as #ENTRY (point value, additional notes) in order to be compatible with the automated version. There's an automated version if you don't want to add up the score yourself; legacy and modern versions are also available.

The test

1. Have you ever used Misplaced Pages before taking this quiz? (5 - welcome!)
2. Did you find this page? (3)
3. Did you specifically search for this page? (2)
   • And rummaged through various user pages for a link? (3)
   • Because many Wikipedians have advised you to take this test for your own safety? (5)
   • Do you have this page on your watchlist or bookmarked so you don't have to search for it? (3)
4. Have you taken this test before? (1)
   • Do you plan on taking it again? (2)
   • Will you document the test results on your user page? (1)
     • Are you providing a manipulated score on your user page? (3)
5. Do you typically use Misplaced Pages at least once a week? (1)
   • At least once a day? (2)
     • More than an hour a day? (5)
6. Is more than 60% of your time online spent at Misplaced Pages? (20)
   • 75%? (50)
     • Exactly 100%? (100 - but how do you cite sources?!)
7. Did you stop using your printed encyclopedia and start using this one instead? (2)
8. Do you start new articles? (2)
   • Do you delete new articles? (4)
9. Do you read Misplaced Pages on a public wireless Internet connection? (1)
   • Do you edit Misplaced Pages articles while on such a connection? (3)
     • Is that connection in a restaurant? (5)
       • Do you edit Misplaced Pages while waiting for your meal? (8)
         • During your meal? (20)
           • One hand on the keyboard, and one on your food? (100—that's it, we're driving you down to the next Wikiclinic for treatment.)
             • Do you stop eating to edit Misplaced Pages and then throw your meal away, because it spoiled while you were editing? (50 more points—you're a junkie)
       • Did you pick that restaurant because of the free wifi? (5 more)
10. Are you on an aircraft with wireless access to the Internet during the flight? (5)
    • Because you can edit Misplaced Pages on it? (25)
      • Are you eating your meal on said flight while taking this test or writing an article? (40)
        • Did you choose this flight over another because of the access to Misplaced Pages (an additional point for every $10 more you paid for this flight than the one you would have taken)? (100)
11. Do you talk in Misplaced Pages markup code? (3)
12. Do you request that articles be created, improved, expanded, deleted, etc.? (2)
    • Do you fulfill such requests? (4)
      • Do you wish you could fulfill such requests? (4 - go try it!)
13. Have you requested a new software feature or reported a bug in the last few weeks? (2)
14. Do you make redirect pages? (1)
15. Do you think you're using a significant portion of Misplaced Pages's bandwidth? (5)
16. Do you click on "Random Page" at least once a day (or just because you're bored)? (3)
    • When you click "Random Page" do you, more often than not, find an article you have edited? (5)
      • Written? (10)
17. Have you ever gotten the same random page twice in a row? (3)
18. Are you upset that you only got 3 points for that last question, even though the odds of getting the same random article two times in a row are about one in 6,929,732? (1; that really is a ripoff)
19. Do you check new pages every week? (1)
    • Every day? (3)
      • Every hour? (6 - nice)
20. Do you check Recent Changes every day? (2)
    • More than ten times a day? (5)
21. Do you have Recent Changes bookmarked? (1)
    • Set as your start page? (10)
22. Do you check your watchlist almost every day? (1)
    • More than ten times a day? (4)
23. Do you have your watchlist set as your start page? (4)
24. Do you have more than 50 items in your watchlist? (2)
    • More than 100? (4)
      • More than 1000? (10)
25. Do you look at Did You Know, In The News, or other features of the main page daily? (5)
26. Have you learned a new language or improved in one you already knew for the primary purpose of being able to read the Misplaced Pages in that language? (6)
    • Was it useful when you went to a country where that language is spoken? (12)
27. Have you joined a wikiproject? (1)
    • More than 5? (3)
      • More than 10? (5)
        • Just to get the points? (-10)
28. Do you occasionally promote Misplaced Pages, either in person or by mentioning it on social media, IRC, forums or message boards, web pages, mail signatures, etc.? (2 for each promotion)
    • Have you gotten someone to join and start editing? (10)
29. Did you buy a Misplaced Pages T-shirt? (5)
    • Specifically to get the 5 points? (10)
      • Prior to the existence of shop.wikipedia.org (only physical shirts count)? (20)
30. Do you find yourself writing regular text using Misplaced Pages link and layout conventions? (3)
31. Is something you have thought was important—such as social life, career, or studies—suffering because you spend so much time on Misplaced Pages? (10)
32. Do you spend time editing Misplaced Pages every time you get your hands on a computer? (10)
    • Even if you have some urgent work on your computer? (15)
33. Do you sneak mobile devices into class because you want to read or edit Misplaced Pages? (4)
    • Did the teacher catch you using your mobile device and punish you? (10)
    • Or did the teacher commend you for reading/editing Misplaced Pages? (30)
      • Because the teacher is a Wikipedian? (55)
34. Have you spent time editing Misplaced Pages instead of working on an important assignment (add half the percentage points missed on assignment to score)? (3)
    • In class? (5)
35. Have you ever failed a class because of Misplaced Pages? (We will pass you!) (100)
36. Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Misplaced Pages? (9)
    • Did you not get ANY sleep last night because of Misplaced Pages? (100 - we commend you for being that dedicated)
37. Are you sleeping during the day (as of 8 a.m.) because you edited Misplaced Pages overnight (add overslept time in hours)? (5)
38. 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)
39. Do you judge people you know offline partly on the basis of their Misplaced Pages contributions? (6)
40. Do you think quality of contributions to Misplaced Pages is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (17 and a crash course in dating)
41. Do you subscribe to a Wikimedia mailing list (e.g., WikiEN-l, Wikimedia-l)? (2)
    • Do you actually read that mailing list? (20)
      • Do you find yourself refreshing the mailing list, hoping that something new has arrived? (5)
42. Have you ever had a notification on a social media website and assumed it was from one of your Misplaced Pages edits being reverted? (4)
43. Do you argue that contributions to Misplaced Pages are "productive" or "useful"—unlike "wasting time" playing games or watching football? (5)
    • Do you tell someone this whenever they do any of the things mentioned above? (10)
44. Did you donate money to Misplaced Pages? (3)
    • Or do you refuse to do so because you have a personal vendetta against the Wikimedia Foundation (for example, due to the Fram controversy)? (10)
45. Do you wake up in the night in a cold sweat wondering whether your latest submission was truly written from the NPOV? (6)
46. Have you ever met up with another Wikipedian offline? (2)
47. Have you ever had sex with another Wikipedian? Sock puppet accounts don't count. (10 - ...)
48. Have you bought a second monitor to edit more efficiently? (10)
49. Have you ever looked for the link on an ordinary Web page? (3)
50. Have you ever instinctively searched for the link to correct an unfortunate wording while reading a newspaper or book? (4)
51. Have you ever edited an article on Misplaced Pages while paying long distance charges to connect to the Internet? (5)
52. Do you make edits while under the influence and find that nobody reverts your changes? (1)
53. Have you ever edited Misplaced Pages while taking a bath because you found it made the experience even more relaxing? (5 - hope your editing device is waterproof!)
54. Have you ever publicly declared that you've quit Misplaced Pages but found yourself lingering about anyway? (7)
55. Have you ever requested to be a sysop? (2)
56. Are you a sysop? (10)
57. Do you actually have sysop powers on more than one Misplaced Pages? (20)
58. Are you a bureaucrat? (30)
59. Are you a steward? (50)
60. Did you translate the Mediawiki software? (3)
    • Did you program part of it? (20)
61. Do you edit articles in your sleep? (17)
    • Do you curse out loud upon waking and realizing that you have to make all those edits over again? (2)
      • Or are the edits actually still there*? (100 points and the Randi prize)
62. Do you edit Misplaced Pages on a laptop? (1)
    • Did your laptop's fan go on by itself while you were on Misplaced Pages? (2)
      • Did your laptop melt (or show serious signs of melting) while you were editing Misplaced Pages? (100 points and a new computer)
63. Do you edit Misplaced Pages with a mobile phone or tablet? (2)
    • Because you can't wait until you get access to a computer to add some obscure fact to Misplaced Pages? (4)
64. Have you edited before 6:30 a.m.? (6)
    • Until 4 a.m.? (2)
      • Until 6 a.m.? (4)
        • Until 8 a.m. or later? (7)
65. After reading the last question, did you give yourself 13 points because it is always 4, 6, or 8 a.m. somewhere? (13 points for cleverness)
66. Do you edit Misplaced Pages at night (i.e., after midnight), consuming drinks to keep you up? (2)
    • Did you manage to stay up without any drinks? (5)
67. Do you hold Misplaced Pages Nights, that is, nights when you intentionally go to bed late, after spending n hours editing Misplaced Pages? (5)
    • Do you get people to join you in such an event? (10)
68. When you see abbreviations such as TW, GA and FA in real life, do you interpret them with their Misplaced Pages meanings? (5)
69. Have you frowned upon a decision that was made in real life by a vote, because polling is not a substitute for discussion? (1)
70. Do you have an urge to edit this nonexistent article? (1)
71. Did you immediately try to create the above nonexistent article? (5)
72. Did you actually create it before it was protected from creation? (25)
73. From how many devices did you visit Misplaced Pages in the past 30 days? (1 per device)
74. Do you use terms like "dab", "lk", "sp", "revert", "blanking", "content", "NPOV", or other terms in their Misplaced Pages sense in unrelated contexts? (2)
    • Did you have to search for any of those terms because you didn't know what they meant? (-3)
75. Do you scramble to G11 advertisements off wiki and then realize you're not on Misplaced Pages? (5)
    • Did you do it to have a better CSD log? (10)
76. Have you ever thought about the social impact of Misplaced Pages? (1)
77. Has your Misplaced Pages contribution style/philosophy (e.g., WikiGnome, deletionism, inclusionism,*) shaped your real life personality and philosophy? (10)
78. Do you have to exercise much self-restraint to act casual in a conversation when someone mentions Misplaced Pages? (5)
    • Do you often fail? (10)
79. Have you ever browsed Misplaced Pages while communicating with your significant other? (5)
80. Have you told your significant other something about Misplaced Pages during a conversation? (10)
    • Were they impressed? (5)
      • Or bored? (-5)
81. Do you have NPOV issues with the negative score attributed to the previous questions? (5)
82. Are you surprised when you click on a normal link and it doesn't take you to a Misplaced Pages article? (1)
83. Have you broken some sort of rule just to visit Misplaced Pages? (6)
84. Have you spotted a typo above and now have a crushing urge to edit that typo but dare not edit it because you won't remember where you read up to? (3)
    • Did you correct the typo anyway? (15)
85. Do you use the shortcut keys when using Misplaced Pages? (2)
    • Do you hit Alt+X (or its equivalent on your keyboard) more than any other shortcut key? (3)
86. 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 Misplaced Pages so that you will get tired and have something relaxing to fill your mind when you go back to bed? (2)
    • Did it work? (4)
87. Have you, in your impatience for others to edit an article, brought an article all the way from a stub to featured article status? (10)
88. Have you ever signed any email with ~~~~ (point for every email you have)? (1)
89. Have you ever been reading a book and found information which you immediately added to a Misplaced Pages article? (3)
90. Do you think your score is too high and maybe you'll do something about it after "a few more edits"? (6)
91. Did you create an automated version of this test so you wouldn't have to add up your score? (100, and go respond to some bug reports)
92. Have you ever taken this quiz more than once simply to correspond with the most recent version? (12)
93. 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 Misplaced Pages? (5)
    • And have you paid full price or even bought it costlier from a second-hand retailer for it? (7.5)
94. Have you joined a Misplaced Pages(ns) community on a non-Misplaced Pages website? (30)
95. Have you ever argued with anyone over Misplaced Pages's accuracy? (5)
    • Did you win? (10)
    • Did you win, but you were the one saying it was not accurate? (-20)
96. Do you find yourself caught up in Misplaced Pages discussions a lot? (5)
    • More than discussions on other topics? (15)
97. Do you know who Jimbo Wales is? (1)
    • Have you ever visited his user page? (2)
      • Did you sign the petition against his beard? (5)
98. Have you made more than 10 edits in a month? (1)
    • 100? (3)
      • 1,000? (6)
99. Have you made more than 500 total edits? (1)
    • 1,000? (2)
      • 10,000? (8)
        • 100,000? (20)
100. Have you ever accidentally edited Misplaced Pages while logged out? (1)
     • Were you horrified because it didn't count towards your edit count? (10)
101. Have you ever tried editing Misplaced Pages using more than one device? (5)
     • At the same time? (9)
102. Do you feel ashamed if you performed fewer edits than in the previous month? (2)
     • Do you strive to resolve this mistake by vowing to make more edits this month? (3)
103. Did you ever get repetitive strain injury from refreshing your watchlist? (10)
     • Do you think it's unfair that you only got ten points for that, when the damage was irreparable? (1)
     • Do you know there's a "Live updates" button now? (2 for dedication)
104. Does Misplaced Pages appear as a recommendation when you type the characters "en" or "wi" into the address bar? (1)
     • The character "e" or "w"? (3)
       • Even when you don't type anything at all? (5)
     • Does Wikipediocracy? (-20)
     • Does Uncyclopedia?... you traitor. (-34)
     • Does Encyclopedia Dramatica? (-42)
105. Do you generally have several Misplaced Pages-related tabs open in your browser? (1)
     • More than 100? (10)
106. Do you have a Misplaced Pages-related YouTube channel? (10)
107. Do you have Spotify or other music platforms open to listen to while you edit Misplaced Pages? (5)
     • Do you listen to that music platform for the sole purpose of editing Misplaced Pages? (10)
108. Do you want to overtake Steven Pruitt as the Misplaced Pages editor with the most edits? (10)
     • Have you seriously tried? (10)
       • Did you give up? (-20)
109. Have you ever watched a video longer than ten minutes on Misplaced Pages? (2)
     • Longer than thirty minutes? (5)
       • Longer than an hour? (15)
         • ...two hours? (30)
110. Have you ever killed someone so that you can use a non-free image of them? (100 for creativity)
111. Have you ever dreamed about Misplaced Pages? (6)
     • Have you ever had a Misplaced Pages-related nightmare? (6)
112. Do you have the urge to edit other people’s user pages? (3)
     • Did you actually do it? (5)
       • Was it counted as vandalism? (-10)
       • Or did the user thank you for it? (10)
         • Was it another user that wasn’t involved in the edit that thanked you? (20)
113. Do you rely on Misplaced Pages to know what day of the month it is? (10)
     • ...week? (20)
       • ...year? (100)
114. Do you have access to The Misplaced Pages Library? (5)
     • Have you ever used The Misplaced Pages Library? (5)
       • ...And have you ever used it to actually improve Misplaced Pages? (10)

Interpreting your score

Score range	Description
-1 and under	You must be a vandal!
0–9	You must have done nothing.
10–100	A well-balanced attitude that may benefit from spending more time here.
101–150	This is the optimal, most productive range.
151–250	You are addicted to Misplaced Pages.
251–450	You're a pro.
451–650	You are a candidate for rollback rights.
651–750	You are a candidate for admin rights.
751–850	You're a candidate for bureaucrat, rollback AND admin rights.
851–950	Were you a Nupedian?
951–1099	You're a candidate for steward rights.
1100–5000	You either played a part in creating Misplaced Pages or are a ghost. Good job!
5001–∞	WP:AGF and WP:NPA forbid us to accuse you of cheating at this test.

Bonus questions

You don't get any 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:

• Have you ever argued with a functionary?
• Do you use your own name or some obscure nick (ScrofulousToad, Airigance 99, etc.)?
• Have you ever removed outdated questions from this test?
• Have you ever neglected to maintain personal hygiene in favor of Misplaced Pages?
• Have you ever broken up with a significant other, because they didn't think Misplaced Pages was "all that"?
• Have you ever had an edit conflict—with yourself?
• Do you create your own Misplaced Pages words? (like "Wikidicted?")
• Are you upset that
  • ...you wrote an article on Misplaced Pages addiction and someone said it sounded "like the grammar and speech patterns of a Wikipedian"?
  • ...it got deleted by AfD?
• 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?
  • are those other tabs saving edits and/or loading pages, right now?
    • all of them are either loading or saving a page?
• Have you edited Misplaced Pages pages during intermittent power outages?
  • Are you considering the purchase of an uninterruptible power supply solely because you "lost a good edit" while doing so?
• When someone says "dab" outside of a Misplaced Pages context, do you immediately think "disambiguation"?
• Have you ever gone on a 24-hour edit spree?
• Do you wish for the end of the world so WP:Beyond the end can happen?

1. For Wikipedians in the future; nobody dabs anymore.

See also

• Misplaced Pages:Recovering from Wikipediholism
• Misplaced Pages:Clinic for Wikipediholics
• Other old test versions
• List your result

Userbox

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

• Wikipediholism