In North American, we pay a flat rate for local phone service. Thus, I can wiki to my heart's content... as long as I don't care about missing phone calls... --
Stephen Gilbert
I got three phone lines! My problem isn't people missing phone calls... it's other household members wanting to use the net also... --
SJK
SJK: For that price you could get
DSL or
cable modem service and use a gateway box to let your entire home network access the same connection. --
Damian Yerrick
- We in Australia (such as SJK) don't have DSL - we have the inferior ADSL. And it is extremely expensive and notoriously unreliable. Most people still use dial-up connections as a result. - MMGB
Price isn't the only barrier. DSL and cable Internet connections aren't available in all areas. For example, let's say... oh, how about mine? --
Stephen Gilbert
Shouldn't 'Interpreting your score' be in percents instead of points ? --
Taw
I had set the points so they totalled 100. But it seems they have been changed again.
Yes, there's a continual inflation drift. Current total is 143 if I'm not mistaken. I guess the situation is hopeless... Even if we counted in percentage, the total would have to be maintained automatically, as people will probably often just forget about updating it. IMO. - FvdP 11:13 Sep 5, 2002 (PDT)
I'm sorry, but I have some serious issues with this article - has the methodology for this test been documented elsewhere? Why are there no external references? The point scoring system seems very arbitrary and contrived. I really don't think the Wikipedia should be citing reports of testing systems with such a poorly defined semantic structure. - MMGB, who scored 59.
How many points for inadvertently triggering an edit war and a vandalism report, not to mention inspiring a Wikipedia standards page, all in one's first week on Wikipedia? :-) --
Cayzle
Why this emphasis on
Recent Changes? My score would be a lot higher if it were replaced by 'your watchlist' everywhere around. --
Andre Engels
- See also : Wikipediholic
I haven't laughed so hard in years.
Ezra Wax, ROTFL
Though I'd also like Recent Changes replaced by My Watchlist everywhere, that would increase my score too high. 43 is already three high for a newbie. -- Paddu
When I'd gone thru the test I hadn't dreamt (Sorry, dreamed) of Wikipedia. Soon after that I dreamt of it for 3 days in succession. -- Paddu
I seem to remember broken grammar on #4 in the bonus questions, which would have been more appropriate. As it is, you could say "he co-created wikipedia with Jimmy Wales" or "he was influential in establishing NPOV," but the question originally referred in a sly way to the CARROTS vandal.
Koyaanis Qatsi
- You mean the vandal used this kind of broken grammar? And knowing about this means you are more likely to be wikipediholic, or what? - Patrick 13:26 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, the vandal had broken grammar. And knowing it doesn't mean you're more wikipediholic; that's why someone moved it to a separate section so it doesn't influence the score--someone could be a wikipediholic that arrived on scene too late to catch the CARROTS vandal at work. Koyaanis Qatsi
- Ah, March 2002, before my time. "Carrots, you can eat them in deserts and jail." - Patrick 14:07 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
So ... err ... is a score of 79 after only a week of using the site considered bad or damning? --
TimmyD 06:57 May 6, 2003 (UTC)
- Well you've got a fairly bad case of it, I think. It took me three months to reach 58, I can give it up any time, honest.... -- Arwel 23:23 May 8, 2003 (UTC)
Writing the software only gets me 10 points? How about editing articles by typing queries at the SQL server? --
LDC
- I think it depends on how much time you spend writing the software :) MB 21:23 15 May 2003 (UTC)
- I think that gives you 3 points per edit :) MB 21:47 15 May 2003 (UTC)
A 122...Wow, only half a month ago I had 55 :). I guess sysophood kills your brain :)
ilyanep 17:59 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)