Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by justinbach » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 5:02 AM UTC

Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game
wikiquiz.heroku.com

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

#2

Post by carbocation » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 5:30 AM UTC

Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-...

Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by TenJack » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 6:55 AM UTC

I have been considering using images from wikipedia in a project that is much different than this but I was wondering: is it okay to embed the images so that they load from wikipedia, or would you need to download them and save them to your own server? This might be called inline linking?

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by kevinburke » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 7:03 AM UTC

I tried it three times and twice loaded images that are a part of any Wikipedia page, like the W with the globe in the corner.

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by gojomo » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 7:10 AM UTC

Nice. May want to rule out images that are too common (the search magnifier) or routine/small (nationality flags, though I got most of those right).

Also, especially after answering, I'd like to click through to the real article to see the image in context -- so it's be nice to provide that link.

It might be interesting to use the same corpus in a different challenge -- for example, five articles and five pictures, match each to the right article.

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by rimantas » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 8:45 AM UTC

carbocation wrote: post #2

Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-... Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?

4 time of 5 I got some icon :(

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by noibl » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 8:51 AM UTC

It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by tomjen3 » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 9:36 AM UTC

Interesting, but you need to have the correct appear below the try another link (so it doesn't move when correct fades away).

And please filter for icons.

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by justinbach » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 4:58 PM UTC

rimantas wrote: post #6

carbocation wrote: post #2

Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-... Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?

4 time of 5 I got some icon :(

Yeah, I definitely submitted this a bit early. I've added a fair amount of icon detection (no more search icons or books with question marks) and I've overhauled the interface so it's ajaxy and a good bit more fun to play. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Wikiquiz: a wikipedia-driven game

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Post by justinbach » Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 4:59 PM UTC

noibl wrote: post #7

It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists

That's a great idea. Right now it's using Wikipedia's random article generator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) to drive content, but it would be cool to group by a given category.