What's to stop people from editing Wikipedia articles to shorten their click paths?
Sportsmanship, perhaps?
The Wikipedia Game
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#12Or, How To Think Like A Link
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#13What's to stop people from editing Wikipedia articles to shorten their click paths?
Most likely time.
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#14There was a link on HN a few days ago to this site[1] that automates that process, so you can cheat :)
[1]http://www.xltd.com/WikiMindMap/WikiPath.htm (but it seems like it does not work right now)
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#15There are actually quite a few such sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game
It's one of these concepts that keeps poping up independently at many places (there used to be edit wars at Wikipedia pages about manual versions of this game with many people claiming they invented it :).
I did one myself long ago:
It was one of the first and it got pretty popular for a brief period of time.
The trouble with such sites is that you have to babysit them because they will get broken when Wikipedia changes.
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#16I'm the guy making this game, thanks for playing!
Got any feedback? Thanks.
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#17This is worse than tvtropes.
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#18Okay the implementation of this is really well done. It had everything I was expecting an automated version of this game would have. My one complaint is that the frame for the game seemed quite slow compared to normal scrolling on Wikipedia (Just checked and yes there is a noticeable lag in scrolling in Chrome on Windows). This is some what frustrating in a game designed for speed!
One other piece of feedback -- maybe hide click paths in the left hand nav until the user has marked some sort of "given up" button for current race? It would be nice to see the active players list on the home page too (I would have started a lot faster and with less hesitation had I known X amount of people were playing just then).
Thanks for the great feedback!
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#19A similar game I like to play is with Foursquare; keep clicking through friends and locations to get from one location to another around the world.
That's pretty awesome. So similar to the general idea of the Wiki Game, yet different in practice.
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#20I've always thought it would be fun to play a "black hat" wikipedia game. You would register an account, and then proceed to make false edits throughout the site.
To get scores, we'd take all of the edits for each account and multiply the brazenness/funniness of the edit by the number of pageviews you got before the edit was reversed.
The game ends when you get banned.