‘WikiWars’: Did You Know There’s a Thing Such as Competitive Wikipedia Searching? (And There’s Video)
- Posted on June 15, 2012 at 10:47am by
Liz Klimas
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Welcome to the ultimate in nerd sports-dom. WikiWars: a form of competitive Wikipedia searching.
Here’s how it works. Two players in a face-off are given a topic on the site that they must arrive at by only clicking through hyperlinks from the Wikipedia page they are already on. WikiHow has more detailed instructions of how to play:
Someone has to click the “Random Article” button on the side bar of the site. For the first game it is random, but for subsequent games it is the winner of the preceding game. Everyone else then navigates to that page and keeps it as a separate window or tab. This is known as the master page
Everyone has to open another window/tab and open a “Random Article” on Wikipedia.org
Without using the keyboard at all you must navigate to the first random page (master page.) You also cannot use the “Back” button, the Find Function, or the menu bar on the left side of the website. This is done by clicking on the hyperlinked text in the article. NOTE* It is acceptable to use the back button to get out of a page with no links in the article.
Upon completion of a round the winner must show everyone his history by clicking “Back” until the player goes to the original page he started at. This helps prevent cheating.
As an example of a match in action, check out this video by thegregorybrothers:
For example, the WikiWarriors in the video must start on “hair gel” and see how can make it to “Sunbeam Bread” without breaking any of the Wiki rules.
According to the satirical YouTube video’s description, the WikiWarrior “requires mental focus, precise clicking, a surprisingly large need for a knowledge of geography, & the ability to not start hyperventilating.”
(H/T GeekOSystem)
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MR_ANDERSON
Posted on June 16, 2012 at 9:50amThis doesn’t have anything on the Google Game!
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on June 16, 2012 at 7:26amOK, try this:
Starting point “Obama”, end point “Communist”.
It’s startling how fast you get there.
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on June 16, 2012 at 9:59amNo, you’re missing the point of the game. The start point and the end point have to be different.
Report Post »ChrisTex
Posted on June 16, 2012 at 10:00pm@Xyskalla
Reply of the day, well done
Report Post »William35
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:46amisnt tht on the same page?
Report Post »Obamammy
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 12:34pmThey are using Apple computers and racing around on Wikipedia.
It doesn’t get any gayer than that.
Report Post »Face...Palm
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 3:09pmThey aren’t even using a real mouse…..
Report Post »Blazen420
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 12:06pmFreak’n dorks!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 11:57amWIKI-a propaganda site and a way for progressives to control information for those who don’t know better.
Report Post »mullet
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 1:20pmActually, according to Wikipeida, “A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.”
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 3:48pm@ Mullet
Thank you for the textbook definition of a Wiki. Unfortunately, we live in the real world, not a textbook.
Anything that can be freely edited is subject to being hijacked by Proggies and Libbies, since they cannot create content and stand on their own merits. The only way for people to subscribe to their ration of Bullsj1t is to dominate the data stream, since given a clear path out most rational persons will take that clear path out instead of holding position in the swamplands of history.
Report Post »SLOWBIDEN
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 10:54amThat’s the gayest thing I have ever heard.
Report Post »Benjamin Abruzzo
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 3:35pmThere are gayer things… Like two men haveing sex is much gayer than wasting time on tis endeavor, which might actually help slow down the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease by enganging the brain in a mentl exercise.
I find the act of a group of men going out into the woods and all sleeping together in tents a “gayer” act than working a person’s mind on randon acts of thinking.
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