maru dubshinki wrote:
On 8/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote: ...
I heard there's a really fun game you can play on Wikipedia already - vandalise something and wait to see how long (if ever) it takes for someone to fix it!
In all seriousness, "offically" turning Wikipedia into a game is a Bad Idea, because too many people already think that it is, for all the wrong reasons. They seem to forget that we're meant to be writing the world's most comprehensive, and better yet, FREE (as in Speech) Encyclopedia. WP:NOT a game.
Well, I was trying for a funny conclusion there. I doubt we could turn *all* of Wikipedia into a game - how would that even work, anyway? You'd have people presented random paragraphs and asked where the error is (in some cases added by computer, and in some cases not)? That's the best I can come up with anyway, although it might be interesting to have competitive article writing-based games - but rather that we might as well formalize some otherwise tedious and repetitve aspects of Wikipedia that do need to get done and put them in game form so they can get done and free up editor effort for more worthwhile things like writing new articles or rewriting old ones.
Oh, people have certainly made games out of Wikipedia; see [[Category:Wikipedia games]].