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Tim Starling wrote:
I like the games, personally. A long time ago, I considered writing a special games extension for MediaWiki, for the purposes of encouraging social interaction and community building. I didn't get around to it, but I'm happy that it happened anyway. Of course it would be better if it was on a separate wiki, and I'd be happy to set up such a wiki on the Wikimedia servers, if the community is in favour. Perhaps it could be in a subdirectory.
Actually, some of the more "fun" activities/games (eg. N degrees of seperation, Wikifun, etc.) are quite useful - people involved go through articles, often improving them on the way.
The problem with putting it on wikicities is mostly psychological. It's on the wrong side of the virtual boundary which surrounds our homey little region of cyberspace. I know some people *want* it outside the boundary, I would ask them to be tolerant.
Alternatively, limit it to user subpages :)
It would be outside our mission to offer these games to anyone other than Wikipedia editors. I wouldn't want to see it become an independently advertised Wikimedia project. We can put up barriers to entry which discourage outsiders, for example requiring a Wikipedia account. The user interface is probably the biggest barrier -- honestly, who would play chess on a wiki other than a Wikipedian? It's very quaint.
Yep, absolutely. Again, moving it into user sub-pages (or an obscure part of the Wikipedia namespace, using templates, tables, piped links, math markup, and other bits of obscure wiki-markup) would solve part of this problem.
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