Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/12/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
But we here are fans of wikis, good ol' Web 2.0, the RW web. Why not apply these ideas to Wikipedia? Disambiguations are one possibility; categorization is another; image tagging or pace ESP Game, descriptions (I know we have to have a bunch of images on en or
I think there's definitely scope for something like that there. I recently saw a demo of this website "Facebook", a socialising tool for US college students and was blown away by how information-rich it was, and how many endless opportunities there were for users to just "add information". One person would label an image with 3 names, and 2 blanks, someone else could correct one of the 3, and add 2 more etc. People could constantly find friends that they had in common with others etc, and the wealth of information there was amazing.
Gargh, Facebook is both old (we used to use it for meetups) and evil (it's been taken over by commerical interests and is now completely useless).
Granted, an encyclopaedia isn't quite as exciting as building a social network, but a lot of people (like me) enjoy the basic process of categorising, organising, structuring and so forth. If we could come up with some fun tools to make this easier (like Catscan, but integrated into Wikipedia, and made even faster and more powerful), there could be a lot of benefit.
Fun? You're not allowed to have /fun/. Having fun results in making uniforms, badges, stickers, awards, ranks, logos, and "cool" names for yourself like "Idiot Counter Unit".
How would you make it a game, though? Do you have any ideas? Can we adapt kittenfight.com? :)
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.