Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/12/06, maru dubshinki
<marudubshinki(a)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.
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