[WikiEN-l] Future avenues of garnering participation; or, How Wikipedia is currently a crappy/crack-tastic game

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

maru dubshinki wrote:
> On 8/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at 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]].

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