[WikiEN-l] Playing Wikipedia

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 16:47:36 UTC 2007


On 13/01/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:

> 'I recall a blog post about people who were "playing wikipedia" as a game. Much
> like trolls feed off forum flamewars, they fed off engaging in wiki-politics, powertrips
> and drama.'


Wikipedia is the finest free MMORPG available. I'd rename it "Zeroth
Life" but I think that's IRC.

* You have fallen into a Gdanzskig trap
* The troll hits!
* The troll hits!
* You take one point to your credibility
> strike
* You strike!
* You defeat the troll!
* The good version stays
* You have leveled up to Admin


- d.



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