Comments on: Quizipedia. A web quiz game using Wikipedia content

By: K

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:56:21 +0000

I am curious about the popularity of this game - do you get a lot of visitors?
Thanks

By: cheshirepuss

cheshirepuss — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:28:34 +0000

Nice idea! I also made a small flash-game, which uses the wikimedia api. It works great, but it would be nice if I could somehow make use of categories instead of just random concepts.
It’s WikiWords. The object is click away the non-related concepts in time.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:50:17 +0000

The last two correct answers seem to always been in reverse alphabetical order, e.g. Republic then Baseball, Kosovo then Christianity, etc.
What could be done to improve the randomness of questions?

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By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:23 +0000

(categories = multiple choice answers, that is)

By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:43:46 +0000

My friend and I created a game based on this idea back in 2005. We called it Wikitrivia and it can be found at http://www.wikitrivia.net/ — we use an input form where the first letter is provided instead of categories though. Good luck with your game, guess the idea is in the air!

By: dogma00

dogma00 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:22:42 +0000

“The design I chose was to challenge the player to match ten random article names (on the left) against the subject description from the article (on the right).”

Ehm, isn’t the subject description on the left and article names on the right?

Anyway, cool quiz! :)

By: agargara

agargara — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:03:45 +0000

Oh, I should add that I thought the multiple-choice format was a good choice, since it often helps players get around the ambiguity I mentioned.

By: agargara

agargara — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:02:36 +0000

Excellent implementation of a good idea! I especially like the way you implemented the “alternatives”, it makes it more challenging.

A couple things struck me while playing a few rounds:

- Sometimes the answer is made patently obvious in the question, such as when it gives a pronunciation guide for the word, or when it gives a reordering of a multiple word answer. The latter cases are probably too varied to easily detect, but you could probably detect pronunciation guides fairly easily and just get rid of them.

- Sometimes there is too much ambiguity, example:
“_______ is an American actor of stage and screen.”
I can’t think of a creative way to detect cases like these besides ignoring first sentences that are shorter than a certain amount of characters. But even that wouldn’t be very reliable.

Anyway, great work, it’s a fun time-waster!