On 8/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)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.
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Alphax -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax
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.
~maru