Wiki Race

Posted on By Anne-Marie Scott

How are different types of Wikipedia articles structured, and how does Wikipedia link together?

Wiki Race challenges players to get from one article to another in the shortest time using only links within pages.

The Rules

  • Use only the body of the text and Info-boxes (no Categories)
  • You can use Back and Ctrl + F (to find text on a page)
  • No editing!

Target: 2 clicks

Donald Trump

World War III
By Michael Vadon (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Target: 3 clicks

Sloth

Franz Kafka

By Atelier Jacobi: Sigismund Jacobi (1860–1935) – http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_july_02, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4300462

Target: 5 clicks

Edinburgh

Dunedin
By Ammienoot (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By huhnbeauftragter (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

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