Wikipedia talk:Wiki Game

message: I do believe "fuck" found in the sixth sentence of "The Wikipedia Game" subsection in the "Websites for Wikiracing" section is a minor grammatical error. As a result, I do suggest a registered editor to fix the issue.
Thanks, 
Not-exactly-articulate (talk) 04:17, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor issue 

message: I been playing the game on the computer in my school (which is good) some of the links when i click comes up with a download box i.e. asks you to download a random file. is it possible to add a section stating the exceptions at last resort this would sort out dead links.
there is one occasion where i have technically won but the links do not match this is because the end target article is KBIZ but on the ottumwa, iowa it gave me the red-linkKBIZ-AM as you can see it doesn't. do i still win?
--Antelope (talk) 15:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules are too stringent 

message: In college, we'd have contests to see who could get from, say, disney.com to *ahem* inappropriate content the quickest, and with the fewest clicks.  If I recall correctly, somebody was able to go from disney.com to playboy.com in something like 4 clicks.  With the same idea, you could just select two random wiki pages and have a contest to get from one to the other (thus avoiding getting a 3rd party to click 10 links and clearing the browser history).  That would be challenging but sometimes impossible (i really wonder how often - I bet less often than you'd expect).  Would be easier to run that one as a timed event instead of a number of clicks.  --Drue 21:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations 

message: Isn't this exactly like Wikipedia:N degrees of separation? Jaberwocky6669 19:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No.  N-degrees is a quasi-study.  This is a competitive game, purely for shits and giggles. -  Che Nuevara:  Join the Revolution 16:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: N Degrees of separation

message: For example: 
:This article about articles is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Are you allowed to click on the link Articles?--75.37.84.30 03:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  stub templates 

message: This is weird; my friends and I have been playing this for about two years now.  We once had a tournament in a computer lab.
Here are our rules for advanced play:
1. No Keyboard use allowed (esp. CTRL+F or editing a page)
2. No Backtracking
3. No Nations or Continents
4. No Years (e.g. 1986)
5. If you click to a dead end you lose.
6. The winner is the first to find the end site, not the fewest clicks. 
7. The start and goal pages are made by two seperate competitors in silence, and their choices are disclosed simultaneously.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amiaheroyet (talk • contribs) 10:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[California State University, Fullerton]] & [[University of California, Irvine]] Version

message: I independently conceived of The Wikipedia Game in July of 2005 while doing summer research at JPL in a group of undergrads. We would often kill time and procrastinate on analyzing Mars Orbiter Camera images by playing The Game. The article in its present form does not cite the original inventors nor the time of invention at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee. So yeah. If the Vanderbilt Version was conceived before the JPL Version, then I would just like to see a date added. If, however, my JPL Version precedes the Vanderbilt Version then a revision is necessary. Contact me at ckleinastro@gmail.com if you would like more specifics about my inventing The Game. --Added 11/12/08, 2:15 PM PST.
Ditto; me and my friend would play this in I.T. 2005.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.203.93 (talk) 00:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Concept

message: I first heard of this through a Youtube video. I thought that was it. I didn't know it was this known of. Daniel Christensen (talk) 21:49, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Youtube

message: Has anyone clicked the Random article link to find themselves on the article about Jesus anyway? What are the chances of that; 1 in how many? :) --DanzaBarr (talk) 03:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 1 in 55,612,990 HuffGLaDTem (talk) 13:53, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  '5-Clicks-To-Jesus' 

message: I'm doubting the so-called origin of the game, namely the "...Isaac Roxburgh, and some of his lackeys including Nat Corrigan and Lachlan Ray" part. I assume that I am not alone in this? Sp3z1aL (talk) 17:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin? 

message: 82.13.54.212 (talk) 17:42, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: as you have not requested a change.If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 21:39, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 November 2015 

message: Don't have permission to delete or change it, so someone please go ahead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElvisMcTaggert (talk • contribs) 12:47, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto, thank goodness my antivirus blocked it.  Like ElvisMcTaggert, my account is currently too new to edit semi-protected articles, so I'm submitting an edit request.  —CsBlastoise (talk) 20:40, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out that in the time between when I posted the above comment and when I finally got around to acting upon my words, my account had become autoconfirmed, so I was able to perform the edit directly.  The faulty links have now been replaced with web archive links.  —CsBlastoise (talk) 17:38, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First 'Wikipedia maze' link in 'Websites for Wikiracing' links to a Spam-/Phishing-Website 

message: I propose to merge Wikipedia:Wikirace into this page (Wikipedia:Wiki Game). This page was created first, is much better-formatted and explained, and sees consistently 4-5x more pageviews. I think the other article provides a few great additional resource the other one does not have: (1) good target pages, (2) strategies, (3) the title/WP:RACE shortcut, (4) sometimes nicer instructions (not always). I believe by merging the great parts of that article into this one, we could provide one comprehensive resource that best serves the community. What do other editors/watchers of this page think? I've placed a message on the other page's talk page as well to generate the best discussion possible. —Shrinkydinks (talk) 06:40, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The two articles seem to have very similar content and purpose. Just a comment, from my experience, the game is better known as Wikirace so kinda surprised that Wiki Game gets more page views. But I'm sure that isn't a problem a redirect can't solve. Flyme2bluemoon (talk) 22:11, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

text: As well. Lets name the Wiki Game and let the other go. Mitchobrian (talk) 09:38, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

text: I definitely agree a wiki race is just a competitive form of a wiki game and the articles are very similar. The wiki race article should just be added as part of the types of wiki games along with 5 clicks to jesus and the likes. HuffGLaDTem (talk) 13:55, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

text: Agree 83.9.193.123 (talk) 19:59, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

text: I agree that two article with the same goal (clicking on a link to reach the target article) should not exist, they are nearly same with some links to Wikipedia pages. transferring content to Wiki Game from Wikirace would be a good. Rocky 734 (talk) 08:15, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

text: Yeah, it's the same thing. MinecratloVer (talk) 23:23, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

text: I'm a little late. But I agree Eric Anthony Ty (talk) 09:34, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

text: Do merge them together. I guess the "Wiki Game" sounds more popular, however. I would merge the two chunks content and link the bits of content together. Would advise to sandbox the new merged article first, however. No matter how much we would agree with merging the two articles, I still think making the draft of the merge is still very important. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 08:51, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

text: {{Agree}], as both titles mean essentially the same game. Consider even making WP:Wiki Ladders a subsection of the Wikipedia Game. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 15:36, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

text: Please do it! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 02:33, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: My first time of trying this game I got: FROM: Renault D-Type engine, TO: Đông Thái village. Turns out that there were 2 articles for the same village (and various other related errors). In 7 clicks I got to the other article. My target article did not have any links from actual articles. FrankSier (talk) 21:52, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  First go at this game I got a probably impossible target 

message: Here’s stuck in a looks with natural science and types of science 2A00:23C4:121A:6101:425:EAA:E555:C114 (talk) 18:32, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh ironic this page doesn’t lead to philosophy 

message: i want to edit to make wikipedia beter Davidjepedr (talk) 12:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Liu1126 (talk) 13:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 November 2023 

message: Do this is right and do that is wrong
Do this kiss ur man do that jump off a building. 207.204.103.39 (talk) 16:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do this, Do that