Wikipedia talk:Wikirace

message: Is it allowed to use category pages? It seems like a cheap trick to me, and is a subject of constant debate among the Wikiracers of my region. ChaseU 05:16 15 January 2006 (UTC)
:I was going to ask the same question. Are category pages allowed? -- penubag  (talk) 16:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories

message: The page says Hello Kitty is the only wikirace never finished. I did one by myself and made it from Cat to Hello Kitty.
:I was actually wondering about that statement myself--it's definately possible. I'll correct the artcile now. authraw 22:15, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally use Japanese culture-kawaii-hello kitty72.139.184.107 13:45, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Bah. Got from Mornington Crescent tube station to Hello Kitty in about seven steps. BCube|c|t 03:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was probably hard to get to the Hello Kitty page then (2-3 years ago). There's more links to it now though. -Deceased 15:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hello Kitty

message: I think we should add userpages not allowed. --GeorgeMoneyTalk  Contribs 04:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea, it'd be to easy for people to link ridiculous things to cheat there. Tyciol (talk) 01:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

text: —Shrinkydinks (talk) 05:04, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: User pages

message: The end of the article is becoming like a list of schools who enjoy wikiracing! Surely there are too many to list? -Unsigned
:This was independently invented by a friend of mine, and no doubt by dozens or hundreds of others, so I think I'll change the last bit. (I ended up deleting it, for lack of anything to replace it with. Attributing something like this to a single inventor is meaningless.)[User:130.36.87.102|130.36.87.102]] 13:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Schools

message: "www.goatse.cx- accessible by going to any country, Internet TLD, .cx, goatse.cx. almost any sexually explicit site can be got to thus."  << this doen't fit here?! --84.115.136.73 23:10, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Goatse.cx

message: Can you look at your destination page up at the same time when doing the race? I invented a game thats almost exactly the same as wikirace with my friends and we always said that you couldn't but I'm not exactly the authority.Nathan Wonnacott 20:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: End page

message: Was there ever an official creator of Wikiracing? And, even if someone invited the term, I'm sure the idea existed before then. It's a game as old as wikipedia itself, and I doubt a real official "creator" exists. Certainly, the game isn't as new as 2006. People have played this game long before that. Admittedly I've heard "The Wikipedia Game" more than wikiracing, but it's essentially the same concept. -Unsigned
:"It is said that 'The Wikirace' was founded by a two students at Bicentennial Junior High and many of the rules were also made by them." I don't agree with the previous quote so I removed it from the page. Like the above person stated, the game wasn't really invented by anyone. Deceased 14:04, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Creator

message: Are you allowed to use them? -Unsigned
:Generally not. S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s (Talk to Me) 02:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It says on the page portals are allowed, but I'm not sure about categories -- penubag  (talk) 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Portals/Categories

message: *Utility pole 
**Maine>Maple Syrup>Utility Pole
*Preparation H
**Many pages link to Wyeth. New Jersey>Wyeth>Preparation H
*Hot Pockets
**Not too hard:Pizza>Pizza Pockets>Hot Pockets
**The above doesn't work as of May 2020 (Pizza Pockets no longer exists). I've found it from Microwave oven>Hot pockets and from Sandwich>List of sandwiches>Hot Pockets. If you know it's made by Nestlé you can go that route, too. —Shrinkydinks (talk) 05:23, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Assistance

message: The article Keyhole rediects to keyway, also keyway has replaced almost all links that said keyhole. Not knowing this caused me to take 7 steps instead of 6, thus I am replacing the word keyhole with keyway in the list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akjar13 (talk • contribs) 12:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keyhole/way 

message: I got there with Jesus Christ > Issac Newton > Albert Einstein > United States > Fast food > Fast food restaurant > Subway (restaurant). Did anybody do it faster. I was just wondering because it was an example on the page. JHUbal27•Talk•E-mail 05:52, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Has anybody gotten from [[Jesus Christ]] to [[Subway (restaurant)]]?

message: Hi, I was wondering why there were two categories, "online race tracks" and "wikiracing websites". They seem to cover the same information but slightly differently worded. Perhaps one should be deleted?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abuck97 (talk • contribs) 04:56, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Categories for same thing. 

message: Is there some website that allows you too solve a wikirace, given two random targets, somewhat like a crossword solver? I'm just wondering. --- TheChampionMan1234 03:54, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a few, but none of them work, I was able to find WikiDistrict which is the only one that works AFAIK. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 06:55, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, it doesn't always work either, I tried Mao Zedong to Windows XP and it did work. But from Mao Zedong to Technical support scam it gives the error "Path not found". http://beta.degreesofwikipedia.com I found before, but it works only 10-20% of the time. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 07:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha, I tried degreesofwikipedia.com again and it did work from Mao Zedong to Technical support scam. I am yet to encounter one that works 100% of the time, so it gave me this (compare to ):
Array
(
    [maozedong] => Mao_Zedong
    [johnmccain] => John_McCain
    [shill] => Shill
    [technicalsupportscam] => Technical_support_scam
)
- Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 07:04, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solver 

message: Why does Wikipedia have this article, in addition to Wikiracing and Wikipedia:Wiki Game?
All three seem to cover the same topic. AJLooMNoS (talk) 15:33, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicates 

message: Citation?
Blackdiamand (talk) 00:09, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiraces are common in classroom environments in which kids are bored. 

message: I got to Franz Ferdinand from USA in 3 clicks USA>Federal Republic>Austria>Franz Ferdinand. Should we remove it from the list? Əntitled (talk) 03:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Franz Ferdinand 

message: yay! Elitemagikarp (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:53, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  I got to this page! 

message: If Dab (dance) is "impossible", THEN GET TO THE NON-TALK PAGE HERE, AND CLICK Dab (dance)!
Maxio68 (talk) 02:11, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objection! 

message: The tracker Wikispeedia don't work with any article with special characters in the title (ie: Cú Chulainn, How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?). Aramati, the llama 00:55, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tracker limitation 

message: I propose to merge this page (Wikipedia:Wikirace) into Wikipedia:Wiki Game. The other page was created first, is much better-formatted and explained, and sees consistently 4-5x more pageviews. I think this 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 better instructions decomposition. I believe by merging the great parts of this article into the other, we could provide one comprehensive resource that best serves the community. What do other editors/watchers of this page think?
Please come discuss on the other page's talk page (per etiquette outlined in WP:MERGEPROP). —Shrinkydinks (talk) 06:35, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Proposal 

message: I can easily get to it through any Japan path. Ocumal District > Peru > Developing country > China > Empire of Japan > Japan > Video games in Japan > Pokemon
Should it be removed from the list? Brotato The Great (talk) 16:50, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pokemon Is Too Easy 

message: Chelsea 151.34.64.29 (talk) 22:36, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olimpiadi 

message: how do I upload the video of me completing the 20th ever wikirace to Wikipedia:Wikirace Monkegaming123 (talk) 22:24, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help 

message: Well, I finally did it, and I did it by getting to the author of the first encyclopedia, Pliny the Elder!
Completed by TooManyClicks on 11/10/2023 
My full route was:
 School colors > University of Oxford > Augustinians > Rule of Saint Augustine > Augustine of Hippo > Catholic Church > Christianity as the Roman state religion > Roman Empire > Pliny the Younger > Pliny the Elder > Natural History (Pliny) > Encyclopedia > Wikipedia > Wikipedia in Culture > Wikiracing > Wikipedia: Wikirace
--TooManyClicks (talk) 09:19, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Successfully made it to [[Wikipedia:Wikirace]]! 

message: Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 18:35, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to [[Wikipedia:Wiki Game]]